‘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

Mine roughly right but my parents are both from different places (other than where I grew up) with regional accents, I left there for London when I was 20 and I've now lived overseas for 10 years.

Some words have also got broader usage from media exposure - e.g. saying "sick" for ill. No-one said that in the south east 40 years ago. We got it from American TV.

It gave me a big ring around London, but not in London (have lived in zone 2 all my life, so hmm)

Spot on for my home town and I haven't lived there for 17 years.

It got my city right. Impressive.

This seems pretty accurate!

Got me right. I did the further questions one too anD it was still right.

Door and poor are complete different for me (South Wales). Door rhymes with four, more, pour. Poor is poo-urrr

Almost bang on, just wrong side of river. Impressed!

@BestIsWest when I say them in a fake posh accent (think the new Mary Poppins) the sound the same and rhyme with pour but in my own accent door rhymes with pour and poor rhymes with ... lure. Took me a minute to think of a word which rhymes with it there haha!

Utterly spot on for me

All I got was a shaded map showing the south east of England. It did name a couple of towns on it. Were they meant to be where I am from? Because they got it wrong.

It’s about 30 miles out for me but it’s my nearest decent sized city and where I went to uni so pretty good.

Reading and Plymouth area high.

Kind of makes sense - grew up in Buckinghamshire and been in a few places in the South West since.

Aberdeen, born there and grew up in the surrounding area.

Got me from 15 miles away

Got me bang on, it's interesting what the key words are that is based it on. Fascinated how some of those words do or don't rhyme

I'm a Londoner but with a Welshmother and Cypriot dad. The map had me mainly all along the south coast , west and wales

I'm impressed, it had me as Central Scotland but a really wide area from Dundee to Glasgow with dark red on Glasgow.

My mum grew up near Dundee, my dad grew up in Lanarkshire, we grew up in Fife (nr Edinburgh, the accent is completely different in other parts of Fife) so we had all those influences.

It thought DD is from Northern Ireland.

She grew up in Maine...

Mine was between Scarborough and Blackpool but more towards the middle. I spent my first 9 years in West Yorkshire and then moved to lancashire and have since lived in London, Oxford and the West Midlands. So fairly close.

I didn't like the question about bread rolls/batch/barms, I use quite a few words although I suppose it depends on who I'm talking to.

I've just gone back and done some extra questions and it has put me firmly in Yorkshire.

I found it annoying that some allowed a fews options and some didn't.

It was spot on for me and identified the City I have lived in since I was 4. I think it knew from a couple of words that are unique to the area, especially one, that upon further research is not used anywhere outside the City.

That's pretty cool, it got me as being from Northern Ireland. Interestingly when I did the extended version it still had NI as my main match area but also highlighted the Edinburgh area where I lived from age 18-29 so all in all highly accurate for me!