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For the US, also check out the short quiz from the NY Times [1] based on the Harvard Dialect Survey from ~10 years ago.

It got both mine and my spouse's hometown area dead right.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/...



That was very interesting for me, an Australian living in the US. Phoenix specifically. I'm constantly amazed at how quickly American's can spot that I'm an Aussie.

I've gotten pretty used to the obvious different words between Australia and the US; rubbish = trash, car boot = trunk, pram = stroller, take away = carry out / to go, etc.

However this quiz highlighted a bunch that I wouldn't have been aware of, such as no one in the US knowing what soft-drink is and nature strip wasn't even on the list for "the grass beside a road".




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