Harvard Dialect Quiz on Point
Posted by: Xu | on October 9, 2014
The three cities’ dialects that are most similar to mine are: Glendale, Los Angeles, and San Jose. This quiz is quite accurate because I am from LA and it shows that people from LA and Glendale often refer to big roads as “freeways.” As I was taking the quiz, I realize that many of the questions that it had asked, I don’t have a word to describe it. For example, I don’t have a term for “the night before Halloween” or when it is sunny and raining at the same time. I’ve never heard of such things like “the devil beating his wife” or “kitty wampus.” As for phrases like “the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road” or “a long sandwich that contains cold cuts and lettuce,” I simply just refer to it as “the grass area” and ” a sandwich.” I found out that I don’t have a term for most of the questions that were asked in the quiz.
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