What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
  • Alice@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 days ago

    The one about it raining when the sun is out is a trick question. It’s definitely called “the devil beating his wife”, but I don’t call it that because that’s weird

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 days ago

    I’ve always wondered why y’uys didn’t become a thing where people say you guys. I grew up with y’all. It’s efficient and inclusive which is added bonus and ironic coming from the south

    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
      27·
      3 days ago

      I grew up around Seattle and also with y’all.

      Of course, a lot of people say ‘you guys’ and either don’t care or have decided that it’s gender non deterministic because ya’ll is cringe and racist-coded.

      Never even heard of y’uys.

      Would that be pronounced Yaiz?

      ???

      Anyway, half of those questions I could have answered with half of the options given, as they’re all common enough that most people either know what they mean or use them… and then the other half of the questions were basically just one answer.

      EDIT: If anyone cares, easiest way in the world to tell someone is a California transplant is that they say ‘the 5’, not ‘I-5’. That is, for the ones who aren’t always telling you they are from California.

      EDIT 2: Is there some kind of map of where Americans do and do not raise the pitch of the last word or syllable in a sentence? You know, that makes it sound like a statement is actually a question?

      Its that weird tonal pattern that I have always found indicates a person is self centered and sheltered. I’ve known it as ‘Valley Girl Accent’ since I was a kid, and it only seems to be spreading.

      Apparently its called ‘High Rising Tone’?

    • rozwud@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 hours ago

      My mom grew up in the rural outskirts of Cincinnati and says youse. Meanwhile my dad, who grew up more inside the city, constantly made fun of her for it.

      I got Cincinnati and two random places I’ve never even visited as my top three results, probably because my way of speaking is a super mixed bag from living in different places. Language is weird.

    • Alice@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, mainly in the northeast. I’m in the southeast and I basically only hear it from cartoon mobsters.

      Surprised it’s not more widespread, actually. It seems like the easiest way to pluralize “you”.