Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. The Man Behind The Dialect Quiz With just 11 days before the end of 2013, ...

What do you call that carbonated flavored drink that comes out of a fountain at fast food restaurants? Pop; soda; seltzer? Well, depending on what you say can determine where you are from. That is the ...

Do you call your mother’s sister “ant” or your “ont?” A popular quiz created by the New York Times guesses where you’re from in the country, based on your dialect. Cornell University sociologist Scott ...

What do you call your grandmother? Do the words but and put rhyme? Would you eat a bread roll, a bap, a bun or a cob? “There are a lot of distinct dialects in the UK for a small land mass,” says ...

Bert Vaux’s dialect survey is endlessly fascinating, prompting thousands of folks to figure out which American dialect they speak. This video mixes audio of people taking the survey with Joshua Katz’s ...

Earlier in the year Joshua Katz, an intern with the New York Times' graphics team and a statistician at North Carolina State University, started an online survey looking at Americans' regional ...

When was the last time you wore a raddy-doo? What about a bicker-bock? The answer to the first question probably depends on how fashionable you are, because in the traditional Holderness dialect, a ...

Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. A Closer Look At The New York Times Dialect Quiz What do you call that ...

With just 11 days before the end of 2013, The New York Times posted a dialect quiz on its website that drew in millions of readers, making it the site’s most popular page for the year. The quiz is ...