This is a quiz, showing which regions of the US your dialect derives from. It had this fascinating question, among others:
Also, “I have no term or expression for this” is my new default signal to others, well, the literal sentiment. Sometimes I don’t have a term or expression for what we are discussing, and now I know that is a sentence people say to each other, at least in quizzes…
My map showed…
Which makes sense. I was raised in Appalachia, the Bible Belt, and California (and tv). Hence my charming medley of jibber-jabber. 