That requires me to sign on with The New York Times. No thank you, I'm not that interested in seeing if I can be placed "outside the continental United States."

Lost in the Pond I took the quiz and was expecting a mixed result as I grew up as a military brat and lived in CA, CO, FL, and OK. But to my surprise it was very accurate to where I live now. The 3 cities that fit me best we’re Wichita, OKC, and Springfield MO.

I paused your video to go and take the test. I am from Oklahoma, but most of my ancestors are from the deep south...mainly Alabama. My test showed Oklahoma City, Mobile Alabama, and Montgomery Alabama. I would say that test was a dead ringer.

I've always heard it called devil's night myself

All the names for the wild cat does infact describe the same cat

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LOL. We actually have several of them in my area. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact AA started in my part of the U.S.?

Lol. Only place I've ever seen this is in Florida, where it's called Beverage Barn 😅

The only time I saw that was when I was in Mexico. 😑

Ha! My feeling exactly the first time I encountered one when I went to college (in Ohio).

truth!

Bless those little hearts of those that cant understand all y,all but they try

I wish you guys and y'all interchangeably was an option.

Jaded Wonderland that’s me

strave victourous all y’all is just the plural of y’all

Yes, something about Celts (Scots, Irish, etc.) settling the Appalachias. I've heard this too.

I recently learned there's a similar situation with Texas German (which apparently is a thing). There's a whole community that speaks a more traditional version of German than what you'd find in most of Germany today because German settlers settled & the language was different enough from the established west Texan that they never really had much effect on one another. Somehow preserving an older form of German.

This also applies to Cajuns, aka Les Acadiens, who migrated from Canada down to Louisiana. Their version of French is very old, although I have been told by a native French speaker from Orleans that he could understand Cajun French quite well.

Vowels (and diphthongs) are often somewhat similar to at least some British accents. Also, the lack of r’s in the Boston accent 😂

I've always heard that Appalachian was most similar to Elizabethan English.

This happened to me in NYC in the 80s and I’m from Mississippi. So, they’d ask me all kind of questions about anything. We were in line to get into Hard Rock. 🤣

​@@margaretstutts4362 long time ago I was visiting my cousins in New York. They asking me to different words. They said I sounded really southern. Most in the south either can't figure out where I am from. Or they think I am from the North. Well I was born and raised in the south. 😊

That happened to me when I was 9 visiting friends who had moved from Georgia to New York. The other kids kept following me around just to hear me speak and my accent isn't that strong as other relatives. It definitely comes out when I least expect it to.

Not going to lie. I struggle to understand some people from West Virginia and I’m American.

My mother grew up in the coal camps of Mingo County. I grew up in the Ohio River section of WV. I worked with a Scottish doctor for 15 years who laughed all the time at things I said that she swore were Scots slang.

Imagine their confusion if you'd said you were from Birmingham, just not 'that' one.

Very few people k ow that the modern southern accent is a holdover from colonial era England. I tried to tell this to a British friend once and he refused to believe me lol.

I tell people that a lot and they don't get it either.

@@Blade4952 that's funny; my British friend didn't believe me either. Until she found out common food items between us. For example: we both used malted vinegar as a condiment on batter-fried fish; as opposed to breaded or mealed fish - like catfish - on which we'd both use tartar or cocktail sauce (w/horseradish), that we both made potato-cakes, & several other distinctly British foods...then she was finally convinced.

Blade4952 the modern accent isn’t as strong as the accent 50 years ago. Back then they would have definitely believed you but at this point it’s evolved so much with a lot more communication between states

It will always drive me nuts that peps on the gulf call them Panther, cause they ain't actualy panthers...

I feel like the "least similar" on that one may be wrong. I'm from upstate New York, and have lived in the Midwest for 20 years, amd almost exclusively hear "cougar". Occasionally I'll hear "mountain lion" or "puma", but not often. Amd the only time I've heard "catamount" is old books and westerns

I live in Utah and we use mountain lion and cougar equally. Puma occationally.

@@ShiningSakuraKinda strange that the map indicated that cougar wasn't that common in Utah. I mean, BYU Cougars is a thing. C'mon!

@@TuhljinTampergauge I thought the very same thing. I guess it comes down to you have to pick 1 option as well as who they polled for this to compare to.

I just did the same thing, and yeah it completely nailed it. Really surprised me, haha.

Same!!

Wow... You're a woman, in my state (Philly boy here), and most importantly, a Loyalist!? (I personally identify as a Space Wolf Adeptus Astartes 😂) You have given me so much hope... Lol Be safe, fellow citizen of the Imperium. For Russ! For the Allfather!

Yinz is also used in Appalachia, and before today, I would have guessed that it's the only place in the US where it's said.

That's the whole reason I clicked on this :D

Im from New Castle Pa right between Pittsburgh and well Youngstown Ohio. Yinz is such a Western Pa word. But I do really cringe when people say "warsh" instead of "wash" . I know we got our language around here but that is awful on the ears.

The Math Hatter yes, they do, don’t they?

@@debigarland7313 Mountain lion is most common, in my experience, though you do hear cougar and puma on occasion. They're like jaguars without the spots.

@@debigarland7313 Yes, Puma concolor, they live all through the Americas from the Yukon to the southern Andes.

In the south, where I went to school our mascot was the cougar, but once I moved to Colorado the schools used Mountain Lion. Personally I use Mountain Lion.

“Painter” is a specifically Appalachian turn of “panther.” Growing up in Tennessee, we heard the word “panther” most often and sometimes pronounced as “painter” but always knowing it was the same cat as cougar and mountain lion.

Totally Agree with you on that.....British actors are very good with Southern accents.......

I slowed down the video, and indeed, he turned to a southerner! in a bliiink

@@teresamanley7154 Except for Daniel Craig for some reason

@@BOT-qg4lq he sounds like a drunk southerner

I do declare!

And then a poboys (or poor boy, as some call it), is a distinct type of sandwich from down here in the South where it's made using french bread. The best type specifically uses New Orleans style french bread. Also, while poboys, like subs, have a roast beef option or even stuff like a hamburger or steak option sometimes, most meat options for poboys are seafood based rather than farm meat based, primarily: catfish, shrimp, crab, and fried oysters.

And breads with the same basic shape - only smaller - are called torpedo rolls.

The Pittsbugh area always called it Devils night to , and we famously always called it pop .

Michigan here. It's devil's night because bad people set fires, vandalize. And commit general mayhem. And we say pop. Soda is the white stuff that comes in a yellow box.

​@@JBG1968 Pittsburgh and Detroit have some interesting dialect overlap.

Rust belt -- we all use similar terms I'm thinking.

I listened to an interview with the people who came up with the survey. There is a question like that for almost every city, where that one answer is like a bullseye, BAM, "you're from here cause they're the only ones who say that". 😅 They can figure out where you grew up with two or three random questions. It's really cool. 😅

In Britain they're called glow Worms, and abundant where I live in Somerset, though I doubt they're prevalent in Grimsby.

I remember them being called both interchangeably in Indiana.

Chad Fisher Yeah, I was a little surprised about the map on that one. I used lightning bug more as a kid and firefly as an adult and I’ve always lived in Indiana.

Same here

I would understand them interchangeably but I've never said "lightning bug" unless I was reading it from a book.

Irish has a huge influence on it

@@Blondie42 No, the South has a relatively low irish, especially compared to the Northeast. If you mean "Scots-Irish" then perhaps, even though those people are actually Scottish and Northern English. Also, the English were the first to settle the south.

@billnye7323 Yes. Why do you think that they can easily fake a southern accent? Had the great famine never happened, with 1.5 million fleeing to NA, we likely wouldn't have that dialect nor two holidays

@@Blondie42 What dialect are you referring to, and what state is NA?

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Unless you are actually trying to sell a bunch of boots. Could indicate some place up north?

@@johnalden5821 I'm in the Midwest and we call a trunk sale when people sell things from the trunk of their car. Kind of like second had things, handmade things or even at a craft fair

We don’t need to spy on you.

Aaron Jackson are you sure about that?

Yeah, the Brits are really flailing in the darkness right now. Empire is a hell of a drug to quit.

Pretty much tracks with the fact that southern and east coast English is closer to British English

I grew up saying "Ya reckon."

Yes I'm in NC. The word is a part of us..lol

I am a New Zealander we say reckon which surprised my Californian sister in law

I've met a foreigner who couldn't understand a southern accent, too!

That's exactly why Texans speak the way we do. It's a dialect from the Appalachians and British and Scots-Irish unless you're in some parts of the Panhandle and they sound like Yankees with a flat accent.

Yeah, I kind of expected North Carolina

@@jwb52z9 I spent some time in Guymon, OK, in the Oklahoma panhandle right above the Texas panhandle, and they sure didn't sound like Yankees to me. Of course, I will admit that they didn't sound like Sanderson or Uvalde either.

There are parts of the Appalachian mountain region where they still speak almost identically to their ancestors from the south west of england (cornish/bristolian) the accent is almost identical, the dialect/phrases etc line up very well too. You could put the two peoples together and it would be hard to tell the two apart.

Ulster-Irish

I agree, he did miss that.

@@cirrustate8674 agreed

This drove me nuts from kindergarten. CRAY-ON! That's how it's spelled. It's not an effing CROWN! >:( I can look past variations for most words but this one still gets to me. ahn has the exact same pronunciation as awn. Both sound like on. Am I missing something?

He may have missed it, but it didn't match his pronunciation anyway - not in British terms. His O in CRAYON is the O sound in (British) DON, not the one in (British) DAWN.

@@paulwebbiweb You've confused me now . I'm Scottish , and I say both don and dawn exactly the same.

It's one tiny island off the coast of the Carolinas that uses an African-influenced pidgin English called Gullah! Very interesting, and I had never heard of it before taking this quiz.

@@AsaTJ522 i heard about the origin of this. Very cool. Truly the american spirit shinning through with ingenuity. The conditions in which this was made necessary are a blight on american history, yet if they were ignored it would be a disgrace(at the very least) Having time between these events allows us to appreciate these cultural differences but why they came about is still uncool.

Mostly in the Gullah island areas off the coast of South Carolina.

I'm in NC and never heard of it.

@@rhondaprice5202 I’m from NC and Gullah used to be here too. I’m surprised you never heard of them. They’re pretty well known here

from middle tennessee this is what was always said am close to 60 yrs old

Being a southerner as well (Louisiana, never heard of the place yats he mentioned. ), I VAGUELY remember/know the term but for me it's just a "sun shower". Like for crawfish, Know/heard of the term mudbug, but it's never really called that here unless in a joking manner with/between kids. Mainly since its a fairly big export from our state, would be foolish to call em that lol

i live in east Tennessee and am raised by someone from Indiana so I have a mix. Crawdad, sun shower, mountain lion, pop. My brother is asked a lot if he is from New York weirdly enough.

Living on the coast of Texas we tend to call that the seabreeze. Usually happens in the early afternoon.

I'm gonna have to use that one. In Ireland, so I'll get some miles out of it lol

Yes, here in Michigan

I've never heard any term in Southern England. Time to adopt Kitty Corner.

Neutral ground makes me think of New Orleans, Louisiana.

@@gregcrabb3497 Yeah, New Orleans is one of the main places that uses that term.

If you're an electrician, these words are NOT interchangeable.

...or the DMZ

Dangerous_stranger That and “ommunna “ as in “Ommunna finish this up then go wash my hands.” (I’m gonna)

Yes...but I say it more like "y'all da" as in... Y'all da finished that if you'd a tried.😊

Or y’all’er. as in in y’all’er gonna y’all’s ass kicked

I did once and everybody started looking at me

@@llamasugar5478 I use imma, never heard of ommonna

which one??

@@osuasheuatl lol Birmingham, Alabama. The one that his results showed.

Hence the name Birmingham.

@Kathleen Henson No, you really don't. The US and the UK each have a single Birmingham that everyone other than you immediately understands is the one being talked about unless further clarified.

I'm from Arkansas. It's all Scotch-Irish English and German.

In the philippines if that event happens, we link it to a tikbalang's (half human half horse creature) wedding.

Yep! and Japanese Americans (like myself) say that too! Though I was also raised in the south so I've heard 'devil beating his wife'. If I'm trying to hid my accent or blend in at least, I just go with sunshower since it's the most neutral.

IT'S SAME IN SOUTH ASIA TOO WTF.

@@elijahtomaquin3160 I grew up in the Midwest but parent were from the South. It was "devil's beating his wife," here too. Boy wasn't he mean af!

Oh wow, the first thing to came to my mind was a crap class. Not sure if your joking or not but it’s eerily similar

We called them "pud" classes.

I called them bunny classes.

Suburban Chicago from the 70s and 80s we called them blow-offs. Blowoff classes, not courses. Class is used frequently when meaning course. And you could skip a blowoff class, or a hard class, by "blowoff", as in "let's blowoff Calculus today and go to Taco Bell."

I called them Electives.

If you answer that to question number one the quiz should just stop and pinpoint you at Pittsburgh.

kam2244 X Pittsburgh rocks !

Being a pennsylvanian I've heard alot of times that we definitely have an accent. I never understood that, cause I no materfactly we talk same as y'all

@@kamX-rz4uy Exactly! I grew up there but haven't lived there for 35 years, but I can still pick out w SW PA accent a mile away. I mean, where else can yinz go Dahn tahn and have a jumbo sandwich at Isleys then worsh up afterwards?

I’m from Pittsburgh and I don’t really use yinz unless I’m back home, but the thing that gives me away is when I say pop instead of soda.

In our house dinner was the evening meal and lunch was at noon.

My mom was from Montreal Canada so we said supper for the evening meal. As a grownup I always use dinner.

Yeah, for me growing up the larger, more formal meal was the evening meal and it was called dinner, lunch was a smaller, often less formal meal that was usually whatever you could make or reheat quickly in the microwave and didn't necessarily involve the entire family, even on weekends or during holidays. I can't comment on how much it might have been influenced by media, it was just always the case. For reference, my parents grew up in Ohio in the 60s through 70s.

Grew up in the south. For my grandparents it went breakfast, dinner, supper. At my house, there was no lunch as that's something you'd eat at work or school since nobody would be home at that time and dinner /supper was used interchangeably.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper. We only had dinner on special days like Christmas, New Years, Easter & Thanksgiving. From South Louisiana.

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yeah, I've heard this too. Apparently if you slow down a British accent, it begins to sound more like a Southern accent.

Probably all of the American accents are derived from British accents -- just from different parts of Britain. Four hundred years ago, British accents were even more dissimilar than they are now. So if you had a preponderance of East Anglians going into New England, for example, that would influence the development of that accent, etc.

@Mike Girard I don't get that, Boomhauer talk really fast and still sound southern

You mean a Northerner? Or a Midwesterner?

JoJo Bean Non-southerner.

As a Southerner, I strongly disagree. Most “southern” accents whether from US or British actors are generic and grating. Just as if an American used a “generic” British accent other than RP.

I say I say I resemble that remark!

The thing is there is not really a 'Southern accent'. Alabama sounds different than Louisiana which sounds different than Texas. Most actors use a mix of all of them which just sounds weird to us.

There were two lovely Asian ladies with drawls and big hair running a Chinese restaurant in Kentucky.lol

One of the strangest experiences I ever had was being checked out from a Mexican restaurant by an East Asian cashier who had a stroooooong Southern accent.

I'm British, where we don't have any dangerous animals, and if I saw one I would probably call it, "Oh shit"

Panthers are related to Jaguars and Leopards but in America the misnamed Florida panther is really a cougar that can also play hockey.

@@horsenuts1831 and I was under the impression that they were literally all different species

Living in California, I use Mountain lion, cougar, and puma interchangeably, but a panther is not a cougar. A panther as I've always heard it is another word for, or perhaps a subspecies of, Jaguar.

I Got That PMA I’d love to hear how you figured that out when all sources I can find say it is the same cat, by many names.

Dude, all English speakers have strong linguistic ties to England. You people don't even listen to yourselves when you bullshit about your supposed language knowledge.

@@nunliski You don't understand and actually quite rude. Some places have more than others. You go to California and some other states near the Mexican boarder and you'll find more Spanish, Mexican, and Hispanic influence more linguistically, culturally, and even in the architecture style. It means there is a decline of the influence over time to make way for others to dilute it out and whatever there is has evolved into a different path from the origin. It isn't all evenly strong English here. You go to other former colony nations you will see stronger long lasting influences than the U.S. has. It is because it split of and literally evolved in another direction with various areas becoming more heavily French, Spanish, German, Nordic, Asian, or Indian influence in the regional culture. You go to Canada you'll literally feel like everything is more.... European... and British... You don't feel the same in the U.S. In fact most Americans in a video mentioning ethnic backgrounds people say they have or focus on don't even list English... at all. I am not joking. They literally mention everyone else and have a disinterest in England as their ancestry. Irish, Scottish, and Welsh get mentioned much more than England and people from there. You go to other former colonies you'll notice an increase in the English area and influence and Anglophiles too. It is an example of how America has culturally, linguistically, and ethically evolved away from the U.K. to be something different by now. Most people in the world, and in fact particularly the people in the U.K., just completely stubborn and so disinterested to care to realize this so they are usually unaware of this. So they have a habit of ignorantly and idiotically misjudging the amount of how, "English," or, "British," to be higher than it actually is. They are still stuck in the 1700s thinking everything is heavily English and still thinking, "That is my child," and everyone. Then comes here and gets a reality check when he sees the "children of Britain," have literally become Japanese weebos, extremely ethnically mixed to a point many people are not often identifying themselves as, "I don't know,",and speaking and acting nothing like the people in the U.K. You see there is a limit to how much of the influence. It is the type of thing many in the U.K. don't bother paying attention too enough. They don't care. They only care about talking about what is related to them in our culture more and the others get neglected or shafted in attention. As a result often you will find a large portion of the U.K.'s populous still thinking their influence is still big despite it has been over 200 years now and the culture had many others jumping in and having a longer impact by them by now. Of course they would not know this because they are too busy focusing on their culturally impact and not the others. Oh sure. They'll tell you, "No. We are taught about the others too," and I am going to point out to them they spent more time talking about their own influencing us than the others in conversation and written posted paragraphs. Actions speak louder than words. They are told we have other influences and how we evolved culturally and linguistically.... but they don't really.... still fathom it. They are still stuck in the, "That is my child," mode despite it being 100 generations now. What I am saying is there is a limit until a culture can keep having ___ ( insert name of another culture considered to create it) applied to it. At some point they evolve and have so much mixing and diffusing they are something completely different. The U.S. is literally reaching that point now and most people are in denial they can't keep having the English influence kept slapped on it anymore at some point.

@@sharkfinbite Im from the UK. Dont worry not all of us are like that guy, haha

OOOoooOO ...I'm internet famous hmmm

...not what I was referring to...

I'm from Youngstown and heard "yinz" a lot. I don't say that because it's from Pittsburgh. I'm a Browns fan, sooooo that's not gonna happen!

Bylie Brown evolved from "you ones"

Yeah, as a native yinzer that really surprised me. I thought KZfaq’s algorithm was getting really specific.

My wife is from Pittsburgh (PA) and from the way she pronounces it (though she never uses it), I would spell it "yunz," or even "yuhnz," the latter so that no one would think the "u" was pronounced as "oo" in "moon." I'm from California but went to college in Maryland, so I have happily acquired the habit of saying "y'all."

Sophie Robinson Evolved from yunz or you’enz, which supposedly the Germany weak plural added on to “you”, then the English weak plural ‘s’ added at the end.

It makes sense, right

Also from ny area I say you all but I also say "a" because were so closely aligned near Canada I've picked up a few of their sayings also....shout out to my Canada neighbors who I miss so much ....

Its our country dude, it'd be weird if we didn't pick these sorts of things up, no?

@@joecerone true and there's no rhyme or reason what kind of phraseology we'll use in California. Southern Cal you can hear sort of a surfer sound and lingo and in the Central Cal it's a hick dialect when you get out of the cities. One of the guys I worked with was from Arkansas and he told the boss man he liked to work with me cause I'm country. I said I know whatcha mean. He'd say stuff like that dadgum this or that or the other and I'd just throw them country phrases back at him. We could talk proper when we talked to customers. But when we talked among ourselves it was a lot of country clownin. Never taking life seriously. That guy could sell a deep freezer to an Eskimo. We actually sold Eskimo outposts sometimes cause the government gives them money they don't know what to do with. He'd promise them he'd throw a case of vodka in the shipment cause they're not allowed to by liquor. Never did😹😂🤣

Please describe both.

@@bcatypical Frosting is thick and fluffy; icing is thin and sometimes glossy.

Agree with Anna. Frosting would be like on a birthday cake and icing would be like on a cinnamon roll.

and icing is marginally thicker than a glaze

@@SangosEvilTwin Right, exactly. Although you could almost use those two interchangeably. Never frosting, though.

My mother was first generation Slovakian and she said the same thing. We lived in St Louis City.

Born in southern Texas, of German and various Western European ancestry. I also learned that phase as the Devil beating his wife.

MICHST1978 Hi. I’m from Detroit.

Confirmed

We call it Devil's Eve in Lansing

Shi that's my birthday lol

Most definitely

Raised n Stayed in TX 1 I heard the term Supper only once outside of a religious setting from a girl from Memphis. Lol never heard it again. We always had Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Otherwise it was a snack. We never use Brunch or Linner use Supper, at all. Tho we might eat a traditional dinner for breakfast and breakfast for an evening meal. So we never really swung hard and true at any specifications for that thing on a plate that we are all consuming at this hour. Tho... I never heard anyone else call things meals. We might say... "Hey, I gotta head back home to wash up before our evening meal" that used to bother people lol idky. It was gonna be our last meal of the day. Also what is considered evening means very different things to me and my family and other locals. We would say: The Wee Hrs 12³⁰a - 2a Early Morning 3a - 5a Morning 6a-11a Noon 12p Afternoon 1p - 5p Evening 6p - 8p Night 8:³⁰p - 5a Midnight 12a So when ppl would day can we meet up in thr afternoon that is legit anywhere in that specified 5 hour period of 1p to right before 6p

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My parents were from Oklahoma and Arkansas, and I was born in Texas, so dinner was almost always just Sunday at noon when we got home from church (as you said), and rarely ever any other day of the week. Except of course for Christmas dinner and Thanksgiving dinner, which are big meals in the middle of the afternoon, where you have a light breakfast and no lunch to make sure you have plenty of space! LOL

@@BengtBagels I don't know that I ever thought about it that specifically, but when I read your time descriptions, that lined up very closely with what I understand those terms to mean. (Born in Texas, raised all over the place.)

Not to be provocative, but I always thought the titles in the Klan were kinda English, what with Knights and Wizards and such. I've also had a theory that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was actually intentionally set by Southern malcontents as a form of sabotage and terrorism or payback for severe mistreatment of Confederate POWs in Chicago during the Civil War.

@@thesnowmonkeyhaslanded3513 okay?

It's a Detroit term. We call it Devils night because between the 70s and 80s there was mass vandalism on October 30th, and was thus named Devils night. The term stuck even though that kind of thing doesn't happen anymore.

I'd heard of "Devil's Night" because of Hocus Pocus, but never heard it in real life.

I've heard devil's night but only on documentaries or movies. But how many call Halloween St. Hollows Eve? I've heard that even more. Followed by all saints day (Nov 1).

@@foobear1920 People who practice witchcraft call it All Hallows Eve.

@@Conflictinator oops. That's totally what I meant. I had a mix of the all saints day and the fact that I had just commented on another that I live near "Cougar" Washington at the foot of Mt "St" Helen still stuck in my head. Lol so that's the jumble that came out. 😆 Yes all hollows eve. 👍

Knickers are pants, often leather, that buckle below the knee, commonly seen in 18th century illustrations. Pants are the midground between jeans and trousers. I believe what you are referring to is what we, properly, call underpants. After all, they are worn under your trousers, pants, or jeans.

Narrator: “they all referred to the same kind of cat”

I did laugh when he said that cause i knew they were the same cat…in my neck of the woods they are panthers, i'm betting that one answer pinpointed my state.

I too have heard all the names, but to us, they are mountain lions.

Hmm. Have you ever heard "catty wampus" to describe something "kitty corner" diagonal to something else?

I say cata-corner. I have never heard kitty corner.

@@kirbyhill3411 I grew up in Seattle, and I say kitty-corner. When I took the quiz, I got Seattle, Spokane and Portland as my cities - and kitty-corner was listed as the most “regionally unique” answer I put for all three cities.

catty corner is used in oklahoma, often.

Lizzie Baggins I grew up in Pittsburgh PA and we say “ kitty corner”, too!

The south western accents of England sound similar, the drawl in Devon/Somerset is the same today as Virginia, where they first settled (but disappearing fast unfortunately, as everyone speaks a monotone trans-Atlantic voice now)

@@jagdpanther1944 went to broadcast journalism school, first thing they did was get rid of our accents, wanted a neutral Midwest sound.

Robert Payne real life Henry Higgins

That's very impressive. I wish I could have met this man. I love linguistics

Huh! That's like the time my mom and two other members of our Star Trek club, which at the time included an English professor and an English as a second language teacher who spoke seven languages, quizzed my mom on "How do you say (blank)?" all the way to a convention in Denver. Because she's lived all over the country so they were trying to trace what was from where. :P

That's Amazing

This reminds me of a Polish woman I met in London,after chatting for a few minutes she asked "are you from New Zealand"? I said yes then she asked,"are you from Dunedin"? It floored me that she'd picked up on my accent and was able to pinpoint where I grew up. She told me she'd travelled around NZ and that was how she knew.

JT weird, I have never heard that term Despite being a Michigander (midland Michigan)

I've never heard a word for this, and I'm from west michigan

Grew up in Detroit suburb. Devil's Night

Agreed grew up between Lansing and Detroit. It's Devils Night.

I grew up in Holland MI but we never called it anything. Of course, I'm over the hill and we moved to Arizona when I was twelve.

i allways stick eve on it intersted

I too grew up in Michigan. Devil’s Night.

SAME!

Has always been Devil's night to me. (Mid Michigan)

I don't call it that persay but i've heard it called that but there are a lot of snowbirds from michigan down here usually.