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#NEW YORK TIMES REGIONAL DIALECT QUIZ DRIVER#

What do you call a narrow street or passageway between or behind buildings?.What do you call this large aquatic bug that skims along the surface of water?.What do you call food purchased at a restaurant to be eaten elsewhere?.What do you call an artificial nipple, usually made of plastic, which an infant can suck or chew on?.

#NEW YORK TIMES REGIONAL DIALECT QUIZ DRIVER#

What do you call an automobile transmission system in which gears are selected by the driver by means of a hand-operated gearshift and a foot-operated clutch?.What do you call the auxiliary brake that's attached to a rear wheel or the transmission and keeps the car from moving accidentally?.What do you call a room equipped with toilets and lavatories for public use?.What do you a call a store that is devoted primarily to selling alcoholic beverages?.What do you call an upholstered seat for more than one person?.If you decide to go to the opening night of Tom Cruise's new film, you may have to wait:.

What do you call the meal you eat in the evening, normally somewhere between 5 and 10 PM?.

How do you pronounce, as in "Abbas was a famous Shah of Iran"?.

If you feel sort of blah (in other words, a bit depressed, tired, uninspired, etc.), could you say you feel:.

How do you pronounce and, as in "I enjoying sawing wood" and "she saw it"?.

Do you pronounce r's when they aren't followed by a vowel, as in car, cart, carton, and so on?.

What do you call a traffic intersection in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?.

What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the grocery store or supermarket?.

What is your preferred general and casual term for a sale of your unwanted items (which may be held on your porch, in your yard, garden, or house, from the back of your car, etc.)?.

How do you pronounce the vowel sound in the word ('parent's sister')?.

What do you call the gooey or dry matter that collects in the corners of your eyes, especially while you are sleeping?.

What do you call the kind of rain that falls while the sun is shining?.

What do you call the little gray (or black or brown) creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?.

What word(s) do you use in casual speech to address a group of two or more people?.What do you call the kind of crustacean that looks like a tiny lobster and lives in lakes and streams?.What is your general, informal term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?.What is your generic casual or informal term for a sweetened carbonated beverage? (As in: "We have milk, beer, apple juice, and four kinds of _: Pepsi, 7Up, root beer, and ginger ale.") If you use more than one in your informal speech, check all of them here.(Don't include terms that aren't in your natural vocabulary but that you might use to accommodate someone who you think uses a different form.) What do you call the long cold sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on? Select all terms that you might actually use.Survey you should be able to find your own response on the map in a little while! The maps are regenerated periodically so if you have just taken the These are the results from all current and previous dialect surveys conductedĬlick on a question for details and a map with all the results.