‘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

I always confuse these types of survey. I spent a few years of my childhood picking up a generic southern accent before moving back to my native area. I did pick up a bit of dialect, but not the pronounciation. I've then spent my adult years in another region and still sound genericly southern. Added to that I have family all over the country and DH with a very distinctive accent so my influences are quite broad.

The DCs have a funny fusion accent. I can hear the words they hear most frequently in my "southern" tones and the more localised vocabulary from school in local tones. Going "oop t'the baath" is my favourite!

Spot on for me too, I have quite a 'neutral' accent and it came out red along the whole east coast of Ireland but also patches on the west coast of Ireland. I did it with my friend who has a much more regional accent and his came out very specific to his area and not as 'general' to the whole country. It's really interesting!

Spookily accurate for me - it got my home town in the West Country and my mother's home town 70 miles away as a second cluster. I moved away 25 years ago. I don't - to my knowledge - sound West Country accent. And I gave a number of answers which individually it mapped onto Scotland/NI (paternal family). It still got me. Quite impressive.

On the other hand....total, utter, epic fail for DH. It picked a part of the country miles from anywhere he or his family have ever lived!
He is quite proud of having confused the hell out of the algorithm.

Unbelievable how right it was.

Got me down to a very small (UK) island I come from.

It was correct for both my parents. Dad in particular uses many old dialect words (born 1930 in Hull).

After filling in the extra 90 odd questions yesterday and say were I was from, it finally tonight placed me in the right area (I used a different device)

I noticed that the amount of respondents has sky rocketed since yesterday too.

I only got about 40 questions it was fairly accurate.
But I don't get the finger, singer thing

How do they not sound the same????

bsc the extra questions came up, when after the 3rd time off getting a blank map, I decided to put in where I am from, I then got another 96 questions.

“But I don't get the finger, singer thing

How do they not sound the same????“

I say finger with a longer er sound than singer, sort of fing-er and singr

Farm and palm rhyming should have extra options, they don’t even have the same number of syllables the way I say farm, lol

Interesting. It got within 40 miles of where I was brought up and 20 miles from where I lived for 10 years. Quite accurate really.

Spot on for me

It said I was from Scarborough, and I am Sheffield. So not far out and I have a lot of family from the East Riding.

Mine had Exeter and my home town on it (near London).
Though, some phrases wouldn’t be of much use as I’m bilingual, and would use different language speaking about my family.

I’ve done it a few times and had Portsmouth, reading, Cambridge.... er, north London is the right answer dammit! It doesn’t seem to recognise N London at all!

Very good guess for me. I spent early childhood in one area with a distinctive dialect, but moved 300 miles away at the age of 5. I think I use words mainly from where I grew up rather than my birthplace- apparently not!
It was about 50 miles out, but understandably so.

Spot on for mine too. Swansea.

It got me totally wrong. Came up with Peterborough. I've never even been there and am from East yorkshire. Got DP wrong too, it said Stoke on Trent and he's from west Yorkshire.

With the finger/singer rhyming question, I wondered if it was the G sound? In my accent it's much harder and more pronounced in the word finger. In other accents the G would sound the same.

Also as a PP said, there's much more accent on the first syllable of finger.

Didn't get me with the first set of questions but got me with the next set!

In my cockney (which is very broad but still never shows up on this thing, I’ve done it 3 times and the additional questions) you barely hear the G in singer at all. Finger is more like Fing-gaa.

Miles out.
Several possible spots down near the south coast.
Brought up in the Midlands, lived even further north for 16 years.

No my ‘cockney’ (not born underneath the sound of the Bow bells) wasn’t picked up either @Iampicklerick

Maybe it doesn’t exist after all.... EastEnders duff duffs

I don’t call my mum an old dear, and no one has said “brass monkeys” in about 30 years.

We do say it’s “tay-ters” when it’s cold. Like potatoes. Not sure why 😂

Although it’s probably closer to tate-eers because of the glottal stop!

Ah, London.

Where did it put you mama?

Accurate for me (Glasgow) and I thought it might not be as I don’t use a lot of what I think of as local dialect.