considering I'm English I'm not entirely surprised it'd put me in new england (not that i speak like them at all)

I think this was too common for a name where I come from. But at least once there, I not only experienced rain, sun, and *snow* all at the same time, but the snow felt warm to the touch when it melted on contact. I want a word for THAT, please. One that goes after the words "What the fuck is".

I’m gonna have to start saying Fox’s wedding…

Apparently it’s not! @thesinnamom.gay says he was taught to call it the devil thing until he found sunshowers and used that because he didn’t like the euphemism

I thought it was wild too I was like who SAYS this lmao

I always used the devil one but it never came up much. Then, one day it did, and I had a group of my students stare at me and go "What the fuck did you just say?"

I also stunned them by putting peanuts in my coke.

I want a fox to marry me tho.

I mean, fox's wedding is the one I heard first when I was studying in Japan. 狐の嫁入り

Okay well that one is just cute and good as a furry I have no choice but to validate and root for your dreams :p

I know the Fox Wedding ends up in Kitsune lore and it makes me really curious as to the history on this map.

hmmm yes

Its a lyric in Cry In The Sun and Better Than Ezra is a Texas band so youtu.be/YmI_PqhzSkc?...

This is also the case for me, I used the Devil euphemism up til I was like 10 and heard sunshowers used on TV

On a related note I continue to be amazed how many things that feel southeast-US specific also end up being a midwestern thing.

Anyway this quiz is pretty accurate, except for New England. Maybe I picked up speech from a roommate I once lived with who is from New England.

Mine's really spot on. I grew up in Virginia and most of my family is from Maryland. The results' focus on New York City came mainly from saying 'sunshower', which is coincidence; I came up with the term on my own before ever hearing anyone say it.

I kinda wish this had Canada in there too because I’m sure I’ve picked up Canadianisms from a certain other roommate I had.

I will never call it Kraft Dinner though, you Canadians are WRONG about that one.

I'm finna grab a double double at Timmy Hos then it's go time buddy

What’s a Kraft dinner?

It’s what Canadians call Kraft Mac & Cheese.

HUH? Okay then hahaha I’m very… tickled by that

This is the Canadian packaging.

WILD

This is literally the original name, it was called Kraft dinner before it was ever called Kraft Mac & Cheese. They had to change it for Americans because KD didn't market well in the US.

Specifically it doesn't have enough cheese in it to legally be called mac and cheese

I think that one is an urban legend but still funny.

That's the long name. It's more often just called KD.

I did this, but of course it didn't fit where I live 😜

I grew up in the country in Missouri where everyone around me spoke in a particularly southern dialect so mine was spot on.

I'm thoroughly Kentuckian and I have the accent but I still pick and choose a wide range of dialectical differences from other places just because I'm an etymology nerd and I think those work better.

Golden Shower, isn't it?

Personally I would have picked "fox's wedding" mainly out of my love for Kurosawa films.

Ikr, it's obviously pineapple rain

Fox's wedding is an actual term in Japan, because there's folklore that a literal wedding between kitsune happens on those days. Haven't heard of the one above it though, but it sounds like... great-grandpa born in the 1920s bad >.>

I wonder how it ended up in America. I’m thinking of Japanifornia in Ace Attorney.

Most likely, yeh XD

*points at your Onigiri* Eat your burgers, Darin.

*points at onigiri rolling down a hill* No, my submarine sandwich!

I mean I've never heard any of these my entire life, but I am 100% using the wolf one from now on because it's ridiculous, so at the very least this question is self-fulfilling

I've heard "Sunshower," "The devil is beating his wife," and "liquid sun," but I have never heard of those other ones.

SHOCKING: The asshole from New York talks like a New Yorker

sunshower, but fox's wedding makes sense if you know some folklore around foxes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune...

I’ve heard of atmospheric lights being called foxfire, as an alternative to will o’ the wisps, but haven’t heard of this.

Why do you say it has to be a troll?

They literally refer to it as a fox's wedding in the movie Dreams by Akira Kurosawa

I mean, it's outside the US, but the term is a thing

All of these are completely unknown to me. I thought this was just made up until seeing the replies. 😅

"Liquid sun" sounds wild.

For me I mostly heard it called "the devil is beating his wife" from other family folks where I live, I think it's a southern term.

The "devil" one...just, yikes. But, in my neck of the woods, we call it "liquid sunshine."

The answer is sunshower, but holy shit I love some of these answers.

But also, link?

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Where do I FIND ONE OF THESE

West Texas

Can I admit I’ve seen a few but I don’t remember where? I think at least one was either in Ohio or South Carolina. Very specifically NOT allowed to get out of your vehicle to grab something.

Every time I take this or something like it, it is wildly confused because I use terms like attercop but don't live in Appalachia. I just like the word.

I've done this before, but am still in awe of how fucking specifically accurate it is. I grew up in the Fort Lauderdale suburbs.

With as much as I have moved around the country, this was going to be the only result, although maybe a bit further west than I expected. I spent time in SD, but not as much as other regions.

That’s interesting. That’s the most spread out red I’ve ever seen.

I don't think I've stayed in any one place for more than five years at a time. Growing up in a military family, I split my time in multiple states my first 18 years, going to seven schools in 12 years. After graduating, I found myself moving a lot because I couldn't find a place to settle.

I will say it's weird that my dialect is closer to Georgia and most of Florida (I did live in Central Florida for ~3 years) and not South Carolina where I spent about a decade.