Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. The Man Behind The Dialect Quiz With just 11 days before the end of 2013, ...

What do you call that carbonated flavored drink that comes out of a fountain at fast food restaurants? Pop; soda; seltzer? Well, depending on what you say can determine where you are from. That is the ...

Do you call your mother’s sister “ant” or your “ont?” A popular quiz created by the New York Times guesses where you’re from in the country, based on your dialect. Cornell University sociologist Scott ...

Bert Vaux’s dialect survey is endlessly fascinating, prompting thousands of folks to figure out which American dialect they speak. This video mixes audio of people taking the survey with Joshua Katz’s ...

A tweet on Twitter caught my eye the other day. It seems an intern created the New York Times' most popular piece of online content in 2013. It's an interactive dialect map. Dubbed “How Y'all, Youse ...

Earlier in the year Joshua Katz, an intern with the New York Times' graphics team and a statistician at North Carolina State University, started an online survey looking at Americans' regional ...

Linguistics professor Bert Vaux explains how he created the data that turned into The New York Times' popular dialect test. A Closer Look At The New York Times Dialect Quiz What do you call that ...