The British-Irish Dialect Quiz (1 Viewer)

[lolly]

The British-Irish Dialect Quiz (Published 2019)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer 25 questions to see your own custom dialect map.

www.nytimes.com

Frighteningly accurate for me.

 

[GNL]

Quite VAGUE for me.

 

[GNL]

Side note: why do we have so many words for WOODLOUSE of all things.

 

[Soldi]

 

[Ellie]

Why is this behind a paywall for me?

 

[lolly]

Why is this behind a paywall for me?

Does it work if you just delete the word 'paywall' from the end of the URL?

 

[Ellie]

Does it work if you just delete the word 'paywall' from the end of the URL?

So it does

Anyway, quite accurate!

 

[GNL]

Does it work if you just delete the word 'paywall' from the end of the URL?

Amazing work, New York Times digital team

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Very accurate

 

[win_the_game]

"Scottish" for me. Not particularly accurate given the variance between the West, East/South-East of the country.

 

[COB]

 

[win_the_game]

@COB the fact we both had Inverness highlighted, I wonder if that extends to our pronunciation and we both have that Invernesian twang (also known as the dreadful Glasgow Uni accent)

 

[RJN]

 

[Tetris-Rock]

"Scottish" for me. Not particularly accurate given the variance between the West, East/South-East of the country.

Same for me. I don’t think the quiz is perhaps as good at identifying the differences within Scotland itself. There were options in the quiz that I could identify as the “Scottish option” so to speak but in my eyes they seemed really Glasgow and not what I would say as someone who grew up in the south east of Scotland.

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Bang on for me

 

[AGinAg (37)]

That's me. Although I have a northern mother and spent the first five years of my life in Yorkshire, I generally see myself as from THOSE PARTS.

 

[RS]

Hello Peterborough whoever you are!

 

[octophone]

Almost spooky although a bit odd that it veers towards the east coast. We must have been posh for Glasgow.

 

[Tisch]

I fort I'd come out a bit more obviously Essex than that

 

[Dark Carnival]

 

[jivafox]

Exposed!

 

[AlgoAlex]

You can take the boy out of Gloucester...

 

[BoysForSeles]

Correct

 

[jyxz]

 

[ButterTart]

Side note: why do we have so many words for WOODLOUSE of all things.

And my answer (woodpig) wasn't even on there

 

[ButterTart]

Spot on, to be fair.

 

[jyxz]

And my answer (woodpig) wasn't even on there

Woooooodpiiiiig dot com

 

[BoysForSeles]

I would say chiggy pig but chicky pig was on there so went for that, I believe @Rowan Tree 🌳 once had a topic on this very matter.

 

[Music]

Accurate!

 

[ButterTart]

I would say chiggy pig but chicky pig was on there so went for that, I believe @Rowan Tree 🌳 once had a topic on this very matter.

It’s a weird one, that, because ‘checkie pig’ is what little kids would call an actual pig around here. I’d never heard it used for woodpigs before.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

MADNESS

It's a WOODLOUSE

 

[jivafox]

 

[Generic Account]

 

[AGinAg (37)]

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15% and you need to do an update. Scary.

 

[Marina Salty]

I guess centipede was the wrong answer

 

[win_the_game]

They’re called SLATERS where I’m from.

 

[Kate]

"Council juice" (for tap water) has tickled me immensely. Where is it called that?

 

[win_the_game]

I’m pretty sure it’s a Glaswegian term.

 

[floppet]

"Council juice" (for tap water) has tickled me immensely. Where is it called that?

We used to call it corporation pop which is basically the same thing.