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Where did you grow up dialect quiz.

127 replies

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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MWNA · 17/10/2023 06:54

Speeds · 17/10/2023 06:28

I can't see a link that takes me to it. There's one for American regions. I've clicked every other clickable link and none take me to it. Can you screen shot the boot you mean?

tinytemper66 · 17/10/2023 06:56

I can't get past the paywall. I did this years ago but can't remember if it was accurate or not.

DoraChance · 17/10/2023 07:07

I just put 'UK regional accent quiz' into Google and found it that way with no paywall.

ThoseDamnCrows · 17/10/2023 07:09

HipHopBanzai · 16/10/2023 22:20

I opened my browser in incognito mode and it worked fine. It placed me exactly in the area I grew up in rather than the city I've lived in for the last 20 years.

The answers that seemed to really help pinpoint me were maiden (for hanging clothes on to dry), lolly ice, seatie (ride on a back of a bike) and tick (childhood game).

Merseyside? I've only heard Scousers say lolly ice and not ice lolly

RugbySchmugby · 17/10/2023 07:22

These quizzes always put me in the right place, because I don't think there is anywhere else in the world that calls woodlice 'cheeselogs'... there's no need for any other question!

(Reading, Berkshire in case you're wondering)

MyCircumference · 17/10/2023 07:25

nope - still a paywall for me

IWASfemaleatbirthamSTILLFEMALEalwaysbeFEMALEFFS · 17/10/2023 07:25

Ignore that, sorry, just takes you to, the same article. I misheard it.

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MadeOfAllWork · 17/10/2023 07:27

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.

It’s daps for me too.

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RandomQuestionOfTheDay · 17/10/2023 08:30

Mine just gives the whole of the south east. The darkest area is a circle about 20 miles around the town I grew up in, although there is a pale splodge in the middle which I think is the town I grew up in! To be fair it’s a town that’s continually growing and evolving so probably no local words left there and probably changed since I was a child.

SinnerBoy · 17/10/2023 08:54

Well, I've done it on the computer and apparently, I'm from somewhere between Newcastle-Hartlepool and Blackpool-Barrow.

Better than when I last did it!

ReturnOfTheRainMac · 17/10/2023 10:03

Speeds · 17/10/2023 06:28

I used this. It felt American and says I'm from Glendale...

Drews · 17/10/2023 10:06

Mine was pretty accurate with the south west general area. I did the extra questions and it gave the same answer with a little bit of east midlands which is a bit spooky as I did live there for 10 years. I didn't think I picked up any dialect from when I lived there.

NotMyKallax · 17/10/2023 10:08

RugbySchmugby · 17/10/2023 07:22

These quizzes always put me in the right place, because I don't think there is anywhere else in the world that calls woodlice 'cheeselogs'... there's no need for any other question!

(Reading, Berkshire in case you're wondering)

Same!

Although the other questions placed me equally strongly in North Norfolk for some reason - never even been there.

Sahara123 · 17/10/2023 10:15

Not very accurate for me , too far up the south coast and also Bristol. Should be more south Devon.

TallulahBetty · 17/10/2023 10:18

Wow. Scarily accurate!

Bassetlover · 17/10/2023 10:25

Yup, very accurate!

IamSmarticus · 17/10/2023 10:43

I finally managed to bypass the paywall, it was very accurate for me - came up with area between Manchester and Wolverhampton highlighted, with Stoke-on-Trent named right in the middle. Correct!

Natsku · 17/10/2023 11:16

Mine showed roughly the two areas I grew up in, on opposite sides of the country.

SheerLucks · 17/10/2023 14:52

Paywall unfortunately

pleasefuckinggodno · 17/10/2023 16:16

I didn’t get the paywall like others. However, the NYT has suggested my accent is from Luton (I grew up in Crouch End!).

lingmerth · 17/10/2023 22:48

Spot on for me!

ILikeStrictly · 17/10/2023 23:13

Completely wrong for me at first, but pretty accurate when I did the second lot of questions.

I recognised a lot of the words as ones I might use now, but only gave the ones I remember from the first few years of my life, before we moved west and south.

emmaw1405 · 18/10/2023 00:06

IamSmarticus · 17/10/2023 10:43

I finally managed to bypass the paywall, it was very accurate for me - came up with area between Manchester and Wolverhampton highlighted, with Stoke-on-Trent named right in the middle. Correct!

Accurate for me as well in the same area - Wolverhampton to Stoke on Trent. I'm from a small village outside Wolverhampton but which comes under South Staffordshire rather than the West Midlands.

1stWorldProblems · 18/10/2023 23:07

Once I got to it, it was quite accurate on the first lot & then v accurate on the full set of questions. Interesting

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