Does your dialect give your location away

[memory man]

For each question, choose whichever answer comes closest to how you talk casually with friends.


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... -quiz.html


It's pretty accurate for me.

[PW in Polemi]

But I don't have a dialect or regional accent. It's everybody else wot speaks funny, like!

[Anarita John]

Quite accurate. I was raised in Ormskirk and lived all of my working life in Rochdale and it said I was from the Blackpool, Manchester region.

[trevnhil]

Just about spot on for me. On the map it showed Northern Lancashire in red..

[ApusApus]

It came up with 3 places for me, one of which was pretty close but the other 2 were miles off!

[Devil]

Doesn't work for me. It split me between Home Counties, Midlands, North-East and a little bit in Scotland, where I did grow up! However, I've not lived in the UK since 1963!

[WHL]

When you sound like a cross between Bob Hoskins and Danny Dyer, its a bit ard not to give your location away..

[Jim B]

It gave Liverpool and Wolverhampton.

Jim

[trevnhil]

In my head I don't have a dialect when I speak.. But when I hear my voice recorded it is definitely a Lancashire accent..

[smudger]

Got me spot on, East Yorkshire, Hull actually. Clever stuff, and interesting. Have to say I can usually pick on a Hull accent when I hear it around, it's a pretty flat accent so not too hard to pick out. But like any other area it has its idiosyncrasies!

[josef k]

I left Devon 43 years ago, yet it identified my accent as from there.

[smudger]

Ha ha, not so much nowadays Hudswell, decline of the fishing industry and associated manufacturing has solved that probem!

[smudger]

Tut Tut Hudswell! You are right tho, it's a very distinguishable accent, I always think it's very flat, but guess it has its own connotations!

My granddaughter, who lives with me at the mo, is always asking me about accents on the tv. Don't know all the answers, but it does interest me.

Where are you from and how did you meet a Beverley lass?

[Kili01]

Does dialect really matter? Be proud of where you come from.
I put Surrey and Cheshire which really foxed it!

Dee

[Spock]

Spot on for me although I did tend to answer with the words I used as a child.
Or kid as we say on Vulcan!

[Miyagi]

Spot on.

[JimX]

I must have a slight Cypriot dialect now ;o) because it put me northeast of my home town, but close.

[zorbathejock]

Came within 12 miles. Pretty good.

[Firefly]

Leeds ! OMG wrong county even.

Jackie