On Dec. 16, 2013, The New York Times published a quiz, How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk. The quiz was based on a decade-old survey by linguists Bert Vaux and Scott Golder, and visualized by Joshua Katz. Based on the quiz taker’s use of certain words and pronunciations, the quiz produced a heat map that showed which area of the U.S. the reader matched linguistically.Continue Reading