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What's Your Regional Dialect?

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Published Feb 28, 2017

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Hey, you guys. Translation: Hey, y’all, you all, yins or youse. Yep, there are plenty of totally acceptable ways to say the same thing in this country. And based on you how you say them, we can probably guess where you're from. Take our quiz to see if we're right.

1. What Do You Call The Shoes You Wear To Work Out?

Sneakers

Gym shoes

Tennis shoes

Running shoes

2. How Do You Pronounce “syrup”?

Sir-up

Seer-up

3. What Do You Call A Delicious Carbonated Beverage?

Soda

Pop

Coke

Soft drink

4. And That Thing That Spurts Out Water For You To Drink?

Drinking fountain

Bubbler

Water fountain

5. When You Order In Food, It’s Called ________.

Takeout

Carryout

6. You Buy These, Dried Usually, At Trader Joe’s, And You Call Them:

App-ricots

Ape-ricots

7. You Can’t Arrest Me! I’m Calling My ________!

Loy-er

Law-yer

8. Something You Might’ve Heard On The Road Growing Up:

That big rig on the freeway is blocking traffic.

There’s an 18-wheeler parked near the beer barn.

That truck accident is causing some rubbernecking.

That semi’s causing gapers’ block on the highway.

9. And Those Circle Road Thingys Are ________.

Roundabouts

Rotaries

Traffic circles

10. What Do You Call Paper You’re About To Toss?

Scratch paper

Scrap paper

11. Raining While It’s Sunny Out Is A ________.

Sunshower

The devil beating his wife (yeah…)

I don’t really call it anything

12. That Little Bug That Can Fold Into A Ball?

Roly-poly

Doodlebug

Potato bug

Pill bug

13. And Those Other Bugs That Light Up?

Fireflies

Lightning bugs

14. “cot” And “caught” Are Pronounced The Same.

True

False

15. And Finally, How Would Do Pronounce “route”?

Rout

Root

Dara Katz

Executive Editor

Lifestyle editor and writer with a knack for long-form pieces
Has more than a decade of experience in digital media and lifestyle content on the page, podcast and on-camera
Studied English at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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