‘Where you are from based on your dialect’ quiz in the New York Times

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Really interesting little quiz.
Doesn’t ask for any details so no data harvesting.

It got me down to about 15 miles from where I grew up.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html?smid=tw-share

It askes great questions like do door and poor rhyme.

It knew where I grew up. Despite living in Scotland for the last 20 years and incorporating a lot of Scottish words into my dialect, it knew I was from Leeds. That's clever!

It was accurate for where I was born even though I grew up elsewhere. I guess my parents had a lot more influence on the way I speak than my peers

My map won't load it's just blank

Spot on for me.

Not great for me. Had me as Glasgow but I’m East coast

My dialect is odd, having parents from Lancashire and East Anglia and an accent somewhere between the two. It's almost spot on though, giving me two areas where it thinks I was brought up based on my answers!

Amazing...! Got me & linked to where my parents are from

I didn't get a map

Really interesting.. it guessed I grew upwhere my mother's from so obviously she had the greatest influence on how I speak. This is most certainly true as she hated the accent where we grew up and was forever correcting us. It worked!

It was about 50 miles off for me, but not bad!

Wow! Got where I grew up and where I live now. Fun and very interesting. Thanks OP

It said I was either from the Cheshire/Lancashire region or the Wolverhampton area. I’m from Cheshire so pretty good!

It got me right too.

it didn't work I did it twice with my same answers and at the end there wasn't a map for me, it was just blank

does it ask everyone at the end where they were raised?

Er no. Not even close.

I didn't get a map either...not loading. ☹️

Got it totally wrong.

However I suspect that is because I grew up in Yorkshire however my dad was Irish/London and my mum was from the midlands. I went to private school and had soeach and drama lessons. Then moved further north. Then moved to London.

So quite a confused accent you might say!

Pretty close.....Southend / Dover.

80 miles off for me! But to be fair, where I grew up is odd - Solihull - my dialect is sort of posh Birmingham so it’s no wonder it was confused really.

Got me spot on! I love stuff like this.

Pretty rubbish for me - it said Portsmouth or Norfolk. Only been to each place once in my life!! Grew up in a posh town in Kent and now live in SE London. To be fair though I do have 'forrin' parents and husband so maybe that skewed my results.

completely wrong for me, apparently I come from either the West Country (south Dorset/Devon) or the East Midlands. When in fact I'm from London and have never lived anywhere else.

I do, however, have a Scottish mother.

Spot on !

ha! I've fucked their algorithm... they're about 500 miles out.