Surveys/Polls/Quizzes
1/29/25 How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk - New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?searchResultPosition=1 The survey I took was related to how different regions in the US have different dialects/use different words to communicate commonly understood terms. Terms such as rotary vs roundabout, lightning bug vs firefly, and many other typical phrases are formatted in a 25-question questionnaire. Shown above are my results, which were fairly accurate in identifying me as someone native to the west coast. (although it did guess California, where I am actually from Oregon). To compare my results to a larger body of work, I asked my 2 roommates, as well as my 3 family members to all take the survey. I felt this was a great source of data, as between the 5 people I surveyed, only 1 came from the same region (which was my sister, who grew up with me in Oregon). The most accurate of the survey results was my roommate from Boston, as his r...
