NY Times vocabulary quiz determines where you are from

Here’s mine:

Like the other North-West European Islanders in the thread, It thought I was an odd Hawaii-California hybrid.

Which was surprising, because as soon as it gave me “Lorry”, “Car Boot Sale” and “Trainers” as options, I had expected the quiz to notice how blatantly non-American I was.

As to the result, I wonder what direction the Californian connection to my vocabulary runs? Have I picked up some terminology from US entertainment which is based there, or have we exported our idioms there?

And I haven’t got a clue what’s going on in central Wisconsin.

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