Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 I just completed this, as accurately as I could based on how I speak now, and it pretty accurately nailed the region I grew up in, despite having not lived there for 19 years. I blame Bob Mortimer for the infringing Middlesborough, though. So, is it tig or tag, a splinter or a spelk, a bun or a barm cake? Do you give your mates a backy or a croggy, do you call tap water "council pop" (what?), and do you call a snail a shellakybooky (if so, are you mental?) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoote Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Due to Chrome fucking up, no screengrab. Mine showed mostly West Country, with some Kent coast...which fits my family history (father's side from Somerset, mother's from Surrey. Father also was ex-Navy). So despite being a born and bred Pompey boy, pretty accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 North Wales lad, now living in Preston so that's eerily specific (although it thinks i'm nearer up towards Barrow and Freebird country!!! ) Edit: Not happy about the lack of Nain and Taid for grandparents names though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 London/South East, which is where I am from so no great surprise. I do like to call people who are upset "greeting bastards" though. That's due to reading Irvine Welsh books at an impressionable age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Mine basically came up with Sheffield in massive letters which is pretty much spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Ronnie Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 That's not far off for me: Our distinctive word for a bread roll did it, assisted by the word for a pathway between two houses. If I hadn't lost the distinctive last syllable on words like 'silly' and 'happy', I think it would've nailed me. I spotted plenty of things which would've clearly identified the region if they applied to me (I have family members who say '(h)ern' instead of 'hers') but we don't all grow up using the exact same features as our relatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 Not far off considering I've been raised in Birmingham all my life. I tend to sub-consciously incorporate my friend's and families regional slang into my own dialect, so it must've been those questions about pronunciation that nailed me down to that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grecian Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 South West, which is bang on as I was raised in Devon and now live in Somerset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Mine's pretty similar to Accident Prone's, just slightly wider, and just below the word Wolverhampton. I also have a similar little bump in the northwest, where I lived for about eight years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 Ah, Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaitoRyo Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 From Newcastle, got Newcastle/Middlesbrough. Ya kna what a mean, like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 15, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 15, 2019 Mine came up on the North Wales/North Wesst border which is completely sppot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JLM Posted February 15, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 I was born in Hertfordshire, did some growing up in Lancashire, more growing up in Kent, then moved to Merseyside, then back to Hertfordshire and have now found myself in Yorkshire and settled here. My accent and regional dialects make no sense to anyone. I'm too Southern here in Leeds but too Northern when I go back to Maidstone. Regardless of my multi-regional open-mindedness when it comes to slang, I cannot accept the Yorkshire terminology for baked goods and have been persecuted for my beliefs many times since moving here. Muffins and fairy cakes are not buns and a bread cake is just the names of two baked goods thrown together. It's absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 15, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 15, 2019 Someone calling a bap a Teacake in Yorkshire pecked my head. Teacakes have currants in them. Not ham and cheese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 15, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 15, 2019 I'm from Yorkshire. They're baps. A teacake is a fruity bun. It's only if you're from West Yorkshire that you get it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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