I grew up and have spent my entire life in the Eastern U.S. but my Mother was English (from Birmingham). When you said "mardy" it brought a tear or two to my eyes. She used to call me that, and that's the only use of the word I remember. She died in 2011, and I'd give anything to be called that again.
My family uses davenport as well. Thought it was funny since the city of Davenport, IA is a hour away from me. As a kid I thought that all davenports got their name from Davenport.
As an American I go back and forth between dinner and supper. Occasionally it depends on how late in the day it is. As for the lower body garment it can vary depending on the terminology or material. Pants or britches are more generic. Jeans usually refer to something made from denim. Slacks is typically used for something made from a dressier material (sometimes referred to as dress slacks).
We always referred to a Sunday earlier meal and Holiday meals as dinner as well as it applying to the average day late meal . But supper only applied to the average day later meal... If I am not mistaken... in UK it is Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Tea, Dinner and "Late" Supper that is served at like 9-10pm?? (According to Downton Abbey..🤗.)
In the Midwest (Iowa/Wisconsin) growing up, dinner was whichever meal was biggest and supper was the evening meal. For holiday meals where family visits, lunch could be dinner.
I too go back and forth between dinner and supper. Rarely, do I say jeans I usually say Levi's no matter what the brand is. Trousers/pants are for men and slacks are for women. Although, sometimes I do say britches.
For what it's worth I'm a Midwestern American boomer whose British ancestors started crossing the pond in the 1630's. I have, obviously, lost any vestiges of my ancestor's dialects many generations ago.
one thing i noticed, was while reading the choices, you read from left to right as if in a sentence, and if its a list im reading, i read top to bottom starting from the left, then go to the right and top down. Im wondering if thats common anywhere or just me...lol
Lol i was lost.. up & down then over next list! Plus drove me crazy that it said click all that apply.. but he only picked one even though said multiple on the list. I guess my ocd kicked in a bit lol
It's nesh in Sheffield. You see someone shivering or bundled up in late spring or early autumn you ask them ''what's up with you? Are you Nesh?'' (I've taken to colloquial accents to make it easier to read)
Galway and Killarney in Ireland. Canterbury, Cambridge, Southampton, Birmingham, and Cornwall in England were all the same shade for me. Third most similar shade. (I grew up in West Virginia and Georgia.)
In 2016 the polling company YouGov performed a UK-wide national survey specifically on the pronunciation of the word 'Scone'. The results were that the majority of the UK pronounces it as rhyming with the word "gone" (this included middle and upper class Southerners). Significantly fewer people pronounce it as rhyming with the word "bone".
I'm from Doncaster, Yorkshire and this put me in Sheffield 😏 I spent 10yrs in mablethorpe , Lincolnshire , my dialect was constantly being picked out 😅
When I hear "divan" I think of movie stars lounging and being fed grapes. Basically you are expected to lay one person along the length of a divan instead of several people side by side on a couch or sofa. And isn't a "settee" where you have multiple pieces (i.e. a set), including a corner, that can be arranged in different configurations?
My mother used to call the couch a divan. She is the only one that used that term. I traced her ancestry back and she had Irish and English but mostly English.
I grew up in the East Midlands and my answers were almost identical, the only differences for me would be: 'Backie' for the ride on the back of the bike 'Nan' for grandmother
My mother’s mother is my Nan and my father’s mother was my Gran (I’m from the West Midlands, though I’m not sure how typical of the area such a distinction is)
Like most of the Americans who have taken this quiz, I was correctly identified as not having grown up in the British Isles but being linguistically closest to Galway or Cork in Ireland. Although most of my ancestors came from the Lake District of England and from Scotland, the closest UK cognates appear to cluster around the Herefordshire and Worcestershire areas. I grew up mostly in Ohio but did spend 6 years of my childhood in California. This was fascinating! I've been a long time lurker on your channel -- this is my first time commenting!
While solidly in the "You're not from around here, are you?" category, the quiz plotted me firmly in Galway, Tipperary, Kerry and Cork - both times I took it. Not a complete shock because Chicago is far more Irish than English from a linguistic perspective. But where I landed both times is fascinating because those are familial regions - albeit four to six generations ago.
American here, born and raised between northern and central NJ and went to college in southeastern NC. Apparently my dialect places me in Ireland, specifically in the region around Galway & Killarney. Interesting
Same as German, who was thought "RP British English" and consumed much American media before spending 6 months each in Canada and Ireland... that however would justify it separately.
Jeff. Second-language speaker here, living in NJ, and it places me in southwestern Ireland as well. I think that's true of American accents in general, judging by some of the other responses here.
Thomas Okken Not necessarily.... :-) I think it has more to do with whether a person has remained in a small number of U.S. regions. I’ve lived all over the U.S., and the results of my UK dialect quiz returned no particular region. There were many Irish immigrants to NY/northern NJ, I believe....
You'd have to look into the major migrations of Irishmen and Scotsmen into America. They had a tremendous influence in the South and into the South Central Midwest, almost as a far as the Mississippi. e.g. Bluegrass music, and influenced country-western music.
Laurence I'm so confused--I grew up in Chicago but lived north of London for quite awhile so I am all over the place! No wonder no one knows what I'm talking about!
Unsurprisingly I got the "not from around here are you" category, since I'm American. However, most of my answers corresponded the most with the area of England around London
I grew up in Michigan and have been here most of my life (2 years in Minnesota, 1 1/2 years in Chicago). According to the quiz my dialect is primarily from The Cotswolds and Bath. My kids went to Bath High School in Bath, MI so that must be it. 😉🤫🤭
Yeah, they're pretty interchangeable, at least in my area of the northeastern US. My childhood household usually used couch, but as soon as I was out in public, sofa seemed to be the dominant word. Maybe it's because furniture stores tend call it a sofa. If anything, I guess I assumed sofa to be a slightly more "classy" or neutral way of referring to the furniture, with couch being more comfortable and informal, if that makes any sense.
I know in the midwest they tend to say sofa which is probably why that's the term he uses now. But when I was growing up in California sofa had a very specific usage, it was a couch that turned into a bed. It wasn't until high school that I realized that usage was not universal or even particularly common in much of the country.
@@costakeith9048 thats interesting, in my area of the midwest we call anything a couch and what you call a “sofa” is a “sofa bed”, “pull out couch” or “pull out sofa”
I did this a while ago and I did the extended version. It was impressive how accurate it was. The only red area was a ~15-mile radius of where I grew up (and I've lived abroad for nearly 10 years)
I'm an Australian, born to parents from Bristol & Birmingham, and have lived in the US since 2001. British-Irish Dialect quiz pinpointed my dialect as London/Cambridge.
Thanks Sooooo much for posting the quiz for ourselves. Brought back many childhood memories. My family was originally from Waterford Ire. Now circa Nyc........ Happy Christmas to you and Tara Cheers.........
The test knew I was not from that area, however, if I was I would be closest to the southwestern portion of Ireland. Coincidently I am from the southwestern portion of the US.
I'm an American Southerner. When I took the quiz, it put me in a sort of triangle between Coventry, Bristol & Hereford. Plus Cornwall, for some reason. :)
"You're not from around these parts, are you?" This was based mostly on what I use day-to-day here in the US vs what I picked up from my Canadian (step)mother and (step)sister. Though some of my answers did show usage inside mostly Ireland, occasionally England or Scotland.
- Wagging school. Bunking off school. - Chase-ies or tip (or tag) - Lounge or sofa - I never know what the “proper” name is for this furniture item. My mother always wanted to sound posh, so I’m sure that she would know. I’m going to take a guess and say that “lounge” is what she would have called it. We even had a fancy lounge room in our house. Only used on special occasions and/or when visitors came over. 🤣🤣 I now have the two “fancy” lounge room ...lounges in my apartment. I know that my mother would absolutely freak out if she could see what my cat has done to her once very fancy lounges.
@@Thelaretus You are correct, sir .... but I do not, nor have I ever .... played the game, read about it, or watched it on TV or live. However, I did sit next to a Mr. Tiger Woods at an American football game once.
I took it. Most similar to the areas around Birmingham and Lincoln in England. Born in North Carolina and raised in Western Massachusetts. I now live in Nebraska. It did say, "You're not from around here, are you?"
Have you ever heard the American word 'idjit'? Because it originates from the word 'eejit'; I know this because I looked up the etymology of the word 'idjit'. As an American, I routinely use the word 'idjit' it refer to a 'stupid person' or 'idiot'. Why is it when I hear the term 'woodlouse' or 'woodlice', I think of termites? Pill bugs or roly-poly bugs are not termites. They aren't even related in biology. So that shows how unfamiliar I am with how Brits talk. Merry Xmas.
I'm an American from California. The quiz accurately could tell that I wasn't from Ireland/Britain, and the only regions that were colored in at all were Limerick and Killarney.
I took the quiz. I'm American (raised in the East; moved to the West as an adult). The quiz didn't have a deep, red commitment but the nearest match was the West Midlands. It looks like Birmingham down to Bristol but starts to fade around Stratford-upon-Avon. And London-ish. Don't know how that works.
I grew up in Southeast Missouri and am of good German American stock. The grandparents, and the larger community of that area, didn’t start speaking English on the regular until after WW1. When I took the quiz it was pretty sure I wasn’t from there but put me closest to Birmingham, Cambridge, and Killarney. I also took the US quiz and it nailed me for the area just south of St. Louis, MO. Cheers
The test knew I did not hail from Ireland or the UK, but I matched closest to the Cornwall and Kent counties. Would like to learn more about these regions now!
I grew up in Michigan and it shows, but i do have some solid results from the Birmingham to Gloucester area. I know part of my family immigrated here from the UK so maybe that's where it originated.
Re: Dinner/Supper. In rural parts of the US (and maybe the UK as well), the farmer would, after a hearty breakfast go work hard in the fields til mid-day, then go to the house for a heavy meal, then more work then home for a lighter meal, often leftovers from mid-day. They called the heavy meal Dinner and the leftovers Supper . Those who lived and worked in cities, ate a smaller and lighter meal at mid-day and called it Lunch (Don't know where that came from), and a heavier meal after work which most call Dinner. What you call it depends on where you grew up and/or what your family did for a living.
After 28 years …. I finally understand “it’s tea time somewhere” 😂😂!! Any time I’m drinking before 5pm…I say well “it’s tea time somewhere”. Tea time = dinner time 🤯🤯🤯. We learn something new everyday!
Riding on the back of a bicycle is to "double-up". In NW Pa where I grew up, they say "crick" for Creek. And one "reds (rids) the table" for removing the dishes and such. Also, smogasbord for buffet.
The quizzed mapped me almost exclusively to Ireland. Not surprising since my family has always lived in lower Appalachia since coming to this country. A lot of Irish settled in this area. Also, my Ancestry DNA test showed I'm 100% Irish and Scottish. It all adds up.
Rhotacisim - Rhotacism or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment. The most common may be of to. When a dialect or member of a language family resists the change and keeps a sound, this is sometimes known as zetacism
Yeah, I'm kind of all over the place. But my father used to call that long piece of furniture with cushions a "davenport". Most everyone else I knew called it a couch or sofa. Fancy people (or those putting on airs) called it a divan or davino.
I grew up in NJ, near NY. I got "Definitely not from around here are you? Your answers were closer to the average person outside of Ireland and Britain than anywhere inside it." But my top 3 places were all Western Ireland- Galway, Limerick, and Killarney.
Ha ha! The quiz found me out... That I was not raised in the UK! But the most similar places to my dialect in the UK were in northwest of Ireland and in Cornwall. I'm in southern US. Ancestors were from northern Ireland on one side and border area of England and Scotland on the other side. That would have been in 16-1700's. Grew up saying over yonder and fixing to!
I live in Missouri... and not me, but... I had friends that called their snack before after school but before doing farm work as "dinner" and the main evening meal as supper.
I spent my childhood in Gloucestershire, moved to the Bahamas for my teens, and went off to Oklahoma for college, so it's a miracle this thing could make heads or tails of my accent. I did the extra questions and it plonked me in this crescent reaching from Oxford to Bath. (The US version decided I was most likely from the Northeast - another crescent, this time from Boston to NYC). (Childhood PE shoes were daps in Glos, with Plimsolls a close second).
I did this quiz and I showed up more in Western Ireland. Interestingly, I picked up a number of British terms from watching British telly and from a dear friend who has lived in Britain and the states. A few of the words I have heard in the area where I live in North Dakota. EAstern North Dakota was British territory before it was given to the US in 1818.
Being an American who lived in Australia for a few years and has an Irsh grandmother from Maghera, Londonderry, here's my take on generic meal names: Breakfast: First meal of the day. Must occur before noon. Lunch(eon): A midday meal, occuring between 11 and 2 or 3 Dinner: The largest meal of the day, occurring at lunch or supper time. Supper: An evening meal. May be early evening , in the place of dinner, or late evening, esp. after movies, the theatre, etc. Lighter than dinner. Tea: a meal which occurs only in certain countries, and may occur at any time of the day. While in the hospital in Australia in the early 70's, my father was served tea four times a day. Elevensies: tea served about 11 am. Occurs in Australian hospitals and JRR Tolkiens fantasy world. Maybe also in other places.
From the confluence of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia and I was stuck in and around Cornwall/Dorset. Which when comparing the two, at least to me, there huge similarities
My daughter's fiance is from Newbury, Berkshire. She has lived in various parts of the US and in Japan, and currently lives in Alabama. She has been picking up a lot of his dialect and slang which I notice whenever we talk on the phone.
So funny - scone, bone and gone are all pronounced the same for me. *Eejit* - OMG - I cannot believe that is on one of the lists. I always thought that was just an American southern word. I find that just amazing. I cannot wait to tell my family that we are not eejits for using the word eejit! So excited.
I took this, grew up in England moved to US when I was in primary school, haven’t lived in the England for almost 20 years and it was pretty accurate, three blobs over Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Essex
I am from southern Alabama, about as southern American as it gets, but much of my dialect was influenced by TB. The British quiz puts me in the south of England near London.
I'm descended from Welsh and Irish Ancestors, with a couple Germans and Swiss farther back, via marriage. I was born and raised in Alabama. The Test put me in Galway, Limerick, and Killarney. Of my four different Irish ancestors, they were all, interestingly, from County Tyrone, in Antrim, not the Republic. My Welsh ancestors apparently bequeathed naught linguistically.
Coming to America made you adopt the word sofa? That's interesting, I didn't know there were regional variations in the U.S. when it comes to naming that piece of furniture. Here in NJ and on TV, I don't think I've heard it referred to as anything other than a couch.
I know this is a year old but this was so much fun. Growing up in New Mexico my results were "You aren't from around here, are you?" I got strongest placements in Ireland with a weird bouncing between central and southern England.
I grew up and still live in the north east of england and it pinpointed me to the exact town. The giveaway questions for me seemed to be: babby, baba mam, and nanna beck (which apparently originates from the viking times) yobs and chavs.
I took the quiz myself, as a North-easterner of America, and it ended up saying I didn't have anything in common with anything except south-western Ireland, specifically around Galway. It makes a certain amount of sense too since I do have some family that came from around that region of Ireland. So perhaps, there's something to be said about American dialogue and where the majority of people's ancestry came from.
I find that fascinating. Especially the pronunciation of the word "put". It really depends on the use. If you are playing golf, we pronounce it to rhyme with but, however if you are using it as to place something, then we pronounce it to rhyme with shook.
J. N. Sloane - The golf term is not only pronounced differently, it is spelled differently too: "putt", not "put". It seems likely to me that the pronunciation is different because the spelling is different. Or not, given that I pronounce "but" and "butt" the same way.
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Lost in the Pond Galway/Killarney were my answers, but I’m from New Jersey, so that’s very interesting to me!
Now I need to find a South African dialect quiz. I strongly suspect I'd be placed as a Southerner. (I speak a variant of RP)
It is behind a pay wall.
Well, I am American so I used my Americanisms, and got that I am from the Limerick or Killarney region of Ireland. I can deal with that. :)
I grew up in Kansas City Missouri and my test put me in the Aberdeen region in Scotland. Who knew? That's where my ancestors lived.
I took the quiz.. when I had finished it said simply" "you're not from around here, are you?" 😂
Me too. Although I followed the instructions and chose all that apply and not just one.
Same here. Not that it's surprising.
Same here but I've got a strong language connection to Birmingham. (That makes sense as I'm Southern and we still use a lot of British words.)
Same
Same for me lol
I grew up and have spent my entire life in the Eastern U.S. but my Mother was English (from Birmingham). When you said "mardy" it brought a tear or two to my eyes. She used to call me that, and that's the only use of the word I remember. She died in 2011, and I'd give anything to be called that again.
"choose all that apply"
"I use half of these regularly, but I'll pick this single one"
;)
@D M Yes. Some of them asked for one choice. Others say choose all that apply
@D M I was being facetious, anyway.
He was one of those kids who got the “does not follow instructions” comment on his report cards. 😆
My grandmother used to call the sofa a Davenport. I read it was a popular manufacturer back in the day.
My grandparents did the same.
My family uses davenport as well. Thought it was funny since the city of Davenport, IA is a hour away from me. As a kid I thought that all davenports got their name from Davenport.
Me, too.
Mine too!
My mother called all sofas davenport, but her mother only used davenport for sofas that converted to a bed by flipping the back down.
As an American I go back and forth between dinner and supper. Occasionally it depends on how late in the day it is.
As for the lower body garment it can vary depending on the terminology or material. Pants or britches are more generic. Jeans usually refer to something made from denim. Slacks is typically used for something made from a dressier material (sometimes referred to as dress slacks).
This exactly. Dress pants are slacks, jeans are of usually denim (or at least 80% cotton, and are work pants, trousers or pants are the generic.
We always referred to a Sunday earlier meal and Holiday meals as dinner as well as it applying to the average day late meal . But supper only applied to the average day later meal... If I am not mistaken... in UK it is Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Tea, Dinner and "Late" Supper that is served at like 9-10pm?? (According to Downton Abbey..🤗.)
In the Midwest (Iowa/Wisconsin) growing up, dinner was whichever meal was biggest and supper was the evening meal. For holiday meals where family visits, lunch could be dinner.
In my head I'm hearing Olivia Walton "Don't be late for suppa !" 😁
I too go back and forth between dinner and supper.
Rarely, do I say jeans I usually say Levi's no matter what the brand is.
Trousers/pants are for men and slacks are for women. Although, sometimes I do say britches.
I don't think that you've lost your British dialect. I think that you've just picked up some americanisms.
His accent is still English , but I doubt if he ever spoke with the regional dialect of the area he grew up. He's like SO posh !
@Hammer 001 Are you British ? I am . He's a right toff by the sound of him 😁
For what it's worth I'm a Midwestern American boomer whose British ancestors started crossing the pond in the 1630's. I have, obviously, lost any vestiges of my ancestor's dialects many generations ago.
Hammer 001 Pfft. There’s even more than one accent in NYC alone. Woody Allen doesn’t sound like Robert De Niro, for example.
@Hammer 001 Dialects and accents are not the same thing.
one thing i noticed, was while reading the choices, you read from left to right as if in a sentence, and if its a list im reading, i read top to bottom starting from the left, then go to the right and top down. Im wondering if thats common anywhere or just me...lol
kevin wallis No, I do that too. It took me a second or two to realise what Laurence was doing! I’d never do it that way.
Lol i was lost.. up & down then over next list! Plus drove me crazy that it said click all that apply.. but he only picked one even though said multiple on the list. I guess my ocd kicked in a bit lol
Townie in my college days referred to college student who did not live on campus. This was in 1970s and in the South. I am American.
They need to have an American quiz for how much British dialect you've adopted from the Harry Potter books. Brilliant!
... did you not see the times it said "select all that apply"?
Yes. That was useful, because I use some words interchangeably.
I know. It annoyed me so much 😂😂
It's nesh in Sheffield.
You see someone shivering or bundled up in late spring or early autumn you ask them ''what's up with you? Are you Nesh?'' (I've taken to colloquial accents to make it easier to read)
‘Nesh’ is a good Staffordshire word too, I must be the only person in Warwickshire who says it due to my dad’s influence! 😂
I’m American but apparently we most closely match Ireland, Galloway area.
Same
Galway and Killarney in Ireland. Canterbury, Cambridge, Southampton, Birmingham, and Cornwall in England were all the same shade for me. Third most similar shade. (I grew up in West Virginia and Georgia.)
In 2016 the polling company YouGov performed a UK-wide national survey specifically on the pronunciation of the word 'Scone'. The results were that the majority of the UK pronounces it as rhyming with the word "gone" (this included middle and upper class Southerners). Significantly fewer people pronounce it as rhyming with the word "bone".
In the Monty Python Lumberjack song, Michael Palin pronounced it like the word “gone” and that was the first time I heard that pronunciation.
Only the uneducated pronounce it to rhyme with 'gone' 😂😂 and I am a Southerner
Their answer is: "Definitely not from around here are you?" And they're right! Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Melody Kubiak Same! Down to the western Twin Cities! 😂 Though I have moved around a lot....
I'm from Doncaster, Yorkshire and this put me in Sheffield 😏 I spent 10yrs in mablethorpe , Lincolnshire , my dialect was constantly being picked out 😅
A divan is a couch or sofa in parts of the American South, and I heard settee in parts of Vermont in the 80s.
Interesting... it's Russian for couch. I actually picked that when taking the quiz.
When I hear "divan" I think of movie stars lounging and being fed grapes. Basically you are expected to lay one person along the length of a divan instead of several people side by side on a couch or sofa.
And isn't a "settee" where you have multiple pieces (i.e. a set), including a corner, that can be arranged in different configurations?
My mother used to call the couch a divan. She is the only one that used that term. I traced her ancestry back and she had Irish and English but mostly English.
I like your sweater. You look like you should be in star trek movie.
And it's not red so he's safe
@@HemlockRidge Aye! 😂😂
Chekov? Is that you? Lol
I grew up in the East Midlands and my answers were almost identical,
the only differences for me would be:
'Backie' for the ride on the back of the bike
'Nan' for grandmother
My mother’s mother is my Nan and my father’s mother was my Gran (I’m from the West Midlands, though I’m not sure how typical of the area such a distinction is)
Like most of the Americans who have taken this quiz, I was correctly identified as not having grown up in the British Isles but being linguistically closest to Galway or Cork in Ireland. Although most of my ancestors came from the Lake District of England and from Scotland, the closest UK cognates appear to cluster around the Herefordshire and Worcestershire areas. I grew up mostly in Ohio but did spend 6 years of my childhood in California. This was fascinating! I've been a long time lurker on your channel -- this is my first time commenting!
While solidly in the "You're not from around here, are you?" category, the quiz plotted me firmly in Galway, Tipperary, Kerry and Cork - both times I took it. Not a complete shock because Chicago is far more Irish than English from a linguistic perspective. But where I landed both times is fascinating because those are familial regions - albeit four to six generations ago.
American here, born and raised between northern and central NJ and went to college in southeastern NC. Apparently my dialect places me in Ireland, specifically in the region around Galway & Killarney. Interesting
Same as German, who was thought "RP British English" and consumed much American media before spending 6 months each in Canada and Ireland... that however would justify it separately.
Jeff. Second-language speaker here, living in NJ, and it places me in southwestern Ireland as well. I think that's true of American accents in general, judging by some of the other responses here.
Thomas Okken Not necessarily.... :-) I think it has more to do with whether a person has remained in a small number of U.S. regions. I’ve lived all over the U.S., and the results of my UK dialect quiz returned no particular region.
There were many Irish immigrants to NY/northern NJ, I believe....
Same! Were there some blotches in lower England, too?
You'd have to look into the major migrations of Irishmen and Scotsmen into America.
They had a tremendous influence in the South and into the South Central Midwest, almost as a far as the Mississippi.
e.g. Bluegrass music, and influenced country-western music.
Laurence I'm so confused--I grew up in Chicago but lived north of London for quite awhile so I am all over the place! No wonder no one knows what I'm talking about!
Unsurprisingly I got the "not from around here are you" category, since I'm American. However, most of my answers corresponded the most with the area of England around London
I'm from the Seattle area and the test could tell I'm not obviously not from the UK but I was most closely aligned with cork and western Ireland.
I'm a deep Southerner and I also was shown as aligning with Western Ireland. Interesting!
Oregon and same.
I was born in Chicago, but have mainly lived in Arizona and Utah and got the same result.
I'm from Seattle too and it told me London!
I’m from New Jersey and got a similar result!
I’m an American,and I got the west coast of Ireland
I grew up in Michigan and have been here most of my life (2 years in Minnesota, 1 1/2 years in Chicago). According to the quiz my dialect is primarily from The Cotswolds and Bath.
My kids went to Bath High School in Bath, MI so that must be it. 😉🤫🤭
I always thought sofa and couch were used interchangeably. I didn't know that some people only used one or the other.
Yeah, they're pretty interchangeable, at least in my area of the northeastern US. My childhood household usually used couch, but as soon as I was out in public, sofa seemed to be the dominant word. Maybe it's because furniture stores tend call it a sofa. If anything, I guess I assumed sofa to be a slightly more "classy" or neutral way of referring to the furniture, with couch being more comfortable and informal, if that makes any sense.
I always understood what sofa meant, but never actually used it for couch.
I know in the midwest they tend to say sofa which is probably why that's the term he uses now. But when I was growing up in California sofa had a very specific usage, it was a couch that turned into a bed. It wasn't until high school that I realized that usage was not universal or even particularly common in much of the country.
I know what a sofa is, but I would never use the term.
@@costakeith9048 thats interesting, in my area of the midwest we call anything a couch and what you call a “sofa” is a “sofa bed”, “pull out couch” or “pull out sofa”
I did this a while ago and I did the extended version. It was impressive how accurate it was. The only red area was a ~15-mile radius of where I grew up (and I've lived abroad for nearly 10 years)
On Wednesdays I go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea.
I'm an Australian, born to parents from Bristol & Birmingham, and have lived in the US since 2001. British-Irish Dialect quiz pinpointed my dialect as London/Cambridge.
From Utah, my test came out on the west side of Ireland, but even that was pretty weak (Galway, Limerick, Killarney).
Thanks Sooooo much for posting the quiz for ourselves. Brought back many childhood memories. My family was originally from Waterford Ire. Now circa Nyc........ Happy Christmas to you and Tara Cheers.........
The test knew I was not from that area, however, if I was I would be closest to the southwestern portion of Ireland. Coincidently I am from the southwestern portion of the US.
Took this quiz, and got Birmingham and Dover. I've never been to the UK in my life.🤔
I'm an American Southerner. When I took the quiz, it put me in a sort of triangle between Coventry, Bristol & Hereford. Plus Cornwall, for some reason. :)
"You're not from around these parts, are you?" This was based mostly on what I use day-to-day here in the US vs what I picked up from my Canadian (step)mother and (step)sister. Though some of my answers did show usage inside mostly Ireland, occasionally England or Scotland.
Hello, I am an American and I took the quiz for fun. I got Galway in Ireland and Birmingham in the UK. It was fun.
- Wagging school.
Bunking off school.
- Chase-ies or tip (or tag)
- Lounge or sofa - I never know what the “proper” name is for this furniture item.
My mother always wanted to sound posh, so I’m sure that she would know. I’m going to take a guess and say that “lounge” is what she would have called it. We even had a fancy lounge room in our house. Only used on special occasions and/or when visitors came over. 🤣🤣
I now have the two “fancy” lounge room ...lounges in my apartment. I know that my mother would absolutely freak out if she could see what my cat has done to her once very fancy lounges.
I took it. Was spot on. It said Wolverhampton, and I'm from Dudley. Impressive
Took the quiz, we lived in Lancashire but my paternal grandparents were from Northern Ireland so the quiz put me in Stoke on Trent.
With “put” it depends on how I’m using it. As a term in golf, it’s a short u, as in but. As a verb, it’s a long u sounding more like foot.
@@Thelaretus You are correct, sir .... but I do not, nor have I ever .... played the game, read about it, or watched it on TV or live. However, I did sit next to a Mr. Tiger Woods at an American football game once.
Put and but rhyme where I live
I took it. Most similar to the areas around Birmingham and Lincoln in England. Born in North Carolina and raised in Western Massachusetts. I now live in Nebraska.
It did say, "You're not from around here, are you?"
Have you ever heard the American word 'idjit'? Because it originates from the word 'eejit'; I know this because I looked up the etymology of the word 'idjit'. As an American, I routinely use the word 'idjit' it refer to a 'stupid person' or 'idiot'.
Why is it when I hear the term 'woodlouse' or 'woodlice', I think of termites? Pill bugs or roly-poly bugs are not termites. They aren't even related in biology. So that shows how unfamiliar I am with how Brits talk.
Merry Xmas.
I remember when I was little I used to think it meant a idiot midget and call everyone in the grade below me a idjit
"eejit" is specifically an Irish pronunciation of ""idiot"
My mom and her family said Idjit all the time. I had zero idea that it was a derivative of Eedjit and Idiot until I met Irish friends through work.
I'm an American from California. The quiz accurately could tell that I wasn't from Ireland/Britain, and the only regions that were colored in at all were Limerick and Killarney.
Woodwindsrock I’m from Mississippi and mine said Dublin, Limerick, and Cork.
Merry Christmas.
He got so excited for wazzock, that’s awesome.
Apparently my southern California way of speaking fits most nearly to the south and west of Ireland.
I took the quiz. I'm American (raised in the East; moved to the West as an adult). The quiz didn't have a deep, red commitment but the nearest match was the West Midlands. It looks like Birmingham down to Bristol but starts to fade around Stratford-upon-Avon. And London-ish. Don't know how that works.
I'm American and when I took this quiz it said "you're not from around here", but also showed mostly south western Ireland
It placed me 12 miles away from where I grew up so very accurate
Really enjoyed that!!! She did a wonderful job!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Lawrence!
I grew up in Southeast Missouri and am of good German American stock. The grandparents, and the larger community of that area, didn’t start speaking English on the regular until after WW1. When I took the quiz it was pretty sure I wasn’t from there but put me closest to Birmingham, Cambridge, and Killarney. I also took the US quiz and it nailed me for the area just south of St. Louis, MO. Cheers
The test knew I did not hail from Ireland or the UK, but I matched closest to the Cornwall and Kent counties. Would like to learn more about these regions now!
It pinpointed me right to the town I was raised in and the other two are where my grandparents came from so their influence was definitely present.
I moved to Australia in 1974. But this quiz got me spot on as a Londoner.
I grew up in Michigan and it shows, but i do have some solid results from the Birmingham to Gloucester area. I know part of my family immigrated here from the UK so maybe that's where it originated.
Grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne (North East England). Currently live in Newcastle upon Tyne. Dialect quiz aligns my dialect with Newcastle upon Tyne.
Re: Dinner/Supper. In rural parts of the US (and maybe the UK as well), the farmer would, after a hearty breakfast go work hard in the fields til mid-day, then go to the house for a heavy meal, then more work then home for a lighter meal, often leftovers from mid-day. They called the heavy meal Dinner and the leftovers Supper . Those who lived and worked in cities, ate a smaller and lighter meal at mid-day and called it Lunch (Don't know where that came from), and a heavier meal after work which most call Dinner. What you call it depends on where you grew up and/or what your family did for a living.
I am an American and I took the quiz for the UK, Ireland, and Scotland. I showed me to places...one of them being London and another closer to Wales.
Just found your channel a few days ago, bingeing* through them all. Good clean fun, thank you!
After 28 years …. I finally understand “it’s tea time somewhere” 😂😂!! Any time I’m drinking before 5pm…I say well “it’s tea time somewhere”. Tea time = dinner time 🤯🤯🤯. We learn something new everyday!
Riding on the back of a bicycle is to "double-up".
In NW Pa where I grew up, they say "crick" for Creek.
And one "reds (rids) the table" for removing the dishes and such.
Also, smogasbord for buffet.
From New York. Took the quiz and it said i wasn't from Britain. So good job.
The quizzed mapped me almost exclusively to Ireland. Not surprising since my family has always lived in lower Appalachia since coming to this country. A lot of Irish settled in this area. Also, my Ancestry DNA test showed I'm 100% Irish and Scottish. It all adds up.
Im from Tennessee but got the Galloway area of Ireland which is where my grandma grew up.
Galloway is in Scotland, it’s a long way from Galway!😂
Oh i loved that quiz. It was mostly east coast of ireland but not specific. Glad my accent not too regional!
Rhotacisim -
Rhotacism or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment. The most common may be of to. When a dialect or member of a language family resists the change and keeps a sound, this is sometimes known as zetacism
Yeah, I'm kind of all over the place. But my father used to call that long piece of furniture with cushions a "davenport". Most everyone else I knew called it a couch or sofa. Fancy people (or those putting on airs) called it a divan or davino.
Davenport was the name of a furniture manufacturer in Massachusetts. Was your father from New England?
@@Markle2k Interesting. I didn't know that. No, my father was not from New England.
As a native Chicagoan, I am astounded to find that my best chances for hiding out in the UK would be in Manchester, the Isle of Man or Guernsey!
I'd go for Guernsey if you have money, a tax haven. Isle of Man equally safe, beautiful, idyllic. Manchester... best avoided.
Never heard a term for that either, New England here
I grew up in NJ, near NY. I got "Definitely not from around here are you? Your answers were closer to the average person outside of Ireland and Britain than anywhere inside it." But my top 3 places were all Western Ireland- Galway, Limerick, and Killarney.
Ha ha! The quiz found me out... That I was not raised in the UK! But the most similar places to my dialect in the UK were in northwest of Ireland and in Cornwall. I'm in southern US. Ancestors were from northern Ireland on one side and border area of England and Scotland on the other side. That would have been in 16-1700's. Grew up saying over yonder and fixing to!
I live in Missouri... and not me, but... I had friends that called their snack before after school but before doing farm work as "dinner" and the main evening meal as supper.
I spent my childhood in Gloucestershire, moved to the Bahamas for my teens, and went off to Oklahoma for college, so it's a miracle this thing could make heads or tails of my accent. I did the extra questions and it plonked me in this crescent reaching from Oxford to Bath. (The US version decided I was most likely from the Northeast - another crescent, this time from Boston to NYC).
(Childhood PE shoes were daps in Glos, with Plimsolls a close second).
I did this quiz and I showed up more in Western Ireland. Interestingly, I picked up a number of British terms from watching British telly and from a dear friend who has lived in Britain and the states. A few of the words I have heard in the area where I live in North Dakota. EAstern North Dakota was British territory before it was given to the US in 1818.
My grandparents were from Newcastle upon Tyne and Hexham. I called my grandmother Nannie.
Being an American who lived in Australia for a few years and has an Irsh grandmother from Maghera, Londonderry, here's my take on generic meal names:
Breakfast: First meal of the day. Must occur before noon.
Lunch(eon): A midday meal, occuring between 11 and 2 or 3
Dinner: The largest meal of the day, occurring at lunch or supper time.
Supper: An evening meal. May be early evening , in the place of dinner, or late evening, esp. after movies, the theatre, etc. Lighter than dinner.
Tea: a meal which occurs only in certain countries, and may occur at any time of the day.
While in the hospital in Australia in the early 70's, my father was served tea four times a day.
Elevensies: tea served about 11 am. Occurs in Australian hospitals and JRR Tolkiens fantasy world. Maybe also in other places.
I took the short test and the longer one and it got my area spot on, born and raised in Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
I did this extended questionnaire a while ago and it pretty much got me bang on. A circle of around 15 miles diameter around Bradford.
4:11 - I think 'tea' is the mid-afternoon snack.
From the confluence of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia and I was stuck in and around Cornwall/Dorset. Which when comparing the two, at least to me, there huge similarities
My daughter's fiance is from Newbury, Berkshire. She has lived in various parts of the US and in Japan, and currently lives in Alabama. She has been picking up a lot of his dialect and slang which I notice whenever we talk on the phone.
So funny - scone, bone and gone are all pronounced the same for me. *Eejit* - OMG - I cannot believe that is on one of the lists. I always thought that was just an American southern word. I find that just amazing. I cannot wait to tell my family that we are not eejits for using the word eejit! So excited.
I took this, grew up in England moved to US when I was in primary school, haven’t lived in the England for almost 20 years and it was pretty accurate, three blobs over Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Essex
I am from southern Alabama, about as southern American as it gets, but much of my dialect was influenced by TB. The British quiz puts me in the south of England near London.
I wasn’t raised, I was brought up.
Scone rhymes with gone and supper is supper. Dinner is a more formal meal.
5:00 - Heavy rain is a *downpour* .
I grew up in the UK. It was very accurate for me. It pinpointed me to within about 50 miles of Bristol, my home town.
"Definitely not from around here are you?" 🤣
It was quite correct: the closest I've ever been to Britain was in Boston.
I'm descended from Welsh and Irish Ancestors, with a couple Germans and Swiss farther back, via marriage. I was born and raised in Alabama. The Test put me in Galway, Limerick, and Killarney. Of my four different Irish ancestors, they were all, interestingly, from County Tyrone, in Antrim, not the Republic. My Welsh ancestors apparently bequeathed naught linguistically.
Coming to America made you adopt the word sofa? That's interesting, I didn't know there were regional variations in the U.S. when it comes to naming that piece of furniture. Here in NJ and on TV, I don't think I've heard it referred to as anything other than a couch.
Merry Christmas Laurence❤
I know this is a year old but this was so much fun. Growing up in New Mexico my results were "You aren't from around here, are you?" I got strongest placements in Ireland with a weird bouncing between central and southern England.
I grew up and still live in the north east of england and it pinpointed me to the exact town. The giveaway questions for me seemed to be:
babby, baba
mam, and nanna
beck (which apparently originates from the viking times)
yobs and chavs.
I took the quiz myself, as a North-easterner of America, and it ended up saying I didn't have anything in common with anything except south-western Ireland, specifically around Galway. It makes a certain amount of sense too since I do have some family that came from around that region of Ireland. So perhaps, there's something to be said about American dialogue and where the majority of people's ancestry came from.
Took the quiz and it put me right in my home city, Dundee, nice one :)
I adore these quizzes!! Spot on, that!!! 😉
Merry Christmas Laurence and Tarah!! Vlogmas has been wonderful!! Thank you, both!!!❤️❤️
I find that fascinating. Especially the pronunciation of the word "put". It really depends on the use. If you are playing golf, we pronounce it to rhyme with but, however if you are using it as to place something, then we pronounce it to rhyme with shook.
J. N. Sloane - The golf term is not only pronounced differently, it is spelled differently too: "putt", not "put". It seems likely to me that the pronunciation is different because the spelling is different. Or not, given that I pronounce "but" and "butt" the same way.
It was absolutely spot on for me!