{"id":4314,"date":"2013-12-22T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2013-12-22T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T06:00:14","slug":"new-york-times-dialect-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/new-york-times-dialect-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times dialect quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/12\/20\/sunday-review\/dialect-quiz-map.html\">Take the 25-question test<\/a>, with somewhat randomized questions, based on the Harvard Dialect Survey, and see your &#8220;heat map&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My map centered in Iowa, with Minneapolis, Rockford, and Grand Rapids closest in language similarity. But I think I&#8217;ll need a translator the next time I go to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>(Some of the &#8220;correct&#8221; \ud83d\ude1b answers: Pop, garage sale, kitty-corner, there is a certain definition for freeway, aunt\/ant identical. Those who grew up in Polk County will have to answer &#8220;other&#8221; for the question regarding Oct. 30. There&#8217;s no option for using water\/drinking fountain interchangeably.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the 25-question test, with somewhat randomized questions, based on the Harvard Dialect Survey, and see your &#8220;heat map&#8221;. My map centered in Iowa, with Minneapolis, Rockford, and Grand Rapids closest in language similarity. But I think I&#8217;ll need a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/new-york-times-dialect-quiz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}