https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I gave up

    These are all different kinds of sandwich. Like yeah a sub and a hoagie are vaguely the same thing, but if you get a hoagie in Philly it's not going to look like a sub anywhere else. A lot of these questions are a weird. If I'm on the turnpike I call it the turnpike. If I'm not on the turnpike it's not a turnpike, is it? There are like fifteen different names for mountain lions and I use most of them. I don't know how to answer a lot of these questions because I use a bunch of different terms interchangeably.

    On reflection, though, i guess that makes some kind of sense, because I've been everywhere and lived in pretty much every region of the US except the Deep South and the scary part between Seattle and Minnesota.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The mountain lion one pissed me off, like I figured they were talking about mountain lions, but there were several real North American wildcats on that list. We have panthers!

      • gobble_ghoul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The problem with "panther" is it refers to a bunch of different cat species.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I thought the bread question was weird cause we call the bread a hero. It’s called a sub when the sandwich shop isnt around here, and a hoagie when some one brings it from Philly. No one calls it a grinder