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Has anyone done the British-Irish dialect quiz?

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swirlette · 15/02/2019 12:53

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

Everyone on Twitter seems to be getting really accurate answers but it put me firmly South West & I've only been there twice! I can only think my mix of growing up in one part of the country with parents from another confused it...

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HumptyNumptyNooNoo · 16/02/2019 15:27

It was spot on for me !

Fontella · 16/02/2019 15:33

It's very good.

I'm Welsh but have lived in the South of England for many years and the area it shows both those areas in my results.

BrizzleMint · 16/02/2019 15:34

It gives you an option to do more questions to get a more accurate result. I think there's 90 odd questions overall.

@Sakura7 does it? I couldn't see that option anywhere.

JaneJeffer · 16/02/2019 15:35

I did the extra questions and it gave me a different county but still wrong.

Parthenope · 16/02/2019 15:41

Brizzle -- I got to the extra questions by filling in my actual place of birth in the box at the end of the basic version.

JazzyBBG · 16/02/2019 16:08

Slightly north of me for where I'm from but given my mum is northern not a complete surprise!

Boobahs · 16/02/2019 16:17

Spot on for me too!

Toddlerteaplease · 16/02/2019 16:22

Very accurate for me. East Midlands.

Applesaregreenandred · 16/02/2019 16:23

Mine gave me a town about 10 miles to the north of where I live / was brought up so it was fairly accurate .

As other posters have said there are particular words it has picked out which are mainly used in this general area .

HunterHearstHelmsley · 16/02/2019 16:28

Spot on.

cardibach · 16/02/2019 16:33

It was close, but it’ll be hampered by not actually being very accurate about dialectical usage - for example it gave ‘nesh’ as an option for want you might say if you were cold, along with freezing etc. Nesh is a midland dialect word for someone who is soft, particularly in relation to bad weather, so not quite the same thing...

icannotremember · 16/02/2019 16:40

Insanely accurate. Has both the area I was born and lived the first part of my childhood, and the area we moved to and I finished growing up in, highlighted. That is weird. I'm impressed!

RoseMartha · 16/02/2019 17:43

It was very accurate especially when i did extended version.

woodhill · 16/02/2019 17:44

Very accurate

Doobydoobeedoo · 16/02/2019 18:05

Mine put me in Scarborough or Wales.

I've never been to Scarborough in my life and have only passed through Wales a couple of times. Confused

LadyLannister · 16/02/2019 18:08

Spot on for me.

origamiunicorn · 16/02/2019 18:12

It put me smack in the middle between the place I grew up and the place I've lived for over a decade so I suppose that makes sense Grin

whocaresalot · 16/02/2019 18:48

I did it twice. First time it got it right but two of the questions had answers that are very unique to where I live. The second time I chose more universal answers to just those two questions and got something totally different.

grumiosmum · 16/02/2019 18:51

Spot on for me.

I still live within 25 miles of where I grew up though.

SpeedyBojangles · 16/02/2019 22:21

Yep, spot on!

Alison100199 · 16/02/2019 22:31

Worryingly accurate!

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