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Monday, October 4, 2021

Do You Lot Verbalize The Queen's English?


The most pop interactive page on the New York Times website inward 2013 was How Y’all, Youse too You Guys Talk. This interactive characteristic asked readers to reply questions close the words they role too how they pronounce them. From the answers given to these linguistic communication questions the NYT was able to practice an interactive map showing where the reader was from inward the United States.

Now the New York Times has released a similar interactive characteristic which tin tell Irish Gaelic too British readers where they are from. If y'all reply 25 questions close the words y'all role too how y'all nation them too thence the NYT volition practice a rut map identifying where it thinks y'all were raised. The paper volition likewise present y'all a rut map afterward every unmarried enquiry y'all reply showing y'all where your reply is most too to the lowest degree common.

The British-Irish Dialect Quiz merely close managed to lay where I was raised (pictured inward the map above). I grew-up merely inside the southern tip of the NYT's rut map generated from my answers. However I bring spent most of my adult life inward London which could last why it thinks I'm from a petty farther north. than my childhood home.