‘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

@silversun83 thank you but I’m none the wiser! 😂

I’ve said them both about 54 times in the past two minutes and now neither of them sound like real words! But yes, I say a hard g for both - finger, singer, linger, winger, bringer...all these thyme for me.

*rhyme, obvs!

@laquila Do you say sing with a hard g too? It's really hard to write it phonetically so I'm trying up think of another word where there is a soft g! (And sing is also starting to not sound like a word!!)

How do you pronounce ring?! Like rinG? And what about any word ending in ing? For us, ing is a soft sound in most words, eg swimming, walking, running.. the g isn't really pronounced like it would be in finger. Down these parts, a lazy speaker could easily miss off the g so they could be pronounced swimmin', walkin' to give you a better idea?! But finger is entirely different and pronounced how you probably pronounce it!

Spot on. I was surprised because my parents are from elsewhere and I spent quite a lot of years living away from the area so don’t have much of the local accent.

Yep got exactly the right city.

It got me right, but one of my answers was a very regional word.

It got me within 20 miles & I left in 1980 although I go back often. Brilliant.

It got me right, but some of the regional words were way off because both my parents are from completely different parts of the UK from where I grew up.

Super integrering! I’ve grown up in a non English speaking country with one Irish parent and some of my answers are all over the place because my English is so influenced by other accents, so the map didn’t know what to make of me 😂

Not even close!! However, I've moved all over the world, and all round the West Country and Surrey area (parents kept moving, not even an army family!!) and lots of people can't work out where my accent is from.

Got me right too but like a pp, there is a very specific regional word I reckon got me (I am from the SW with a Welsh family)

I chose words/pronunciations that I was brought up with but don't use now & it practically gave me my childhood street.

To be honest though only the question about what I call slippers would be needed to pin down where I was brought up 🙈🤣

My dad had family in the other side of the country and spent holidays these so he had some pronunciations from there. Mum was born elsewhere, moved across the country as a child then ended up where we were, so lots of variations!

To be honest though only the question about what I call slippers would be needed to pin down where I was brought up 🙈🤣

If you do the further questions then one is ‘what do you call slippers’. I didn’t realise that anyone called them anything other than slippers.

Puts me halfway between Reading and Cambridge. Not so far off south Lonfon then, but with parents from the south coast and the NE, my dialect is all over the place.

No good for me but to be fair I have parents from opposite ends of the country and have lived in four completely different parts of the country for many years each so have picked up regional dialects and parts of different accents from all of them.

So no wonder it was confused!

I'm midlands Irish and pronounce horse as "hurse" and hoarse as "hoarse".
Midlander here too and I assumed Horse as in Os and hoarse as in oarse

Spot on for me. Have forwarded to my DBs, one has lived overseas for over 30 years where he speaks another language a lot so will be interested in his results. Thanks for this OP, really interesting.

If you do the further questions then one is ‘what do you call slippers’. I didn’t realise that anyone called them anything other than slippers.

I did the extra questions too OP.

I've lost count of the amount of times people have looked at me as if I've just sprouted an extra head when I call them baffies.

I also had to add my own name for grandfather as Di wasn't an option.

Is 'baffies' Scottish? I'd assume Scotland or the North East but it's not a term I've ever heard.

@BrizzleMint it's a Fife word apparently

Can anyone explain how Good and Food rhyme?

Fooooooood
Gooooooood

It didn't get me right. However, it suggested I came from the place 150 miles away where both my parents came from. I doubt that's a coincidence.

Yeah Lord not helpful 😂

Food rhymes with lewd, rude, sued, mooed
Good rhymes with mud, wood, mud, bud