‘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

Spot on.

90 miles out but I suspect similar accents.

some of it needs fine tuning. Eg, 'nesh' is an option for 'words you would use to say it's cold' but nesh actually describes someone soft who feels the cold too easily.

Exactly what I thought about nesh, Ava

😥no map for me

It got 3 places for me.0ne was spot on,one not too far and the other one miles away.

Very interesting though

They need to sort the map thing out. Very disappointing when you go through all the questions and then no map!

My map showed me as living all over the place but quite London and Home Counties centric . Probably a fair reflection of many moves in adulthood and rejection of my childhood speech patterns.

Mine is all over the place!

Quite close for me. Was interesting to scroll down to see how widely used certain words are, and which words are very local.

How do door and poor not sound the same? Genuine question.

It got me roughly right

And horse and hoarse, no are they pronounced differently?

I'm really impressed. It got me even though I've been living in the West Mids for the last 15 years.

It got me and DH exactly- Ben though we've not lived there for 25 years.

Mine got me within eight miles of where I grew up!

It didn’t quite get where I was raised (but I lived in several places) but one of the places suggested is where I live now.

It really struggled with me I got the whole of Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. I grew up in Suffolk, but my Mum is from West Lothian, my Dad is from Suffolk, but his Mum lived in a number of countries as a child.

It had me between Sheffield and Wolverhampton! I do live in West/South Yorkshire so it's not wrong but neither is it wildly accurate.

Spot in! Got me to 20 miles of where I grew up even though I have not lived there for almost 30 years!

@meow1989 Us Scots say "door" and "poor" and then "horse" and "hoarse" differently. Try saying them with your best Scottish accent!

Spot on with where I was brought up and where I usually live, both thousands of miles away from where I am at the moment.

Pretty accurate for me. Fascinating! Though for the life of me I can’t work out how finger and singer could not rhyme - anyone?!

I've lived in the south east of England for the last 15 years but it got my city in Scotland spot on.

Very interesting. I grew up in one place but have spent my adult life in a completely different place which is actually where my parents are from and it got both locations which is remarkable given that the former is very isolated/rural.

Wow that’s amazing!! Got me pretty much bang on.