I do. It contains facial expressions. Eye contact and knowing who you are communicating with. It’s noise though, just not with your mouth. If I’m in the kitchen, and my Wife makes that two slap sound while making a chess move from another room. I know what that means.
I thought the same thing about the retirees. And I’ve also never heard it called anything other than a service road. That answer is why my three cities are Philadelphia , Yonkers and NYC, where I have always lived.
Nah, you shouldn’t have said you have no word for this , you have a word, you just don’t use it because it just never comes up in conversation. I have no word as in “What’s special about the night before Halloween?” I once looked up Mischief Night - everything I could find listed in the Wiki article (including Nairing people) happened on Halloween itself.
I’ve always though it was sort of a double pun. The one involving Madison Ave, and the one involving “ad men”
Okay. Whatever works for you.
But I do believe you’ve missed the point of the OP.
No hassle, I don’t really care. Just thought you might wanna reread the the OP.
An idiosyncrasy I used to have: When young, I somehow got it into my head that knowledge is pronounced with a diphthong: /ˈnaʊlədʒ/, as though the first syllable rhymed with “owl.” I was in my 30s before I noticed that I was the only one who said that. Now I say /ˈnɑlədʒ/ with the pure vowel, but when I do I’m still thinking /ˈnaʊlədʒ/ and my lips almost become rounded. Old habit.
The quiz put me in Winston-Salem, Birmingham, or Montgomery. I grew up on the Tennessee/Virginia border, but my parents grew up in central NC. I picked up dialect from both places. Winston-Salem is about 3 hours from where I grew up and 90 minutes or so from where my parents grew up.
Is there method to your madness? I say “root 66”, but “what rowt should I take?”
The PIN/PEN merger, I think.
Try “forte”. As a musical term it’s derived from Italian and is two syllables. Meaning strength or strong point, it’s from French and has only one syllable.
I lived in Michigan as a kid, and Illinois as a teen, so presumably my basic accent is Inland North, slightly modified by my mother’s north-Florida accent. The technical terms used in Wiki’s article on the Northern Cities Vowel Shift (tensing, fronting, lowering, &c) are pretty much gibberish to me, so I don’t know if I share that feature.
I do not have the COT/CAUGHT merger, but do have the FATHER/BOTHER. I also have the full MARY/MERRY/MARRY merger. I found an audio file by a man who pronounces the three words differently, and I pronounce all three as he does Mary. “Fairy”, “ferry”, “Barry” and “bury” all rhyme with Mary.
COT vowel: “rot”, “lot”, &c; “chock” and “chocolate”; “bother”; “doll”
CAUGHT vowel: “log”, “dog”, &c; "chalk*; “ball”, “call”; “talk”
I pronounce the ‘L’ in calm, balm (both of those with the CAUGHT vowel), and almond (the COT vowel), though not in salmon, yolk or folk.
I use “whom” when appropriate. I say “y’all”.
I’ve been reading Christie since I was nine, and Blyton and Ransom since I was thirteen; spent three years in Scotland; and married a woman who had spent seven years (high school and college) in Ireland. As a result, I’ve picked up several British English terms such as pram and boot (the luggage compartment of a car).
I spent three years in Hawai`i, but I think I’ve purged all of that from my active vocabulary.
21.5 years in the Navy has also had a lasting effect on my vocabulary.
And I’m sure there are other odditiesin the way I talk. 
A few of my personal speech idiosyncrasies:
- I pronounce “either” and “neither” as “EYE-thir” and “NYE-thir” (more typically a UK pronunciation), rather than “EE-thir”/“NEE-thir.” I think I started doing that in college, probably in an effort to sound educated.
- Despite being essentially a lifelong Midwesterner, I sometimes say “y’all,” and even “all y’all.” I blame spending the last decade working with clients in Alabama for that one.
I started saying eye-thur & nye-thur because I liked the sound better. I don’t know what I said originally.
I started as a result of my three years of high-school German – ei is pronounced 'eye" in German.
I habitually say /raʊt/, except when overcome by social pressure/shaming about saying it the wrong way.
I grew up in Florida, which has a unique divide: in the Northern part of the state you have a Southern accent, but the further south you go the more it becomes a traditional American neutral accent.
I was born in Daytona, which is on the east coast slightly north of Orlando, but my formative years were spent in the suburbs of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale. Most of my peers were upper middle class, and predominantly Jewish.
So I have a typical American accent, whereas my cousins who stayed in Daytona have more of a southern twang in their speech.
ETA: I just recalled something: my grandmother, who was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised my father around Cape Canaveral, Florida, used to pounce Italian as “eye-talian.” She was very Southern.
ETA2: The quiz put my in Arlington or Irving Texas, but included my part of Florida within its map region.
I use multiple pronunciations and different words dependent on context, usually as a form of conscious code switching. This is particularly because I grew up in the US (although not New York where the quiz placed me) but live in London, so it depends on where I am and who I’m speaking to. Bit of a mess really.
This time the quiz put me strongly in the western great lakes region, with a minor in the southwest, neither of which I have lived in. Last quiz like this I took, it did place a minor western great lakes influence on me, so perhaps that dialect reached a bit into western ny.
I do as well, and I have no experience in/with the South. I think it’s one of those constructions that kind of have filtered into other American dialects. I usually default to “you guys”, but every once in awhile “y’all” comes out.
This should be an unlocked version of the Times test:
And why shouldn’t it? English apparently has a need for specific second-person plural pronoun (which “you” no longer is), and “y’all” fills that empty niche well enough.
That worked, thanks. It put me in Oakland/ San Jose, which isn’t ridiculous, but I’m from San Diego.
There is some debate among speakers of Southern U.S. English as to whether “y’all” is singular and/or plural – and one can find instances in which it used both ways. “All y’all” is definitely plural, and typically is used for “every one of you” or “all of you.”
That one was good. It picked Orlando and St Petersburg, Florida, which is pretty close to where I live.
I don’t know that there’s any debate among actual southerners. I’ve only heard it used by actors/voice actors trying to sound “southern”. I’ve never heard it used in real life.