English Dialects

I found it a fun quiz to do. It caused me to think about how I say things and how others do. The app did not place my dialect because I am from Southern England but lived in Glasgow, and moving has modified my accent - this app showed me how! I recommend reading press articles about the research to find how this app developed and continues to develop. Great that the app now includes Scottish, Welsh and Irish accents.

Although disappointed with my result (given outskirts of London when I live near Cambridge) I had fun. Maybe nuanced terms for speaking to friendly strangers could be used to pinpoint locations e.g. 'duck' - Stoke, 'Mate' - London/south east, 'chuck' - Leicester(?) as a few examples. However, the heat map seems pretty useless if the whole country is red

It didn't manage to even get close with the region I'm from . Saying that however my dad is from north Wales and my mother is from Essex so I do speak a bit different from people in my area

Hmm entertaining but didn't really get mine or my husband's. I'm from Sheffield living in Guildford, it put me in Stockport. He's mostly from Aylesbury living in Guildford and it said he was from Dorset. Were confused on the pronunciation choices for butter and house tho didn't really have the right one.

It wasn't very accurate for me but then I've lived all over the UK. Moving from the shires to the West Country while still youngish probably hasn't made it very easy to guess. Couldn't reflect that in the post quiz survey.

As a "Coventry kid", I was surprised to be placed west of Cardiff. I checked the sample data for Meriden and Nuneaton, and the vocabulary choices and pronunciation examples were very similar to mine. Is South Wales really so very similar to the Midlands?

Great research tool into dialects of English in UK. Not the most accurate atm (placed me in Llangollen, I'm from Abergavenny; it got that I'm from Welsh borders though), but the more data it collects, the more accurate it will become!

Fun quiz to see how your dialect compares to others. As an England-residing American I can't comment on the accuracy but it was fun to explore the map and see what results people near where I live returned.

Miles out in guessing my dialect's origins. When I stated where my dialect came from the app still placed me on the map in my present geographic location. Fun to do but too limited to be taken seriously.

The app itself is fine. It can't be expected to know that Indians might use it and be placed in Wales, of all places. :)

People complaining that it's not accurate, that just means that a) you speak differently to those around where you come from, b) not many people from near you have done this and submitted their results once they have finished, as this is also researching, not only trying to guess where you have come from, so the more people that do this, so long as you speak similarly, the more accurate it will be.

I've not lived there for 30 years but the 3 options circled my home town. Bullseye

It was 50 miles out, which isn't too bad but the app definitely needs a social media sharing function. You will definitely get more uptake and downloads if people can then dhare on social media the results.

All this analysis is based on how people think they sound words which in reality might not be the case. I have been surprised in the past hearing my recorded voice sounding quite different to how I imagined.

And there was I thinking I'd lost all traces of my local accent...

I would have liked to supply more specific information in the research section as being forced to choose specific answers probably makes my answers misleading.

As a lover of accents and dialects, I found this really interesting and it placed me 15 minutes down the motorway from where I grew up!

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It was a fun quiz, but it thought I came from Bridport. Very similar accent to the West Midlands.

Interesting app - result was as accurate as it could be since my accent is pretty generic.

No Australian accents on this one! Its like, only the U.K speaks English mate!

Very interesting, and one of the suggested places of origin was within 3 miles of where I came from!

This app is fun and interesting. Not sure why it didn't offer skelf as a variant of splinter

Fascinating. Especially fun for a Canadian girlfriend to finally understand why I sound like I do.

Pinned my location down to within 10 miles. Pretty impressed.

Very interesting.

Nailed it

Brilliant

Nice

I liked the app but i got completely the wrong result saying my accent is from Henham but im from London. Weird.

I'm from all over so it's no surprise it wasn't hugely accurate for me. What annoyed me was it doesn't have options to share, and doesn't save results. I was going to take a screen grab, but the was this accurate question was in the way. Said no and it closed my results. Lost for ever. Poor app design.

Decided I was from the Lake District. Nope, not even close. Fun app though

fascinating! based on my answers today, it correctly chose the areas my families lived, before emigrating to the US all those years ago.

App which tries to guess where your dialect is from by giving you words to select from, and choosing those which are closest to yours.

Pretty good

The quiz gave 3 places of accent origin. I had never heard of any of them. If yhis is what the University of Cambridge is doing now then that venerable institution is going downhill faster than could posibly be imagined!

But, not correct for me. Just a little more research and it will be perfect. App released to soon. Maybe the next update. Well done tho.

As the app clearly states, it is not always correct in determining your accent and that is because it compares it with data from the Survey of English Dialects from the 1950s. So if they guess it right, the dialect in your area hasn't changed much since then. If they guess it wrong the dialect must have changed (considerably) since that time. Play with it, take the quiz and submit your info to the survey. Help some linguists!

Didn't get my accent right at all. It would be better if the user could talk into it, rather than have to select predetermined options.

I'm using a hudl, maybe that makes a difference, but there seems to be no way to record an answer and move on to the next. I can go back to the start and get a new word, but it still calls itself question 1 of 26. Seems a massive waste of time if it isn't coherently constructed