‘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 got me firmly in the south but not my city, had me as London which but grow up in Oxfordshire so is 40/50 miles out. My dad is from London though! My mum and grandparents are from reading so that could be why.

Really interesting... It put me on Devon/Cornwall with shading in a diagonal line from Bristol up to Norfolk... With hot-spots in the area I grew up, plus some random areas around London, South coast and Kent.

My Mum is from Devon but I think it's trying to tell me that I'm a generic Southerner

Gave me 3 possible towns, one of which is correct.

It got it right for me, but it did make me laugh that scone was chosen as a word. In my wee village the children had rows about how to say it, depending on how our families have taught us

Accurate for where I was born, raised and now live again where I was born.

Someone mentioned how could horse and hoarse be ptonounced differently.

I'm midlands Irish and pronounce horse as "hurse" and hoarse as "hoarse".

Mine was completely wrong!

I got Oxford and then Brighton. I’m from East London/Essex 🤔

I re did it with all 96 questions, this time it was just South East and London, which was more accurate

Got me totally right with a little bit of wales selected too but I expect that is a South west/South Wales cross over on some words.
Given I've lived in London off and on for that last 20 years I was surprised not to have any patches in the london area though.

Put me in Blackpool 😂

I'm from Bradford so it's a step up!

Told me Middlesbrough but showed Cumbria. Spot on.

I’m from the Channel Islands, which wasn’t on the map, but it put me on the south coast so close enough.
I actually live in Cheshire now so had to be careful not to include words that I have picked up since living here.

I cleared my cookies, redid it and added some specific local dialect words in the 'other' boxes and it located me spot on.

Well it put me around Blackpool and the North West. I was born in the North East, but grew up in the South. My accent is a hot mess of Newcastle and Reading!

Mine said “way off”. Obviously I must have a strange mixture of accent/vocabulary!

Spot on!!!

Birmingham. Must have been 'bab' and 'mom' that gave it away

It got me right, where I was born and partly raised, where I lived for far too long and where I live now.

I wasn't surprised at all for mine got me for a city about half an hour away and also one in the west Midlands I'm from the east Midlands but I've been asked if I'm from this place before.

I think the highest cluster of dark red is more accurate than the town or city that’s named.

Some different questions to mine! A lot of fun but basically gave me most of England!

Spot on! I’m from Edinburgh but have lived in Glasgow for a few years.

I’m from the Channel Islands

It was on mine when I did it on the ipad.

Mine is a huge area - Blackpool to Dundee -probably because I moved around a lot. It did highlight Edinburgh though and I lived there for years.

It was on mine when I did it on the ipad

Was it? It obviously didn’t place me there then. I have lived away for an awful long time though.