Following on from another slightly tasteless thread, here is the New York Times dialect quiz aimed at the British. Supposed to tell you where you were brought up.
I've seen some results where people are apparently astonished at how accurate it is; for me, it just gave me a map covering a large belt of Southern England and a bit of Wales, so if anyone else wants to try and post the results, I'd be interested to know if it ever gets any more specific.
25 quick questions.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 28 Feb 19 at 17:32
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Well I'm damned.
It gave me the name of two towns in the same area of the UK. One of them was correct.
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For me it coloured in an area south of a line from Bristol to the Wash, I said I come from Portsmouth, Dover or Luton.
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>> For me it coloured in an area south of a line from Bristol to the
>> Wash, I said I come from Portsmouth, Dover or Luton.
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Interesting - I come from Portsmouth, and it put me between Dover and Luton......but it pinpointed our daughter-in-law in Bath, which was absolutely correct.
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A belt across north of England from Blackpool/S Lakes to Whitby/Flamborough Head. Leeds was pretty much in middle and in area of highest probability so not that far off.
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I got a big band from Lancashire to Hull, although it did say Leeds as well which isn't too far out.
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Interesting but, for me, not so close. Had me mostly a bit north of Luton, with quite a bit of south east Kent where I lived (in my 30s) for about 18 months, and also a line along Oxfordshire/Gloucester which I've hardly even visited!
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Got me pretty close to my roots as well
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The missus did narrowed it down to two counties, one of which was right. City it picked was within 40 miles of her place of birth.
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Quite a large area between London and Brighton. So, not wrong, but not very refined.
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That's three of us it puts around Luton - I can't deny it!
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The first section showed a number of scattered areas, but the longer version got it better.
Generally the eastern part of England from Reading and south of the Bristol/ Wash line. Surprisingly darker areas of Dover/Kent and Reading to South coast corridor. Several people here also seem to have the similar unexpected Dover influence. But definitely Home Counties North, not South.
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Pretty accurate considering I might have confused it a bit. I grew up in a village on the edge of the Peak District where a rural Sheffield dialect was the norm but went to school in Penistone where it was more of a mix of dialects from rural areas between Barnsley and Huddersfield.
As Bromp said in the other thread, dialects can be very localised. Accents can also be very localised. The difference between a Sheffield accent and a Barnsley accent is amazing considering they are less than 20 miles apart.
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Well they made me think..
Has me down for some where called Saint Peter Port which seems to be off the coast of France!
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>> Well they made me think..
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>> Has me down for some where called Saint Peter Port which seems to be off
>> the coast of France!
Guernsey.
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Not wrong. The area shown after the larger set of questions showed much of west, south and north Yorkshire excluding the Hull area and the Vale of York by the look of it.
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I was intrigued so I've done the full 96 questions. Apparently I'm from a rectangular splodge roughly cornered by Preston, Helmsley, Scunthorpe and Sheffield.
I think of myself as from North Yorkshire as I was born near Ripon but I've lived in Leeds and 2 of its northern suburbs before moving to near (the northern) Richmond. I've worked in Leeds, Wakefield, Mansfield and Spennymoor so I've no idea where the Lancashire influence came from.
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Manchester with a bit of Stoke-on-Trent. Which is right really since I left home for Stoke Poly.
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I can only assume your answers alter the number of questions. I've done it twice now, to make sure, and it only asks me 25 questions and then gives me the map, with, as mentioned above, a huge area defined.
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For me, it all goes TU with the scone (own or on) question. Answer the "own" and it defaults to Southern Ireland, which is clearly a lowd or owld cowblers
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>> For me, it all goes TU with the scone (own or on) question. Answer the
>> "own" and it defaults to Southern Ireland, which is clearly a lowd or owld cowblers
Scon or Scowne and Al mond or Ormond when talking of nuts were (IIRC) things that my Yorkshire (Leeds)Mother and Lancashire (Rochdale) Father differed over.
Yorkshire and Lancashire are/were both large counties. No certainty that pronunciation is SE Lancs would be same as in Lakes fringes or that Sheffield and Redcar would have same pronunciation.
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Al mond or Ormond?
They’re armunds!
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Dialect quiz - No FM2R
