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Interactive quiz to place where you were raised.

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MaizieD Fri 15-Feb-19 11:17:54

This is fun.

An interactive quiz in the New York Times tries to place where you were brought up by the way you pronounce some words, and, words you use for things.

It got me, correctly, in the South of England but in the area to the northwest of London, whereas I was an Essex girl!

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

JessK Fri 15-Feb-19 12:08:40

I'm a north London girl and it placed me in Cambridge in a sweep right across to the Bristol Channel!

Fennel Fri 15-Feb-19 12:13:27

I've just done the quiz qnd it's accurate for me. ie mostly around Newcastle on Tyne plus a big Hull influence.
I lived in Hull for 20+ years of my adult life.

knickas63 Fri 15-Feb-19 12:38:18

Bloody Portsmouth!! As a Southampton/Forest girl, I am appalled! Lol smile

tanith Fri 15-Feb-19 12:38:39

I got Luton,Cardiff and Taunton I’ve lived in London all my life.?

Charleygirl5 Fri 15-Feb-19 13:36:20

It placed me in the highlands whereas I was born and brought up near St. Andrews.

Jane10 Fri 15-Feb-19 13:38:37

It couldn't place me!! No map. Very disappointed.

ninathenana Fri 15-Feb-19 13:39:58

I couldn't see a result sad

J52 Fri 15-Feb-19 13:52:29

Born and raised in London, it was spot on!

Maggymay Fri 15-Feb-19 13:59:20

Placed me between Gloucester and Taunton. I live in Bristol but was brought up in Gloucestershire.

FountainPen Fri 15-Feb-19 14:14:09

London and Norwich which is accurate as born and spent half my life in London but have lived in East Anglia for last three decades.

MiniMoon Fri 15-Feb-19 14:24:16

I had no map either. The small maps that showed where the words for different things eg. bap, bun were accurate though. I was brought up in North East Cumberland, almost into Northumberland.

Anniebach Fri 15-Feb-19 14:29:46

Between Swansea and Aberystwyth

M0nica Fri 15-Feb-19 14:32:49

It wasn't quite fair of me to do this. My DF was in the army. In my childhood I lived in London, Carlisle, South Yorkshire, Hong Kong (American English), Singapore and Berkshire. As an adult: Newcastle, London, Berkshire

The test showed my vocabulary as coming from a broad sweep of territory from Norfolk to Surrey with concentrations in Norfolk, Cambridge and Essex-London-Surrey. Where the bias towards East Anglia/home counties, north of the Thames comes from I have no idea. No family connections there at all. My parents were both brought up in South London

There was a soft haze of colour over the Northeast, where I went to University and a lighter haze over South Wales and Somerset, another area I have no connections with.

Interestingly nothing marked in Ireland despite having two Irish grandparents, one on each side.

NanKate Fri 15-Feb-19 14:35:07

Gloucester, Bath, Portsmouth.

Actually brought up in Birmingham but the darkest colour on the map did show the Midlands.

JackyB Fri 15-Feb-19 14:47:56

No map. Just a sadface smiley. So many of them weren't right. I would say "skive" not "skive off" and for many of them my word wasn't in the list. My son says he met someone when he was backpacking in Canada who could place not only his accent (born in Germany but grew up bilingual) but could also locate the accent that he had picked up through me as Suffolk. Spot on and most amazing.

cavewoman Fri 15-Feb-19 14:52:18

Between Ipswich and Bournemouth.Spot on as I'm bang in the middle!

FlexibleFriend Fri 15-Feb-19 15:07:35

They got me right even though there's a massive difference between the way people in Cambridge speak to those in Southend so they cast a wide net. Londoners can tell whether I'm from North or South London and would never think I was from Cambridge.

bluebirdwsm Fri 15-Feb-19 15:11:23

I was shown to be from Taunton/Portsmouth. I was brought up in Bristol from age 2, but heard dialect at home from my family who lived most of their lives in Leicestershire but had moved to Bristol.

So a bit inaccurate.

Mapleleaf Fri 15-Feb-19 16:08:33

It didn't seem to know where to place me, the map was blank!

callgirl1 Fri 15-Feb-19 16:15:09

Where do I find the questions?

MaizieD Fri 15-Feb-19 16:26:59

The questions are on the web page I linked to, callgirl. I wonder if the site is a bit busy and that's why it's not always working properly; it was very popular on my twitter timeline!

SalsaQueen Fri 15-Feb-19 16:34:28

Spot on! I think it was the term "cob", for a bread roll, that did it!

Greyduster Fri 15-Feb-19 16:35:23

It certainly put me in Yorkshire - just the wrong bit of Yorkshire!

callgirl1 Fri 15-Feb-19 16:35:27

All I`m getting is a long spiel by the author. Will try later.