‘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

Got me 100% correct!

I got 96 more questions. I gave up.

I got either Cambridge or Brighton and I'm from a town in Kent (though with a parent from the East Midlands - who also spent a portion of her childhood in Asia).

@laquila - singer is pronounced sing - err with a soft g and finger is pronounced fing - ger with a hard g. How do you pronounce them to sound the same?!

@laquila - that was quite hard to write out phonetically I guess you use a hard g for singer as well??

Spot on for me.

I say a hard g in both finger and singer.

Mine got the city nearest to where I spent my first decade and then my university town as its second guess, so I'm pretty impressed!

82 miles for me 😕

Epic fail for me! it couldn't decide where I am from and gave four options none of which I have ever lived in, visited nor have any familial connection to.

Most of the southeast for me including east Anglia. The most accurate question for me was what do you call skiving off school. Bunking off seems to be a Herts phrase.

I needed to do the second half of the questionnaire but it got me within 30 miles, which is pretty good as I have moved around a bit and had parents and grandparents from different parts of the country.

Bang on for me despite living in a few different places over the past 20 years!

I am a brummie. Had me in Manchester

Spot on for where I grew up.

Mine was totally confused by having two parents from different places with strong regional dialects. It appears many words from both dialects have been incorporated into my speech. I didn't grow up where either parent is from, so I've also gained the vernacular of my peers.

Spot on. The bulk of colour was where I grew up with three more spots of colour. 1 where I live before now, 1 were so live now and 1 were my parents lived. These are 1 on each point of the compass.

I like that game.
Some of my answers are a bit obvious tho

Not particularly accurate other than it knew I'm from the north / north east. Gave three options, two of which were pretty far out.

Spot on for me. Liverpool

Has anyone done it on an android phone? Don't know why my map isn't working.

Wow! They got the city I was born in and the place I grew up was 10 miles away!

it's not ip address as I live about 350 miles from where I grew up but it was pretty spot on with west midlands

It had me as reading or Peterborough!

Nope, not even close.

I had a line down from Lincoln to Exeter so not very precise, I’m afraid.

Spot on!!