Dialect map quiz

[Axver]

Originally Posted by bono_212

I still can't picture in my head a single person saying crayon with two syllables.

I'm baffled how anyone could say it with one syllable! Like to rhyme with "crane"...?

[bono_212]

Cran like cranberry.

[IWasBored]

Weird.

[Axver]

Originally Posted by bono_212

Cran like cranberry.

This is messing with my head even more than the fact Americans don't say "poem" with two syllables.

Also, this silly article popped up on my Facebook feed: 13 Aussie Phrases Americans Should Start Using | Thought Catalog

I find it very hard to believe that the phrase "can't be bothered" does not exist in the States. Also, #5 is wrong. The usual definition of "to suss something out" in my experience is essentially analagous to "figure something out", e.g. "I was confused at first, but then I sussed it out".

[IWasBored]

The phrase can't be bothered is used pretty regularly here. No worries to a degree as well, although I'm suspicious it may have infiltrated my vernacular after hearing it many times at work--the guy from New Zealand says it all the time.

[cobl04]

Originally Posted by bono_212

Cran like cranberry.

What the actual fuck. There's a 'y' and and 'o' in there!

Not a bad list, that, Ax. I'd add "rock up". And "suss it out" is definitely wrong. It's analogous with "check it out". (Although "suss" on its own is short for suspicious.)

[Axver]

Originally Posted by cobl04

Not a bad list, that, Ax. I'd add "rock up". And "suss it out" is definitely wrong. It's analogous with "check it out". (Although "suss" on its own is short for suspicious.)

Is "rock up" particularly Australian? I'd have thought that was more universal. And yeah, "that's pretty suss" is totally different to "suss it out".

Oh, I remember an American once telling me that either "how are you doing?" or "how are you going?" (I forget which one) is not said in the States. Can FYM's Americans clarify, or was this person talking out of their arse?

[cobl04]

It's funny how "how are you going" (which becomes "how ya gahhn") is both a perfectly acceptable question and answer here.

"How ya goin?"
"Yeah how ya goin."

[IWasBored]

Originally Posted by cobl04

It's funny how "how are you going" (which becomes "how ya gahhn") is both a perfectly acceptable question and answer here.

"How ya goin?"
"Yeah how ya goin."

I would take that literally to mean what is your mode of transportation, however I suspect it means something else? Like how's it going? How are you doing?

[cobl04]

I use it instead of "how are you"

[IWasBored]

That's what I thought, we just say it instead of ya/you.

[Galeongirl]

Originally Posted by Axver

No, rhymes with "on", short vowel sound. No "ah", "aw", or "ow"; "dawn" doesn't rhyme with "on" or "crayon" in my accent.

I had the same issue with that question. I have no idea how Americans pronounce crayon But I just say cray on.

[Axver]

Originally Posted by IWasBored

I would take that literally to mean what is your mode of transportation, however I suspect it means something else? Like how's it going? How are you doing?

"How are you", "how's it going", "how's life", etc. are all synonymous really. I think we have pretty much a thousand different ways to ask somebody how they are, to which - as Cobbler notes - it is perfectly acceptable to reply with exactly the same phrase, just with "yeah" at the start.

[KhanadaRhodes]

Originally Posted by bono_212

Frosting and Icing refer to separate things

i answered that too
frosting's far thicker and what most people think of when you think of what goes on a cake, like buttercream, etc. icing is thinner, e.g. royal icing. i got used to calling them those because those are the culinary definitions of the two afaik. so if i heard cake with icing, i'd assume it would have a thin glaze on it and wouldn't be expecting, say, chocolate buttercream, much like i'd give someone a weird look if they said they were frosting their cinnamon rolls.

Originally Posted by cobl04

Same!

i took it again and got baltimore/dc. at least that makes sense as my parents are from that area. i'm sure as hell never going to get memphis (i've fought tooth and nail to not get a memphis accent and i don't say a lot of the terms memphians do), and orlando, where i grew up? i don't even know what that would be. an amalgamation of everywhere else, i guess.

Originally Posted by LemonMelon

Rhymes with "dawn," right? Yeah, that's how I say it as well.

I mean, that's how it's spelled.

yeah, that's how i say it. i had to stop and think as to whether i said it like "ahn" or "awn" but i definitely thought it rhymed with dawn the more i thought about it.

i love these kinds of surveys. this is a lot like a class i took last year, and i find all this stuff fascinating, how you can get 30 people in a room and they all might pronounce the same word differently.

that night before halloween question (i've seen it before in dialect quizzes) always intrigues me. i've only ever called it...october 30th.

[digitize]

Originally Posted by Axver

I find it very hard to believe that the phrase "can't be bothered" does not exist in the States.

That phrase does exist here.

[LemonMelon]

Originally Posted by cobl04

What the actual fuck. There's a 'y' and and 'o' in there!

It's like she's Aussie or something!

[PhilsFan]

This quiz has made me realize that I haven't needed to say the word crayon in like 15 years.

[elevated_u2_fan]

Buffalo/Rochester... Close to Toronto so I guess that works

[bono_212]

http://soundcloud.com/user6242811/cr...araiso-airport

I have no idea why that's my picture on SoundCloud

[LemonMelon]

Any time you're making the argument to pronounce something wrong in order to save milliseconds, well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFiHaMdPPZE