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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 ..
Imnotverygood, I am north londonish and I'd have use backie for bike lifts.
"Oi, gizza backie mate"
"Yor avin a farkin larf mate"
Narrowed it down to Yorkshire, hardly a surprise since I spent most of my time pre-uni split between Harrogate and Bridlington.
If you like dialect have a list to Ian McMillan The 'arse that Jack built