Take the dialect test

RobertKK

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

I took it and it was spot on for my location.
Seems like something intelligence agencies would use too.

So how accurate has it been for you?

Trigger Happy

Not bad!

chakotha

Pure Cark biy

TheBoyConor

I'm from tipperary but it had me mostly as Cork. Pure Cork boy. But then i'm in Cork 7 years, so.

fxotoole

Fairly spot on

Some of those are very specific words that would narrow it down to a general region though

TheBoyConor

Mammy and eejit obviously places you in Ireland.

Exactly. Calling someone a gowl or a numpty definitely cornered my to cork.

fxotoole

“Gowl”

I’m not a corkonian but I fookin love that word!!

OldMrBrennan83

Mine pretty much landed spot on for where I'm from and where I lived for a good while, basically the whole eastern coasts of Ireland and NI.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Dublin will appear in all heat maps I suppose as culchies are from everywhere. For me it was Dublin, east coast and parts of Munster. There was a big hole in the midlands.

fancy pigeon

Quare close! Must have been when I'd refer to a wagon as a dose

DEFTLEFTHAND

It says Drogheda.

I'm from Tipperary. Two completely different dialects.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Also shocked to learn that hardly anybody in GB and Ireland uses the term 'gurrier'.

I'm using it on average 3-5 times per day.

D3V!L

Pure west Brit Jackeen scum right there

TheBoyConor

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Calling someone a gowl or a numpty definitely cornered my to cork.

You haven't spent much time in Limerick.

GLaDOS

I basically got the entire east coast of Ireland. I'm from Dublin so it's got the general area right.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Very accurate on mine.

marcbrophy

When I said "Tackies" for sports shoes, it should have been more certain of Limerick, but it gave me Clare, Limerick, Kerry and Cork.

Meh, it was kinda right! Gowl of a yoke :P

Wibbs

Kinda close enough. Got Dubliner which I am going back to the ark, but also Sligo and Roscommon for some reason.

Vita nova

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Dublin will appear in all heat maps I suppose as culchies are from everywhere. For me it was Dublin, east coast and parts of Munster. There was a big hole in the midlands.

There was a neutral non-pejorative way of making that point.

is_that_so

From all over including Dublin. Think it depends who you've hung out with and how much of their stuff you pick up!

marvin80

Spent a few years in different parts of Ireland and it generally picked those places up.

bennyineire

Pretty much all of Leinster, I'm from Offaly so makes sense, Offaly/Loais/Westmeath/West Kildare/Carlow and North Kilkenny accents are essentially the same IMHO

marvin80

is_that_so wrote: »

From all over including Dublin. Think it depends who you've hung out with and how much of their stuff you pick up!

My girlfriend go a bit of the county I'm from (she's from the opposite side of the country).

Be interesting to see the results of people who've been in the one county all their lives.

Alun

Interesting .. I'm English, but it shows me as coming from where both my parents were from (SW England) rather than where I was born and brought up (Midlands).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html


How odd.

Oh it didn't post properly. Well I am mostly the north west, Dublin, and south east.

theteal

fxotoole wrote: »

“Gowl”

I’m not a corkonian but I fookin love that word!!

"Mom" is a defo Cork giveaway too

riffmongous

First test gave me a weird area ranging from roscommon through meath to dublin, down the east and south east and on to cork.. so I did the full set of questions and it narrowed it down to east/south east which is quare good. It's really cool to see how localised some words I just assumed were commonplace actually are.; gurrier, mitching, lad/boy, ma, baba.. and how the hell can but and put not rhyme?

is_that_so

riffmongous wrote: »

First test gave me a weird area ranging from roscommon through meath to dublin, down the east and south east and on to cork.. so I did the full set of questions and it narrowed it down to east/south east which is quare good. It's really cool to see how localised some words I just assumed were commonplace actually are.; gurrier, mitching, lad/boy, ma, baba.. and how the hell can but and put not rhyme?

In Ireland they do, in the dictionary they don't! Put and foot are the same. But and London too.

Ficheall

"What do you call a small round piece of baked yeast dough?"
I don't know! I'm not fucking Nigella Lawson..

Paddy Cow

marvin80 wrote: »

Be interesting to see the results of people who've been in the one county all their lives.

I'm West of Ireland and it got it spot on.

binana

Mine was concentrated around Dublin with some radiance into Northern Leinster... I'm basically Ronnie Drew

Ficheall

They put me somewhere in Ireland that wasn't West Cork, Donegal, or most of Leinster. I grew up in Galway and Donegal. So meh.

riffmongous

is_that_so wrote: »

In Ireland they do, in the dictionary they don't! Put and foot are the same. But and London too.

I'd pronounce foot like fut. I had to go to google translate and use the voice function to hear the difference, puuuh-ut sounds super english.

is_that_so

riffmongous wrote: »

I'd pronounce foot like fut. I had to go to google translate and use the voice function to hear the difference, puuuh-ut sounds super english.

Yeah that's what they are using. We just say them all the same!

it gave me a very broad answer covering a very large area, however, what was interesting is that it also gave a small area of Tipperary below Kilkenny which is where my mother is from.

At times I am inclined to use phrases she uses such as ..Im bet altogether meaning very tired or ...I never put in a worst day, meaning a day when nothing went right.

facehugger99

In a swade that covers about 75% of the population.

I am shocking cosmopolitan though.

Zorya

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh it didn't post properly. Well I am mostly the north west, Dublin, and south east.

Yeah, I got whole east coast, big swathe of north west and all of cork and kerry. I was raised in the bog in the middle.

Gazzmonkey

It guessed Ulster ok but that's obvious when you answer 'Wean'

aaronjumper

I got mostly Limerick with a bit of Cork.
I loved the part where I chose tackies and Limerick went bright red. :pac:

Zorya

Zorya wrote: »

Yeah, I got whole east coast, big swathe of north west and all of cork and kerry. I was raised in the bog in the middle.

Me too!

Amazing. My result was concentrated in the exact part of the midlands where I'm from. I sent it to my Mum (who grew up in the UK) and her result was an even more specifc part of the UK she's from.

For anyone getting inaccurate results, I'm assuming you've migrated within Ireland or abroad at some point, and may have something of a hybrid accent?

Spanish Eyes

Spot on for me.

Very interesting how dialects are so different in lots of places both here and UK.

OldMrBrennan83

Gazzmonkey wrote: »

It guessed Ulster ok but that's obvious when you answer 'Wean'

I assume I got it for 'wild' and 'gutties'.

The Tetrarch

GLaDOS wrote: »

I basically got the entire east coast of Ireland. I'm from Dublin so it's got the general area right.

Same here. I was born in the midlands, moved to South Co Dublin aged 7.

Sardonicat

I didn't get a map!
I presume that's because of my English Midlands, Kerry, Limerick and Yorkshire lingo. I confused it!

I got London and the South East of England, with a side order of Dublin. Spot on, so.

GowlBagJohnson

Waterford/Killkenny with a bit of Cork, close enough

gozunda

No map for me. I reckon I confused the ****e out of it! :

OldMrBrennan83

gozunda wrote: »

No map for me. I reckon I confused the ****e out of it! :

Map wouldn't work on my phone so I had to do it on the PC.

FTA69

Cork with specks of London. I’m after picking up too many loanwords off the Cocker-Nees