http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=1&
It’s a series of 25 questions that will tell you where you’re from based upon how you pronounce certain words and what you call things like a drive through liquor store?
Anyways, it put me quite accurately in SoCal.
[quote=“kaikai34”]http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=1&
It’s a series of 25 questions that will tell you where you’re from based upon how you pronounce certain words and what you call things like a drive through liquor store?
Anyways, it put me quite accurately in SoCal.[/quote]
Yeah, you might not know it but we aren’t all seppos here bro’.
Amazing. It’s closest location to me was only 40 miles off (also in Southern California). I’m impressed.
PS, what’s a seppo?
[quote=“Hokwongwei”]PS, what’s a seppo?[/quote] It’s rhyming slang, short for “septic tank.” Septic tank = Yank.
We even have one: “raspberry tart.”
Placed me right smack home in Pittsburgh.
Honolulu.
Not bad for someone from Hounslow in West London.
Internal validity of questionnaires be damned. 
Put me in Fremont, California, less than 30 miles from my hometown.
Making rounds on FB–just heard another English bloke get Florida. It got me right on the money.
Santa Ana / Irvine <-- that’s wrinkling my brain!!!
I learned a lot of my vocab at the place, but usually from people of other places…
I guess it’s only applicable for Americans.
So embarrassing, it put me in Florida. I’m from Calgary Alberta. I was at least expecting it to throw me in Seattle or something. FLORIDA !!! 
Although I did have to answer I have no word for this at least 7 or 8 times so I guess we Canadians are just weird…
You mean it works also for people from Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia and so on? wow!
It placed me in Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge and lived in New Orleans for a while. I think it put me in Shreveport because of the way I said lawyer. But after saying the word again a few times after the survey, I concluded that I had responded inaccurately to that item. So the survey did a pretty good job in my case. However, I think that my choice of poor boy for what a lot of people call a sub sandwich ensured that I would be placed in Louisiana–that and calling the evening meal supper.
Yeah there’s certainly a few questions that if answered a certain way they definitely don’t need a 2nd question to know where you’re from. Poor boy? Huh? 
You mean it works also for people from Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia and so on? wow![/quote]
Anyone who thinks “Americans” refers to anything but people from the U.S. needs to brush up on their English.
In Spanish, America is a continent; there is no American continent in English. English speakers from the U.S./Canada, the U.K./Ireland, Australia/New Zealand, and South Africa reckon that North America and South America are two separate land masses (we count 7 continents total) – since they are the major native English-speaking countries in the world, that makes them right.
So in English, a Peruvian is properly called a South American; a Mexican is a North American; a Texan is an American.
This is completely black and white.
Yeah, I run into many Americans who would say no way to those statements.
And i don’t see why on Earth a Mexican is not an American, but somebody from USA is. Is it perhaps because they have more power and money so they can forge the language and terms as if they were the center of the Universe? just guessing.
EDIT:
From the wikipedia:
[quote]American(s) may refer to:
Anything related to, or originating from, the United States of America
Americans, citizens from that country
A person of American ethnicity
The indigenous peoples of the Americas
A person or attribute of one of the nations of the Americas[/quote]
Uhmmmm.
North America, apart from Mexico of course, has some interesting patterns of English.
Most of the questions had me answering in the negative: other, none of the above, never heard of that, et cetera.
Except for certain key questions, such as “caramel”, in which I go both ways, or weys.
Any of the above could be responsible for my being placed in heavy concentration to the north east of Yonkers, N.Y.
[quote=“TheGingerMan”]Any of the above could be responsible for my being placed in heavy concentration to the north east of Yonkers, N.Y.
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This is where I got placed as well.
Quite simply, they are wrong. Do they happen to also speak Spanish?
The vast majority of native English speakers will agree that American refers to the USA; it doesn’t matter what non-native speakers say.
It has nothing to do with putting America at the center of the world, since as I mentioned, Australians, Brits, and Canadians also use the terms this way. (Could I get further confirmation from non-Americans on this one?)
You are being obstinate and trying to impose your world view onto the English language. North and South America are two different continents. Thus they have two distinct demonyms. End of story.
EDIT
Also from wikipedia:
It the overwhelming number of cases where people say “American” does not refer to the USA, it is because of influence from a foreign language. It’s the same way that “New Open” is not English, but Taiwanese people insist it is. Any native speaker who thinks about it for a moment will realize where the problem is.
(PS, as there is no English term for estadounidense, we don’t really have an option but to call ourselves American.)
Some of you seemed to have missed the big maps of the United States used in the quiz.
Florida is home to scads of northern transplants. I don’t see how there can be any specific language pattern down there.