Go to the New York Times dialect quiz, take it, and answer the questions below.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0
1. What is your pattern of dialect? Does it accurately represent where you are from or where you learned to speak English?
2. What items/answers on the quiz had you never heard of before?
3. Where there any questions on the quiz that you weren't sure of the answer to? Which ones? Why do you think that might be the case?
4. Some of the questions have to do with pronunciation - what are some of the different pronunciations that exist in different regional American dialects? Using the examples from the quiz - do these have more to do with vowels or consonants? Why do you think that might
be the case?
5. What other words or phrases are used or pronounced differently in different areas of the U.S.? OR...if English is not your first language, what are some words or phrases that are used or pronounced differently in different dialects of your native language?