Over the long weekend, I completed a New York Times Survey, that takes your pronunciation of words, and specific terms for things like a long sandwich, or the strip of grass in the middle of road, and uses your answers to place you/or where you’re from. Turns out the world I use for something located diagonally across a street, “kitty-corner”, was able to pinpoint me to either Seattle or Tacoma (sadly this was only an American Map).

Take the quiz here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

Also very interesting is the similar vein of research being done at Cambridge that maps all world Englishes. You can contribute your own personal answers, or simply confirm, for example, that ‘washroom’ really is a Canadian thing! See below

http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/

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