I thought this was fairly neat. It asks you what colloquialisms you use and compares that to a nationwide breakdown, and then at the end takes a guess at where you are at in the US. Outside of a couple anomalies (apparently I'm the only person on the West Coast who refers to sneakers as sneakers, and I also learned that I pronounce crayon like a Minnesotan - "Cran"), it was pretty dead on. Said I was most similar to Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Modesto, CA. I grew up a couple hours away from all those spots, my Grandma lived in Sac, and in my adult life I've lived in 2/3 of those places at some time. Give it a try! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
Mine showed Milwaukee, Reno, and Providence. Some of the questions had some answers that I have never heard of or said before. Other than that, Milwaukee isn't that far from where I'm at.
I laughed when I saw 'yinz'. I thought no other questions would be needed to determine someone from Pittsburgh.
Said I was most similar to San Antonio, Atlanta and Fresno. I get the Atlanta and San Antonio but Fresno?
Holy crap! Denver, Des Moines and Overland Park, KS. Born and raised 2 miles from Overland Park and lived there for 5 years.
That's an absolute fact to the tune of 45% of the Fresno population is Hispanic. http://www.clrsearch.com/Fresno-Demographics/CA/Population-by-Race-and-Ethnicity
Took the test again. Three places were Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Ft Wayne. Pretty damn close. Only thing I changed was my answer to the pop question.
I was expecting this test to tell me I'm either from everywhere, or nowhere (because English is not my native language), but no...apparently, I could pass as a Boston resident