Actually I don't call it anything, since I never have had occasion to refer to itbut I know it as some sort of southern thing that I associate with southern words. (My 3 most likely cities were, interestingly, Tallahassee, Lexington KY, and Columbus GA.). about your participation, or report illness, injury or other problems, You can read more about Josh Katz's project to determine "aggregate dialect difference" from Vaux and Golder's survey data on his website. at questions@projectimplicit.net. What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point? There are a bunch of quizzes out there that purport to tell you what American dialect you speak. The questions in Katz's quiz were based on a larger research project called the Harvard Dialect Survey, published in 2003 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder from Harvard's Linguistics Department (you can find a good interview with Vaux on NPR here). Its foundation was the supervised machine learning algorithm K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN), which is, as my graduate-school TA told us, a machine learning algorithm used to predict the class of a new datapoint based on the value of the points around it in parameter space. We will dive into the idea of machine learning and the ins and outs of the specific K-NN algorithm in a later post. Reporting on what you care about. Participant Data (and map of all participants) Breakdown by State 1.aunt 2.been 3.the first vowel in "Bowie knife" 4.caramel 5.the vowel in the second syllable of "cauliflower" 6.the last vowel in "centaur" 7 . And, out of curiosity, what results are people for whom English is a second language getting? The data for the quiz and maps shown here come from over 350,000 survey responses collected from August to October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for the New York Times who developed this quiz. Surely Halloween is the night before All Hallows' Day. Something for everyone interested in hair, makeup, style, and body positivity. as a full sentence, to mean "Are you coming with us? We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. After answering 25 questions aimed at teasing out your linguistic idiosyncrasies, you were classified as having grown up in a particular area of the US (technically, the quiz shows you the region where people are most likely to speak like you, so it could ostensibly show you where your parents grew up, rather than where you grew up, as Ryan Graff points out). Share This Article Want to get your very own . freakishly accurate for us. Note: This site is designed for adults, aged 18 or older. Does that make me part New Englander?