Your Dialect Quiz (NYT)

This is nothing new, but I found it delightful after hearing about it on Upgrade. You answer 25ish questions about how you pronounce words or specify a regionalism (“soda” vs “pop,” for example), and the quiz guesses where you’re from. Fun.

My Quiz Results
My Quiz Results

One of my favorite questions asked about “dinner” vs “supper.” I wanted to choose multiple responses; ultimately I went with them meaning the same thing, but another choice was that I didn’t use the word “supper,” which is absolutely true. My paternal grandparents were the only people I knew who used that word instead of “dinner,” but I had heard it plenty of times and it was equivalent in usage.

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