ray winstone 10:42 Fri Feb 15
The British-Irish Dialect Quiz
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
Pretty accurate I’d say.....
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1:29 Sun Feb 17
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Mine is overwhelmingly London and east and thus accurately pins me down.
Though on my family trousers have always been called Callards.
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the exile
12:56 Sun Feb 17
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If this had been done 50 years ago it would have been much more accurate. It's a much smaller world now and we all rub off on each other. Having said that, mine was reasonably accurate - showed up a couple of very specific areas I lived in as a kid, but added a couple of others that were way off.
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geoffpikey
12:47 Sun Feb 17
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Cheers!
It is just nonsense.
Next week in the FT: how Ohio are you.?
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gph
12:42 Sun Feb 17
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geoffhatred
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geoffpikey
3:11 Sat Feb 16
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Fucking nonsense.
From that "heat map" at the end I could be Welsh?
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Trevs Header
12:41 Sat Feb 16
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prtetty good it even gave my street name
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jfk
2:51 Sat Feb 16
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I'm too thick to answer the questions.My missus is a Mick she must be rubbing off on me alright so.
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Alfie
2:36 Sat Feb 16
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In my youth, truant was 'bunking off'.
The most cockney / proper london thing ive ever heard said was before an unremembered night game, in the central , before the game wherein the speaker told a rapt audience of drinkers just in my earshot
' so we was in this boozer right. An the fakkin gavvers have turnt up. And on me - weve all done a legger, an this cunt has just stronged it, an stood there drinkin. Cunt'
Actual words i heard. Such beautiful spiel - the proper london lilt is without equal, and long may it live on. Not many left now.
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Westham67
2:34 Sat Feb 16
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My Dad Canning town used to say breed and butta My Mum is from Hackney as is my eldest sister and brother
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Alfs
2:28 Sat Feb 16
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The for example, in Wales, playing truant was going on the 'mitch', which will straight away identify you as someone with a Welsh background. 'Strides' indicates a SE background.
I'm surprised that they hadn't used the term 'cor blimey' or 'apples and pears' to identify true cockneys.
Or possibly 'you fuuuuckin' cuunt'.
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lincslink
12:52 Sat Feb 16
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Mine was also London and South East
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Mike Oxsaw
12:36 Sat Feb 16
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Hah!
Born in Harold Hill, raised in Chadwell Heath before 15 years in Radlett.
This test puts me closer to fucking Brighton, which must give a few bullets to someone.
I even did the 12-inch extended disco-mix version, too.
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gph
12:32 Sat Feb 16
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My Grandparents came from North London, but moved to East London, the other lot came from West Essex, so I kind of get the North and East London influence on my accent, but why West London, and not South London?
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Gavros
12:26 Sat Feb 16
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I personally think theres a bit of laziness applied to the south east. If you look at the options, there's a massive bias toward the north and Ireland. There isnt the nuance for the south east that you see elsewhere.
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gph
12:24 Sat Feb 16
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London and South-East, but with hole where South London is.
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Takashi Miike
11:37 Fri Feb 15
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London & South East, innit
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Alfs
11:29 Fri Feb 15
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Mine is Wales and the south-west, which is pretty accurate. It didn't detect 15 years of living in London though.
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Westham67
11:06 Fri Feb 15
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Mine is London and South East
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Gavros
10:44 Fri Feb 15
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mine come back south east-ish, which is sort of understandable given the diaspora of London.
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