About This Quiz. The data for the quiz and maps shown here come from over 350,000 survey responses collected from August to October 2013 by Josh Katz, a graphics editor for the New York Times who ...

The editors hope that readers will continue to submit data; the team will incorporate additional responses into the map. Since it was published, more than 7,500 readers have sent in new submissions.

The Man Behind The Dialect Quiz. With just 11 days before the end of 2013, The New York Times posted a dialect quiz on its website that drew in millions of readers, making it the site’s most ...