‘Where you are from based on your dialect’ quiz in the New York Times

[ChesterGreySideboard]

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

Yep, got me in Lincolnshire

But put my husband in Leeds which is wrong

Food rhymes with mooed but not lewd. Lewd rhymes with sued.

Good rhymes with wood but not with mud or budwhich rhyme with each other 😂

BestIsWest

Good, food, wood and lewd all sound the same

*amusedbush. It’s fascinating!

amused are you Scottish? My Scottish friend pronounces them all the same.

Great fun. Also this link on the same page
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/upshot/the-word-choices-that-explain-why-jane-austen-endures.html?action=click&contentCollection=The+Upshot&contentID=WhatsNext&module=WhatsNext&moduleDetail=undefined&pgtype=Multimedia&region=Footer&version=WhatsNext

Correct for me.
How do you pronounce but and put so they don't rhyme?

Oh but and put is a long standing argument in my house. DH is from the midlands so to him they rhyme and put is pronounced with the same sound as in the middle of cup or hut.
To me put is pronounced with a short oo sound, like hook or book.

Got where I am now but not even a hint of where I grew up

Didn't get it for me.... put me on the east coast, I've never even been.

It got DPs uni location but not where he grew up.

It couldn’t pinpoint me but because I sometimes still use the word wean it knew I was Scottish. But I haven’t lived there in such a long time so I don’t use other words

Spot on for me.

@Wandaaa
But as in butt
Put as in poot

Putt (like in golf) would rhyme.

DH got the town 5 miles away. He was cynical at first.

Thanks for the but and put explanation

It had me as Cambridge but I'm from London.

Had me as Cambridge or Norwich and I grew up close to the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border so spot on!

Kept crashing when I tried to do the further questions though.

got me right - west coast of scotland with a wee red flare over fife and i had a fife childminder when i was wee...

Did get me at all.

However I lived in northern England then moved at 10 and lived in Scotland, then after uni moved to London.

It’s no wonder my accent is very strange!

That should be Did not get me

I've just done the further questions and it still says Cambridge but the map area is much smaller. Neither or my parents are Londoners so maybe I've got a mismatched vocab.

I was born in Leeds lived there for a year or so then moved to Manchester then Lancashire when I was 6 it put me in Leeds

Mine was spot on. Despite the fact that I’ve picked up a lot of dialect from where I live now. Clever! Although I had to think very hard about some answers and often I say things differently depending on how long the sentence is or how far towards full flow I am when saying them 😂

Food f-uhw-d
mooed m-uwh-d
lewd l-uhw-d
sued s-uwh-d

Good g-uh-d
wood w-uh-d
mud m-uh-d
bud b-uh-d

Exactly right for me!