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Post by theotherjosh on Feb 18, 2019 18:51:40 GMT
Some time ago the New York Times released the American dialect quiz, which would attempt to identify your region of America based on your particular dialect. It was discussed in this thread about American accents several years back. There is now a version of the test for British-Irish speakers. I enjoyed the American version. Give it a try if you're interested.
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 18, 2019 23:49:12 GMT
I tried it and I closely correlated with greater Belfast area and Aberdeenshire.
Strange, I would have expected Belfast to be closer to Glasgow and tbe West of Scotland, but then I did spend 4 years at St Andrews.
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Post by sherlock on Feb 19, 2019 0:02:13 GMT
Apparently I correlated with the surrounding areas of London, which is kinda accurate.
And also Bournemouth apparently. Never been there in my life, guess I should visit.
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Post by number13 on Feb 19, 2019 1:00:54 GMT
Thanks Josh, I did the full quiz and found it fascinating and uncannily accurate! My family tree comes from three distinct places in the UK within the last few generations and I was delighted to find that all of those places still show up strongly in my vocabulary, so strongly it surprised me - for example 'a bottled, carbonated drink '= 'pop' = South Wales.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 3:12:32 GMT
"Definitely not from around here are you?" No I am not.  But if it had to guess, likely from the central London or northern Cambridge. My family tend to be fairly pan-European, so we've a bit of British everything. A melting pot of verbiage, as it were. I don't use it, but I do think fab should come back as as a way of describing something rather neat; it's just fun to say. |
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Post by Hieronymus on Feb 19, 2019 5:16:54 GMT
I took the test though I'm American. My responses aligned weakly with Galway, Killarney, and Bath.
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Post by Tony Jones on Feb 19, 2019 7:38:22 GMT
Spot on. I got almost entirely the south east from East Anglia to the Isle of Wight. It highlighted Reading where I’ve lived 20 years and Cambridge where I went to university. I grew up in Brighton, which didn’t highlight
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 9:10:49 GMT
Surprisingly accurate. Highlighted the Cambridge area (where I've lived for most of my life) and London and the south east (where my mum is from and judging by my test result a bigger influence on my pronunciation of words as I grew up than my dad was).
Mind you, not quite sure where the Scottish and Irish influences on my dialect that the map displayed come into it as I don't have a family connection to or ever lived in either region.
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But if it had to guess, likely from the central London or northern Cambridge. My family tend to be fairly pan-European, so we've a bit of British everything. A melting pot of verbiage, as it were. I don't use it, but I do think fab should come back as as a way of describing something rather neat; it's just fun to say.
