Answer questions about how you actually speak — your pronunciation, your vocabulary, your turns of phrase — and we'll show you where in the United States your dialect comes from.
No right or wrong answers — just answer with what you really say.
This interactive map is based on data from the Harvard Dialect Survey, conducted in 2003 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. The survey collected responses from over 12,000 people across the United States to map linguistic differences.
When you answer questions, we compare your responses to the original survey data using a Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) approach on the backend (pre-processed). Your personalized heat map composites these density layers to show where your dialect is most statistically probable.
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Based on 0 answers, here's where your speech patterns are most commonly found: