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Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:21 am
by 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.
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:31 am
by PW in Polemi
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 8:43 am
by 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.
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:34 am
by trevnhil
Just about spot on for me. On the map it showed Northern Lancashire in red..
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:50 am
by ApusApus
It came up with 3 places for me, one of which was pretty close but the other 2 were miles off!
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:13 am
by 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!
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:31 am
by WHL
When you sound like a cross between Bob Hoskins and Danny Dyer, its a bit ard not to give your location away..
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:48 am
by Jim B
It gave Liverpool and Wolverhampton.
Jim
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:07 pm
by 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..
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:13 pm
by 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!
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:16 pm
by josef k
I left Devon 43 years ago, yet it identified my accent as from there.
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:41 pm
by smudger
Ha ha, not so much nowadays Hudswell, decline of the fishing industry and associated manufacturing has solved that probem!
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:44 pm
by 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?
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:03 pm
by Kili01
Does dialect really matter? Be proud of where you come from.
I put Surrey and Cheshire which really foxed it!
Dee
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:17 pm
by 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!
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 11:31 pm
by Miyagi
Spot on.
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:32 am
by JimX
I must have a slight Cypriot dialect now ;o) because it put me northeast of my home town, but close.
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:34 am
by zorbathejock
Came within 12 miles. Pretty good.
Re: Does your dialect give your location away
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:04 pm
by Firefly
Leeds ! OMG wrong county even.
Jackie
