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12-22-2013, 08:34 PM #1
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
Take the quiz. There's no doubt I'm from Joisey.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...me&ref=general
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12-22-2013, 08:58 PM #2Funky But Chic
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Bean 4 Life yo.
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12-22-2013, 09:14 PM #3
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12-22-2013, 09:32 PM #4Funky But Chic
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Kinda weirds me out that almost the whole country thinks Mary, Marry are Merry and pronounced the same. You guys are freaks.
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12-22-2013, 10:12 PM #5Hugh Conway Guest
and it shat the bed predicting me by my accent. not surprising.
the only people i know who call 'em roundabouts are pretending to be english. everyone calls them traffic circles, but most people don't know what the fuck one is so there should be a big "duh" land in flyover country
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12-22-2013, 10:24 PM #6
Full on Mid-Atlantic for me - has me pegged as either B-more, DC, or Richmond.
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12-22-2013, 10:29 PM #7Funky But Chic
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12-22-2013, 10:35 PM #8Hugh Conway Guest
nah, those are a bunch of do-gooding business babbits.
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12-22-2013, 11:06 PM #9Registered User
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According to that I need to move to the desert.
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12-22-2013, 11:10 PM #10Funky But Chic
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Hell, CA isn't in the desert?
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12-22-2013, 11:13 PM #11
My parents live in suburban-rural MN, there is a brand new roundabout within a few miles of their house that took the place of a stop sign , two kinda well traveled county roads intersecting in more or less the middle of nowhere
I was taken aback, to say the least.
Local township must have hired the entry level UP that studied abroad in London.
Edit: I've always called them roundabouts for whatever reason, colour me douchetasticLast edited by RockChalk; 12-23-2013 at 01:44 AM.
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12-22-2013, 11:34 PM #12
Traffic circles when they're placed in the middle of an uncontrolled intersection in residential areas to slow people down, roundabouts when they replace lights or stop signs at the intersection of main roads/arterials. Least, that's how I've always called them 'round here and never heard different from anyone else.
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12-22-2013, 11:38 PM #13Funky But Chic
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They are Rotaries. Smarten up.
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12-22-2013, 11:46 PM #14
They're called circles. And they got rid of most of them a long time ago where I came from due to the carnage that ensued.
Fucking Limeys are so obsessed with them they have six lane, er, roundabouts.
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12-23-2013, 05:53 AM #15
Jackson Ms? WTF. I way more educated than those rednecks
"Can't you see..."
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12-23-2013, 07:22 AM #16Registered User
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12-23-2013, 07:34 AM #17
I live in Delaware, but I am still from Wisconsin.
It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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12-23-2013, 07:36 AM #18Registered User
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12-23-2013, 08:21 AM #19
Funny, I grew up in the south but have always been told that I don't have a southern accent, every single time I tell someone where I'm from. Lived out west for 17 years. This tells me that I talk like I'm from Jackson, MS or Baton Rouge. According to many of my answers, it's a miracle that anyone even understands what the fuck I am saying half the time.
With that said, I call them roundabouts. That's what they are called in NZ and Australia, and Colorado as far as I could tell. Seattle had traffic circles to slow people down in the U district.
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12-23-2013, 08:37 AM #20Funky But Chic
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12-23-2013, 08:39 AM #21
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12-23-2013, 08:57 AM #22jgb@etree Guest
Pretty accurate. It nailed me as being from SW CT.
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12-23-2013, 09:01 AM #23
I'm from "there was an error loading your map", according to this thing.
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12-23-2013, 09:22 AM #24Hugh Conway Guest
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