I grew up in New York City. Bingo!
Since it gives you three cities, it threw in nearby Yonkers (where true love conquers all, they say), and Newark/Paterson NJ (where?).
If it were a little more fine-grained, it might have said Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, and been right on all three.
Since the quiz is present tense, I answered with what I say now, e.g. freeway rather than parkway,. Guess I say it with a New York accent.
The quiz placed me in St. Louis, which Iâve never been near. However, I regularly test about 40 years older than my actual age (probably from words like âice boxâ instead of âfridgeâ) due to growing upon a small Texas community where everybodyâs first language was German.
I live in Washington, and usually call them âBig Kittiesâ, in familiar company. I call them cougars in unfamiliar company.
Also, the map thought Sacramento was a good guess for me because Iâve never heard of a drive-through liquor store. As far as I can tell, Washington doesnât have them either, and furthermore the mind baffles at the very idea that it possibly could be legal to sell liquor in a drive through.
Window Attendant: Okay, Iâm going to hand you your bottle of Jack Daniels. Now you gotta promise me you wonât open it till you get home.
Driver: Looks the attendant in the eye as he slowly unscrews the bottle and drinks half of it, then drives away.
Funny, I grew up in the Seattle area, as did my parents, and they say âKaty-Wampusâ, but it means inside-out, upside-down, both simultaneously, or generally tangled. Wearing your socks on your hands and your pants on your head is katy-wampus.
They nailed me. My map had three places on it. Baton Rouge (lived there in second and third grade), New Orleans (lived there the rest of the time until I escaped at the age of 19) and Winston Salem (where I was born and where my mom is from). I am in my sixties so I am less pasteurized and homogenized than the younger ones so this might be why my accent(s) are more pronounced. No pun intended.
I love speech and dialects.
OMFG, I said the same thing. âIt nailed me.â I am from New Orleans. Geez.
Said Iâm from Buffalo ⌠and, sure enough, I am from Buffalo. (we walk on sneakers)
You are from everywhere. Or your parents are.
Yes - same as katty-corner, but with the overtone of being way more messed up.
I have some younger cousins up there whose grandparents were from that area on the Gulf Coast, though. I imagine a little of their grandparentsâ speech at home has rubbed off on them. Possible your parents picked it up from their parents or something like that?
So then the next question is, was it because you got the Canuck thing (hanging aboot your hoos), or the Nordic thing going on (drivinâ yer care on the highwee)?
Iâm not sure. My momâs side are all Norwegian immigrants who came directly to Stanwood Washington in the mid 1800s. My paternal grandfather grew up in New York, (his family are descendants of Louis DuBois, a French-Dutch Huguenot, and one of the founders of New Paltz), and my paternal grandmother was born and grew up in Washington. Her parents emmigrated from the south during the great depression. Iâm not sure what came from where, but I know that I say âSodaâ or âSoft drinkâ when Washington is supposed to be âpopâ country.
I also have a few Norwegian and Swedish words and phrases (more than likely horribly butchered) that I picked up from my mom, who learned them from her grandmother, mother, and cousins.
Then thereâs a whole family idiolect that we use privately, but less so since my brother and I grew up.
Iâve got wudder real bad even tho Iâve been in Pacific Northwest 33 years.
My wudder comes from Bawlmer Murlan (Baltimore Maryland). I can hear Bawlmerese within 2 seconds but am still impressed that the survey did it in 25 questions.
Does your wudder come with warsh?
Iâm from Stockton, but couldnât nail Stockton in the quiz⌠only got as close as Fresno. But I did also match Aurora, CO, so I wonder what the commonality is.
Weird. Born & raised in Toronto.
The three cities they connected me to:
Boston, Spokane & Tacoma. Two on the west coast & one on the eastâŚbut all close to the border, more or less.
Wish they would do one for CanadaâŚwe have some very cool differences across the country.
born and reared in central texas with a two year hiatus in estes park, colorado during my early 30s. 52 years iâve been alive and for whatever reason the three cities most similar to me are oklahoma city, new orleans, and new york city? very odd. either iâm confused, the site is confused, or both.at least the least similar cities made sense-- salt lake city, worcester, and pittsburgh.
I dunno, only part of Florida Iâve spent much time in was north, and most of the rain there was the torrential downpours that start like clockwork at 3:00pm and end an hour or two later in the summer.
For the sunshower question, the map the quiz gave me showed Florida as mostly red at the south end and fading to yellow moving north, with the north edge blue.
Iâll use âkitty-cornerâ and âcatty-cornerâ pretty much interchangeably as being diagonal, though I donât think Iâve ever used them as a pointer to a location like in the quiz⌠more as a description to how a thing is oriented. Katy-wumpus always seemed to be something thatâs generally messed up, though, without any real relation to diagonals.
one imagines that the Devil would habitually beat his wife, though. heâs the Devil. The Prince of Darkness. because heâs evil incarnate, there should be rain combined with sunshine as a daily event, right?
It thinks Iâm from Baton Rouge, Jackson, or Montgomery. I am actually from the north central part of Texas. However, my family had lived in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas for over 100 years until my grandparents moved to Texas, so maybe that explains it.
