About Dialect Quiz

Relative score for this sample, strongest region first (the strongest region is 100). This ranks an answer pattern; it is not a probability and not a share of the population.

• Northeast 100
• New England 74
• Southern 61
• Midwest 52
• Texas 45
• West 44
• California 41
• Canada 30

The map is a coarse macro-region view, not a survey boundary. State groupings are this site's own approximation: the eight quiz regions do not map one-to-one onto published dialect areas, every border state is a gradient, and states with heavy migration vary internally.

Canada is drawn as its own geographic inset of the thirteen provinces and territories, at its own scale rather than on the U.S. map, and the inset is an outline of the country rather than a dialect boundary. Texas and California are outlined with a dashed edge to mark where their scores overlap the Southern and Western scores.

Map geometry: Blank US Map (states only) by Heitordp, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (public domain dedication), retrieved 2026-09-28); Canada inset from Natural Earth 1:50m Admin 1 - States and Provinces (Public domain (no permission or attribution required), retrieved 2026-09-28).