The Great English Dialect Quiz

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by El Toro, Jan 9, 2014.

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  1. #1 El Toro, Jan 9, 2014
  2. Spectacularly South East. Which isn't a surprise as I was born and raised in Hampshire. Mate.
     
    #2 pingping010101, Jan 9, 2014
  3. Errr I'm spectacularly south east
    I think I must be adopted :-/


    Thank goodness I'm not fantastically welsh
     
    #3 Ducbird, Jan 9, 2014
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  4. Spec sou east and geographically I'm even souther :smile:
     
    #4 peter james, Jan 9, 2014
  5. #5 Robarano, Jan 9, 2014
  6. Im spectacularly south east :smile: . Well they got the south bit right.
    I think the pomms have the best grasp on the English language . Cockney rhyme , and just some expressions that you have to think about a bit . IE tother night on telly , policeman ( 99+% honest Im sure :tongue:) describing the rapidly departing ( on foot ) suspect as " really giving it some legs now " . To say nothing of Del boy , Dereck and Clive , Benny Hill. The language can be as funny as the jokes it is used to tell . I love UK TV :upyeah:
     
    #6 Mc Tool, Jan 9, 2014
  7. Says I'm south east. I was raised in Brum and have lived in Northants for some time. I suppose it is South East of Iceland.
     
    #7 Stressed Hippo, Jan 9, 2014
  8. Spectacular South East, which aint bad for a North Londoner like me :upyeah:
     
    #8 mattmccabebrown, Jan 9, 2014
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  9. south east? born in paisley, 10 years in aberdeen, 15 years on the west coast o Scotland. got a private education for first few years seemingly that can de accent ya. i now feel dirty and violated.
     
    #9 finm, Jan 9, 2014
  10. Another Ridiculously Northern here.


    If it was anywhere south of Kendal I would have been devastated.
     
    #10 johnv, Jan 9, 2014
  11. Aye... 'appen as not and like as maybe, tha's reet... Nah then, where's me tea ? Al 'ave that then am just off out t'take yon whippet for a walk...
     
    #11 JR45, Jan 9, 2014
  12. Load o rubbish if yer ask me, fancy not havin the word muffin fer a muffin.
     
    #12 timberwolf, Jan 9, 2014
  13. Spectacularly South-East.

    Should have been Happily Home Counties
     
    #13 Char, Jan 9, 2014
  14. Me too.......North Essex born.........
     
    #14 Ghost Rider, Jan 9, 2014
  15. Bummer - I'm also spectacularly south east - the years in exile have clearly taken their toll.

    I'm Scouse by birth, Yorkshire by blood, lived 5 years in North Yorkshire, 4 glorious years in Northumberland, but aged 9 moved down to Bedfordshire (the most nondescript of Home Counties) and have been stuck down south ever since. I still keep asking myself how come I ended up living south of the M4 (which to my other half, who grew up near Portsmouth, is the frozen north!)

    My accent mutates depending on who I speak to (I find myself sounding more northern if on the phone to the very Yorkshire or very Mancunian employees of some of the insurance companies I deal with who have offices in Sheffield, York and Salford) though the flat "a" is a constant - bath not baaarth!
     
    #15 MrsC_772, Jan 9, 2014
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  16. Spectacularly South-East. But originally from the Isle of Wight!
     
    #16 RadiheadR6, Jan 9, 2014
  17. Spectacularly South East...but then being a Ramsgate boy...I should bloody well hope so :upyeah:
    BTW...43 years living in the Midlands doesn't seem to have had any adverse effects :biggrin:......thank God.
     
    #17 Jonnybiscuit, Jan 9, 2014
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  18. Oi be proper english from the west country.......:tongue:
     
    #18 plug, Jan 9, 2014
  19. Born in Guy's and a SE Londoner.
     
    #19 deleteduser211220, Jan 9, 2014
  20. Thats ruined my Night Spectacularly South East
     
    #20 higgy748, Jan 9, 2014
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