Where do you speak like?

[Gob]

Apparently, somewhere called "yonkers" and "New Jersey" and "New York"

Old Jersey and Old York I would have been happier with.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I suppose you could make a corned beef or pastrami hoagie, but it's not something you'd typically encounter around here (I don't think I've ever seen one, even on a menu).

That might get you shot in brooklyn. Corned beef or pastrami must go on either rye or pumpernickle. It's a law.

Apparently, somewhere called "yonkers" and "New Jersey" and "New York"

Yonkers is part of New Yawk City (and NY state). New Jersey is a state near NY (just south).
Staten Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn (aka Kings county) make up New Yawk city. Of course when most people refer to NY city they are refering to Manhattan. Personally, I avoid Manhattan (and most of NY city) as much as possible.

[Gob]

If anyone really wants to know what I sound like;

[TPFKA@W]

Indianapolis, St. Louis and Springfield Missouri. Stunned I tell you.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well.... I got Cleveland (!), Rochester and Honolulu. Rochester was really set amongst a quite reddish Upper NY and New England region. Maybe it has some validity?

[Econoline]

I thought "Grinders" was a Chicago term. That one recently made inroads round here (people will no longer stare at you blankly for saying it)

According to this article, "grinders" came from New England.

[Daisy]

Salt Lake City, Spokane and Modesto.

[Rick]

Birmingham, a little East but having been there they speak the same language as we do

[Long Run]

Portland, Salt Lake and Spokane. Pretty good on the map too.

[Lord Jim]

Apparently, somewhere called "yonkers" and "New Jersey" and "New York"

LMAO!!!

Since I got the same result, that would mean that you and I speak with the same accent...

Having spoken with you, I think you would agree that's not on...

[MajGenl.Meade]

The colors on the large heat map correspond to the probability that a randomly selected person in that location would respond to a randomly selected survey question the same way that you did. The three smaller maps show which answer most contributed to those cities being named the most (or least) similar to you.

Chaps and chapettes, it has nothing to do with "sound" or "accent". It's comparing the words you choose to use with the words other people across the USA choose to use. Thus, apparently, the word "sneakers" is more commonly used in the NY/NJ areas than in (say) New Mexico. "Pop" is more likely to be used in Cleveland (I happen to know) than it is in places where the expression "soda" is commonly found.

It also does not say that any person comes from place X just because they happen to use a word or words that are more commonly found in place X.

Aside from Honolulu (which I don't understand), my English heritage (regardless of accent) finds an affinity in upper NY and New England. And 30 years of living in Cleveland actually produced that as the city my word usage most strongly indicates. These facts tend to show that the language study has identified much that is correct in word patterns.

LJ, your subject line (inelegant as it is) correctly emphasised "speaking like" rather than "sounding like".

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[Lord Jim]

LJ, your subject line (inelegant as it is) correctly emphasised "speaking like" rather than "sounding like".

I'll tell you what's inelegant...

Attributing a subject line to the wrong person...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Aargh. Well.... iceberg, Goldberg... what's the difference?

[Big RR]

Yonkers is part of New Yawk City (and NY state). New Jersey is a state near NY (just south).

Since when? Yonkers it a municipality in the southernmost part of Westchester county. I borders the Bronx, but it is not part of NY City (but is part of NY state).

That might get you shot in brooklyn. Corned beef or pastrami must go on either rye or pumpernickle. It's a law.

I guess it depends on the neighborhood. I grew up in Brooklyn (Bay Ridge) and we had pizzerias (pizza parlors) that offered pastrami and corned beef on sub rolls. The delis didn't, but then they never had that type of roll.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Since when? Yonkers it a municipality in the southernmost part of Westchester county. I borders the Bronx, but it is not part of NY City (but is part of NY state).

OOOOPS, you are correct. did I post that?!?!?
my bad.

[rubato]

Salt Lake City, Spokane and Modesto.

Portland, Salt Lake and Spokane. Pretty good on the map too.

I got Salt Lake City, Modesto, Sacramento. The large coastal cities of the Bay Area, LA basin, and possibly Seattle are probably too polyglot for "American" differentiators to be detectable. Also, as major destinations for migration from the rest of the country usage is likely less uniform.

Yrs,
Rubato

[Daisy]

Do you think they got a large migration of Lancastrians?

I'm from Oldham, I'm a yonner, a woollyback, a roughyed. If you can find one place in the USA where they speak like I do, I would be extremely surprised.