Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
Feb 23rd 2019, 5:19 am
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Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...p_id=515120926
This is good fun. It was very accurate for wife and me. Also for the kids in a way - we lived in the south, north and midlands with them - and this was picked up by the quiz. At the end it shows a map of where your accent applies. Kids are from kingdom of Mercia.
This is good fun. It was very accurate for wife and me. Also for the kids in a way - we lived in the south, north and midlands with them - and this was picked up by the quiz. At the end it shows a map of where your accent applies. Kids are from kingdom of Mercia.
Feb 23rd 2019, 10:13 pm
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...p_id=515120926
This is good fun. It was very accurate for wife and me. Also for the kids in a way - we lived in the south, north and midlands with them - and this was picked up by the quiz. At the end it shows a map of where your accent applies. Kids are from kingdom of Mercia.
This is good fun. It was very accurate for wife and me. Also for the kids in a way - we lived in the south, north and midlands with them - and this was picked up by the quiz. At the end it shows a map of where your accent applies. Kids are from kingdom of Mercia.
Feb 23rd 2019, 10:28 pm
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
I was sceptical, but it put me within 15 miles of where I grew up.
Feb 24th 2019, 12:37 am
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
Yes great fun and different questions for me and hubby. The results put us firmly in the areas we grew up. Him Sheffield and me in Burnley, Lancs.
We still argue about how to say scone!
We still argue about how to say scone!
Feb 24th 2019, 12:58 am
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
Yep, scouse's scouseness confirmed 
Feb 24th 2019, 7:08 am
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
Good for me too - big red splodge around Cambridge.
Feb 24th 2019, 10:53 am
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
Put me in a few different small areas of the South East, mainly on the south coast around Dover. Hmmm maybe not!
Feb 24th 2019, 10:35 pm
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Feb 25th 2019, 4:48 am
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Re: Quiz on NY Times to analyse UK/Irish accents
This put me slap bang in the middle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with some NW England and North Wales bits (the original in-laws influence is strong, padwan)
I would like to make it clear that I'm not a flipping Geordie, I'm from co. Durham. So there.
I would like to make it clear that I'm not a flipping Geordie, I'm from co. Durham. So there.
