Reply With QuoteYes, it accurately pinpointed my Northumberland origins.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...p_id=515120926
This is good fun and surprisingly accurate for me and Mrs. Pinged me for Merseyside (Birkenhead) and her for Leeds/Bradford (Bradford). Kids have lived in different places so they showed as coming from a region equating to Mercia.
Yes, it accurately pinpointed my Northumberland origins.
Yep spot on
Ha yes got right, “softie” for the small baked yeast dough gave it away
I am impressed because it pinpointed me in the SE (mainly) and Scotland, where I have quite a few friends and I have obviously picked up a few terms...
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Brilliant and spot on.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Picked me as West of Scotland. I'm a Weegie.
It placed me in Hull. I'm 20 miles south. Not bad at all.
Dead on for me, 6 miles outside Belfast ;-)
Spot on for me too, even though some of my colloquialisms are part of my Scottish roots, but mainly I'm South Yorkshire.
Spotted me too!Originally Posted by Incredible Sulk
Very good, and spot on, against my expectations.
As a midlander bought up outwith the main urban centres, it wasn't so hot on pinpointing my location. The most precise word was 'gambol,' which was the one that put me in the region I grew up, and only there.
Haha that is class, got my home town spot on...
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Spot on. Picked up my Hartlepool roots.
It put me in Exeter which is way out but then it being confused is mostly my fault.
Did anyone else think that question 12 was missing an Eton Wall Game option?
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Bang on, the Mersey Riviera !
Got me in NI. Spot on.
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Very precise result that somehow resolved the differences between the north Kent/estuary English I don’t have much of but kept the wealden/south coast rural bumpkin despite being born/raised in Ashford for a significant part of my early years.
But the map also included the north Norfolk coast? I did study in Norwich for 3 years but maybe it’s the soft farmyard rural parlance of the east/south east that have a lot in common.
Reasonably accurate. Gave a very large area containing places in which I have lived.
Hull, with a band stretching across to manchester.
I was born in hull, brought up from almost birth to 5 in Littleborough near Rochdale, and then back to Hull from then on. My parents and all of the generations preceding were from the Drighlington/ Pudsey/ Bramley area going back to the early 1800's and my brother still lives in Littleborough so i go there a fair bit.I have a large amount of cousins and 2nd and 3rd cousins etc in the Leeds area, most of whom i wouldn't recognise if i fell over them - that family branch was rather prolific.
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marchingontogether!
London and SE for me, spot on.
Very clever whoever compiled it.
Cheers,
Neil.
Midlands it said and Midlands I am. Very clever
OMFG Chucky Pig spot on.
It gave a broad spread across the SE centred on Oxford (where I have lived before). I'm from London so it got it right but not that pinpointed
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Very accurate - was spread across the North of England in a narrow band from Leeds to Blackpool.
As I was born in Manchester and spent most of my formative years in West Yorkshire before moving back to Manchester for a spell (now moved away) I think that nails it quite closely.
Cheers,
Mark C
Oxford, London and the South East for me. No hint of Ireland though which is where I was born and spent half my youth!
I was all over the place but deliberately answered "ginger" to the lemonade question which took me straight back to my roots on the Clyde estuary
T’north for me.
Slightly odd, first 20% of life around Manchester, then 10% south and 70% London.
I was truthful with use of current vocabulary.
Rest of family was spot on.
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It said i am bloody forriner and can’t speak english
Pretty close for me in the home counties
Very good. I lived in the very northern part of North Yorkshire, about 10 miles SE of Middlesbrough until I was 18, well within the red area.
I've spent the next 38 years in the South West, in Bristol & Bath. I'm pleased to say I don't seem to have picked up any of the West Country dialect.
Got my hometown spot-on. Great fun!
Amazing! Placed me correctly in West Yorkshire. Surprisingly accurate considering it’s only based on 25 queastions.
You can keep going & I think it was 96 questions
Given the huge difference in accents in Yorkshire alone, Doncaster is far different from Barnsley, completely different from the Dales and in turn from Hull. No similarity at all except maybe from some shared flat vowel sounds.
Spent half my life in North Wales and half in Glasgow and it dumped me in Cumbria.
Which is half way I suppose
Correct, East Anglia. Didn't even ask about the six toes and middle eye either.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Very good, bang on Nottingham. Cob gave it very precisely. Strangely also a second smaller red area in South Yorkshire which is where my mother came from. I guess one or two dialect words from her upbringing crept into mine.
Accurate as long as you were wanting to pinpoint England...other than that I could be from Cornwall/South Coast/Kent/Various places around the Midlands/Somerset/a small area of Norfolk.
Not that accurate then.
Pretty amazing for me. Bath.
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With bap, spide, and foundered, it wasn't going to be anything other than spot on for me.
I’ve done it twice and both times it put me in Cumberland / Westmorland / Lancashire when I’ve lived in the South and Midlands for most of my life.
I moved around the South and Midlands a lot though in childhood, and didn’t spend many years in any one place.
My parents and grandparents came from the North so I must have picked up enough words and phrases from them to place me in the North.
Very interesting.
I asked a Hong Kong friend to do it. Early education in late 70s in Birkenhead, university in Glasgow, just retired in Hull. He's from the north of Scotland according to the survey! His wife is from Glasgow and it was right for her. Strange one.
Bang on!! Lancashire
Very good, pinned me.
Bang on Manc .
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