[Closed] Dialect & Where you are from

Very close for me.

Not bad - generic south east mostly, but of a preference for M3 corridor, which is pretty accurate...

Mines pretty accurate, born and brought up in West Yorks, but folks are from Cheshire and Liverpool and it's picked that influence up too

Spot on, That Lahndun.

Correct to within about half a mile.

Skewered by kecks and scallies.

Came up with 3 hotspots surrounding London for me - if it had a couple of Cockney derived words in there then I reckon it'd be able to pin point it spot on (give or take the wrong side of the Thames).

That's fun. Who knew there were so many words for wood louse!?
Needs a few more answers to narrow mine down, got an area which includes about 50 miles west of where I am, where they talk quite different.

Got me as being from Scotland, but a long way from both where I grew up and where I've been the past 30 years.

Oh and as we found out in the office it asks you different questions depending on how you answered the first ones - [DataGeekTime]so it's seeking an answer more like an optimiser [/DataGeekTime]

It’s clearly broken as it’s lumped me in with the inbred Ayrshire savages.

Originally from what was Lancashire but is now part of Cumbria, i.e. Furness but it has me as being from Yorkshire - the shame😢

That was so close I think it pinpointed my street!

I must have picked up a few words from around the south east as it highlights everything from the Isle Of Wight across London and all of Norfolk and Suffolk. Actually born and bred in Northamptonshire.

Pretty good county match, mixture of East Yorks/North Lincs, or Humberside as it would have been when I was growing up.

Got me completely wrong, but possibly because I was born in Manchester, raised in West Cornwall and have lived in Bristol for nearly 20 years.

Very interesting. Took time and seemed to go all over the place, but eventually pretty much spot on. Having moved from the west country up to that London quite a while ago I had to revert to using words I did when I was younger for it to get there.

Interesting. Grew up in Sussex now living in South Warwickshire, with parents from Surrey. Hotspots in all of those and then, for some reason, Hampshire,

That was good as it really pinpointed Portsmouth pretty much for me, which is where i was born, yet having lived in London, Spain, North and West Yorkshire and now Norfolk, and being of Northern Irish and Yorkshire roots, i often use certain words or turns of phrase that you normally wouldn't hear from a South Coast dweller

Wallop - you must sound a bit like I used to. Do you say ideal for idea yet?

Map dunt wuk like, eh?

Wrong side of the Pennines.

That's freakish. I thought it would be thrown because although I grew up in east Lancashire, I wasn't born there and my parents are Londoners. Plus I've lived in Brizzle for years.

Outwith Scotland people don't think food and good rhyme? Weirdos.

Map doesn't work for me either, though a snicket and a teacake should pinpoint it pretty much exactly if previous conversations are anything to go by!

Outwith Scotland people don’t think food and good rhyme?

Food rhymes with rude, good with wood. Obvious isn't it pet.

Nailed me as the Soapdodger I am.

Pretty good. Says I matched nowhere in the UK.

Which considering I was brought up in Florida means it’s accurate. However I have lived here longer than over there and mostly worked in the South East (London) for most of my working career.

I do not have a US Drawl anymore, that got beaten out of me whilst at Uni with a bunch of Oiks from Canterbury.. then the totty I knocked about with from Old Morton Hall Girls School.

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Food rhymes with rude, good with wood. Obvious isn’t it pet.

Nope they all sound the same.

I grew up in Leiceater until 15 then moved to Halifax, so i'm a bit skewed but it was mostly right.

Pretty close that. Has me as near Leeds and I was born and raised in Mirfield, so not that far off. I’ve gone all posh now though living it up in Cheshire.

I'm clearly not enough of a cockney ****er to qualify as proper south Essex.

Spot on for town of birth for me. I knew they’d get me as soon as they asked the name of the shoes you’d wear for PE. Only in Limerick (pretty sure nowhere else in Ireland, and bizarrely also in South Africa), do we call them tackies. Had to do the quiz as if I’d just come off the boat as I use a lot of British-isms now as opposed to words I would have used growing up in Ireland.

Pretty good, narrowed down to a region of the West Country, more or less centred around Bath. Difficult to narrow down much more, there are a number of questions where I could have chosen three or four different answers, one question I could have given Jeans or Trousers, both are technically correct, but they’re different.
I guess if I’d gone on further, it could have narrowed it down even more.
Re DezB and woodlice, yeah, there’s lots of regional names, around here, Chippenham, they were called chuckypigs when I was a kid.

I've asked junior to do it as he's never lived in the UK. Have I taught him the dialect from where I was dragged up or has he become neutral due to his reading and watching films?

Do you say ideal for idea yet?

😂 God no, I don’t actually have a Bristolian accent, but now when I try and put on a Cornish one it just sounds like Brizzle instead.

Pretty accurate for me highlighting Leeds (where I grew up), Blackpool (my Mum came from Lancashire) and Lincolnshire (no idea why) and fortunately I haven't picked up any Bristolian where I have lived for 30 years.

Pretty accurate. Narrowed it down to Ayrshire and Glasgow. And I was brought up in Ayshire and now live in Glasgow

Spot cock on, our kid.

God no, I don’t actually have a Bristolian accent

You think that? 😀

It just gave me a belt from Essex to Southampton. It was difficult for me to try and remember what words I used as a child, and what I’ve picked up since. Born in Kent, and grew up in Herts (so the result wasn’t too bad), but my parents had only just arrived from Ireland (but very middle class Dublin), and I’ve since lived in London, Kendal, and the last 16 years in Perthshire. I started going through the additional questions, but got to one which didn’t have a 'none of these' option and then got distracted and the page reloaded.

Way out for me. Mostly showed places I've rarely if ever been to, never mind lived in.

Outwith Scotland

Outwith is a dead giveaway for a Scot. As a scouser turned woollyback emigrated to Glasgow, when I first read 'This bus will not uplift passengers outwith the city boundary' I had no idea it meant it wouldn't pick up passengers outside the city.

God no, I don’t actually have a Bristolian accent

You think that? 😀

Kirk waiter speak Brissle. My babbers!

Pretty accurate for me, picked up Ayrshire where I was born and brought up and Galloway where my folks are from.

Spot on, bonny lass. Wey, ye bugger a hell, howay the lads, etc...

I assume from the responses it can be fairly pinpointed?
For me it was a pretty wide spread which given my upbringing isnt surprising. Somewhat surprised it isnt more infected with Southern words. Might have been messed up slightly due to my liking for picking up random dialect words and using them to confuse the overseas people I work with.
For just the rhyming words it was a lot closer to where I was born and brought up for first ten years or so.
Although has oddities like using creek. I did use to use it how they said but from kayaking usage has changed a tad due to the US usage of creek boat.

Yeah, it will respond to both how widely you have picked up words and how strictly you answer the questions. The box to add more words etc. is it's way of learning who is who and pinpointing more, watching the map flip around was interesting as to how it's guesses were going, like a game of battleships

Born on the Rock, early teens in Hong Kong. Rest of the time a Barnsley lass. Puts me on the South Coast. Not sure ah a feel abat that.

Spot on for me, Manchester.

I think the barm cake question was a giveaway....🙂

Yep, very close. It appears that even though I was brought up to "speak nicely" and now live near Stockport, I am indeed a Yorkshireman. Grand.

Spot on for me. Mainly South Yorkshire with some West Mids.

I grew up in Barnsley until my mid teens then moved to Walsall and went to uni in Brum.

@slowoldman - I'm the opposite, grew up in Manchester and Stockport but spent most of the last 20+ yrs in South & West Yorkshire. It said I was from the NW so given my Irish heritage and proclivity for swearing it's not too bad.

Outwith is a dead giveaway for a Scot

Yeah - it was a plant by rene59 to see who would pick up on it 🙂

Mine would have been more accurate if I'd answered it 40 years ago, but was pretty close regardless (i.e. more generic than it could have been). I could guess at what answers I should have given. I also added a couple of answers when I did it earlier (e.g. gloaming).

My results suggested Lincolnshire or Leeds - brought up in South Lincs, mainly by my Leeds born mum and her Leeds born parents 🤔

Mrs Slowoldman got Stoke on Trent area, so is naturally a bit peeved.

Weirdly accurate for me. First set of questions got me bang on for the Newcastle area.
I then carried on for the extra questions and it put a massive extra hotspot over Reading, which is where my wife of near 20 years is from.
She’s clearly had an impact on me!

It was always going to struggle with someone who lived in the following places before age of 20: India, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire again, Cumbria and Liverpool.
Since then I've married a Yorkshire woman, lived in Galloway, Sheffield (where I produced three Sean Bean's) and Stirling(shire).

Mardy is my giveaway word. Sounds like some get a much smaller suggested area, mine covers most of Lincs, Notts and Yorkshire

Pretty close for me, got 3 hot spots, Cornwall which is where I grew up, Midlands which is where I have lived for the past 10yrs and then lincolnshire, not sure on the last one......

I'm from Shropshire, and it nailed that reasonably well, although there was a big stripe across the black country and into the East Mids which seems quite odd. It specifically excludes Birmingham though.

Most obvious giveaway for me was 'island' to mean 'circular traffic junction'. I didn't even know that was a regional thing until now, but it seems to be centred on an incredibly small area

Interesting too that my mum is Irish and it showed that some of the words I use are most common in Ireland, but in the final shakedown it didn't try to place me there at all.

Ah, the extended questions give a much smaller area - spoggy and croggy aren't used very widely

96 ****in questions and they only needed to ask me 1 of them to guess where I came from - the answer was barm.

Yep, clearly had me pegged as a Brummie.....

generic north east england for me - close enough but didn't narrow me down much

Scaredyfact: Chuddy means undies/knickers in some Indian language, as I found out when I offered some to a girl I worked with

Not too bad for me - grew up in N. Yorks (SW dales) and it picked up most of Airedale all the way down to Leeds (where I also lived for a while).

Anyone here from North London? I have spent too long in Scotland to call the act of giving a lift on a bike anything but a backie, but I’m sure that’s not what I called it when I was a kid.

Nailed it to within the council boundaries. Upset I never realised the slater question wasn't multiple choice. Also, nae winterdyke. #shiteyermawcomesawaywi

Perchy - you can only dream.

I'm proper local. Oswestry. Shropshire.

It sort of got me, but the area it specified is about half the population of Scotland.

You think that? 😀

😂

pretty accurate. essex boy through and through... or should that be essex boi thru n thru...?

a few questions/answers that placed me further afield, but i'm putting that down to the fact i've read books n shit. innit.

even my German GF was placed London/SE Essex. that's cos i taught her proper.

good fun.

better results if you don't give too many answers and go with what first comes to you.

Without the word grockle it would have struggled and only managed to pin me to the south. And to be fair, I only use that word in Devon, so knew the outcome when I entered it. In Windsor we have tourists. Nice piece of machine learning though.

It nailed it for me, Furness, despite not having lived there since 1998 (and a few of my answers showing as south of Ireland for some reason).

And who calls their Grandfather "dad"?
🤔

Born/bred on Tyneside then lived in Bristol, Ipswich, North Notts/Lincs.

First set of 25 Qs tagged me to tyneside/wearside/teeside/carlisle.
Qs 26 - 96 didn't refine that any further.
As several posts ^^^^ there are a few key words which are a dead give away.
Mam and spelk combined are specific.

The short 25 Q version centred me on Leeds which is where I've lived for more than 30 years but the full 96 q version pegged me in the East Midlands which is where I grew up. Cob and Nesh I reckon

Wow. Coupar Angus from 1 to 10 then Kirkcudbright from 10 to 22 and it highlighted Dundee and Ayr. Fairly close.

Spot on, had me as East Mids/South Yorks area. I'm from Mansfield.

Enjoyed that.

And who calls their Grandfather “dad”?

Children of incest?

But apart from that, in parts of Scotland it used to be common enough to call your Grandfather your Auld Da as in Old Dad. Or more accurately how your Grandfather would refer to himself when talking to you ie 'Don't talk to yer Auld Da like that or you'll get a clip round the ear.' Not heard it much in the last 30-40 years though.

Canny good like ..