Tracing Your Dialectic Roots

From Fort Boise: NYT Sunday Review has a little quiz you might like , about what the way you speak says about where you’re from. The last time I had a go at this, it came out murkier, most likely because my answers straddled my youthful and my current ways of speaking. Plus, I may not have had the best 25 sample of the hundred-some questions. My dialect is not what it was, although the discerning can detect my roots. This time, I tried to answer as immediately and reflexively as possible, and it identified my neighborhoods quite well. Full post here.

DFO: My accent comes pretty much from the western United States. But I was surprised that I most speak like people in Denver, Wichita, Kan., and Lincoln, Neb.

Question: How does your dialect match up?