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Where did you grow up dialect quiz.

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MadeOfAllWork · 16/10/2023 20:10

This was doing the rounds a few years ago but I remembered it today and posted it on another thread.
However I thought it deserved a wider audience.

For some reason the New York Times made a quiz that can pinpoint where you grew up with amazing accuracy.

Enjoy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

The British-Irish Dialect Quiz (Published 2019)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer 25 questions to see your own custom dialect map.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

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ErrolTheDragon · 16/10/2023 23:41

It didn't do a good job on me either - my parents were one Lancashire, one Yorkshire (neither 'broad' though); raised in Essex and then lived in brum, Yorkshire, US and lancs. It came up with vague middle of the south, nowhere near any of my formative locations.

Wrongsideofpennines · 16/10/2023 23:56

Got it for me because of tipple tails. Who knew that was such a localised word!

Oakbeam · 17/10/2023 00:00

I completed it twice and it didn’t come up with an answer both times.

mamaduckbone · 17/10/2023 00:02

I got Nottingham, which isn't quite right but still East Midlands. Apparently calling a fizzy drink 'pop' and PE shoes 'plimsolls' are the most identifiable characteristics

PicturesOfDogs · 17/10/2023 00:05

I just learned the game of ‘Add’ we always used to play, is actually ‘had’.
Makes a lot more sense now! 😂

Oakbeam · 17/10/2023 00:12

Tried it again using Safari rather than Chrome and got a result. Not even close.

I have moved around a bit though, which may explain it.

Apparently calling a fizzy drink 'pop' and PE shoes 'plimsolls' are the most identifiable characteristics

That may be what threw my results off, despite the fact that I grew up nowhere near Nottingham or the East Midlands.

DramaAlpaca · 17/10/2023 00:31

I've seen this before. It's very accurate. It pinpointed the exact area I grew up in, plus the place in which I live now. For adult DS it placed him where we live now, which is where he grew up. Impressive.

ErrolTheDragon · 17/10/2023 00:38

mamaduckbone · 17/10/2023 00:02

I got Nottingham, which isn't quite right but still East Midlands. Apparently calling a fizzy drink 'pop' and PE shoes 'plimsolls' are the most identifiable characteristics

I'm not sure that plimsolls alone is very identifiable - I thought that, or 'pumps' was the default if your area didn't have a dialect word.

Iamlikesorry · 17/10/2023 00:46

I used Edge to play the game

PinkMoscatoLover · 17/10/2023 00:48

LexieLoos · 16/10/2023 21:14

Wow good tip! That worked for me, thank you:)

975zyx · 17/10/2023 00:49

It got the town where I grew up, which surprised me.

GrandTheftWalrus · 17/10/2023 00:54

Miles away for me. However people from my home town and people from Ayrshire actually use the same slang words so it's picked that up.

PinkMoscatoLover · 17/10/2023 00:57

I got Ipswich and I’m from London so😅

HopeSpringsInfernal · 17/10/2023 01:10

Pretty accurate- it put me 3 miles from where I grew up. I couldn't work out where the extra questions were though, which might've been interesting

EeesandWhizz · 17/10/2023 01:26

It put me in the right county, mostly because of 'twagging it' from school!

slithytoveisascientist · 17/10/2023 01:47

AngeloMysterioso · 16/10/2023 22:02

Mine came up with Peterborough/Oxford. You could pretty much split my growing up straight down the middle between Essex and Staffs/Cheshire…I guess it came up with the answer that’s geographically between the two?!

I got the exact same response

I lived in Essex for a decade and moved to Cheshire

How strange

cuthbertthecat · 17/10/2023 05:32

Daps, it's always daps. Take out the daps and I was broadly south which given I live in the West Country with a Welsh dad and a Londoner mum and husband is about right.

With daps it got me bang on.

Findyourneutralspace · 17/10/2023 05:52

Mine gave me the town I was born in. I grew up 10 miles away. Surprised really.
For me it’s pumps, pop and nicking off.
Some of the rhyming questions baffled me!

SinnerBoy · 17/10/2023 06:12

I can't get into it on my mobile. I did it a few years ago and it said was from Northern Ireland, based on "Mam" and "pants," which the compilers did know are used in Newcastle.

To be fair, there's a Newcastle in Northern Ireland and my paternal grandad and maternal grandmother were from Northern Ireland...

Indiaorigin · 17/10/2023 06:19

I got the city nearest where I grew up with lighter where I actually grew up and a medium on the Isle of Man which is pretty far away.

It’s interesting that some of my word use will have come from my parents so not on the list at all.

The rain one I think I’ve used all of them 😀

rubydoobydoo · 17/10/2023 06:38

I've lived in a few parts the country and picked up words from everywhere but I did get a splodge that covered all of them with darker bits in the right places!

Slavetomycat · 17/10/2023 06:42

It got me perfectly where I grew up. It was Cundie, sandshoes and chewny that did it.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 17/10/2023 06:44

Not accurate for me but then I didn’t get offered the extra questions and didn’t get lots of the questions you guys are talking about? No ice lollies or fizzy drinks for me!

VisaWoes · 17/10/2023 06:52

Gave me two fairly close possibilities, one of which is my home town