British dialect placement quiz

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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby FyrsteSumarenINoreg » Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:29 pm

My results came in as somewhat Irish:

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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby DaveAgain » Sat Feb 16, 2019 3:23 pm

FyrsteSumarenINoreg wrote:My results came in as somewhat Irish:

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I think the irish have an origin legend that says they come from Troy. Is that near Croatia?
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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby Random Review » Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:55 pm

I answered how I actually speak and it couldn't narrow me down further than the entirety of Scotland. I answered how I might sometimes speak when very drunk 20 years ago and it did a bit better (but still offered the whole western lowlands of Scotland as possibilities). I guess that's what happens when you move about so much as a kid that you went to 9 different schools all over Scotland and England. :lol:

I guess I talk funny.
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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:53 pm

This is interesting. Back in the HTLAL days, there was a quiz on Canada/USA accents - I got Philadelphia (or thereabouts). A year ago, there was a global English quiz, according to which I spoke Ebonics one day, and UK English another day (I took the test twice). Now, when it's about Ireland/UK, I answer as honestly as always, and like FyrsteSumarenINoreg I'm not "from around here" (yeah, at least they got that one right), but the hottest spot on the map is... Luton. :?
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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby Random Review » Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:52 am

jeff_lindqvist wrote:This is interesting. Back in the HTLAL days, there was a quiz on Canada/USA accents - I got Philadelphia (or thereabouts). A year ago, there was global English quiz, according to which I spoke Ebonics one day, and UK English another day (I took the test twice). Now, when it's about Ireland/UK, I answer as honestly as always, and like FyrsteSumarenINoreg I'm not "from around here" (yeah, at least they got that one right), but the hottest spot on the map is... Luton. :?


I did this one just now and, as you might expect from MIT, it was pretty accurate. Not sure where Finnish came from, though. :lol:

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Scottish (UK)
2. Australian
3. English (England)
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Finnish
3. German
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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby Skynet » Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:49 am

It appears that Cambridgeshire is a county in Zimbabwe!
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Re: British dialect placement quiz

Postby Ogrim » Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:49 am

I got "way off", but with slightly hotter colours for London. As I lived there for five years, that is fair enough I guess.
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