Of course, they’re not really set up to distinguish archaic RP from any American accent but Yonkers is still well wide of the mark.
Of course, they’re not really set up to distinguish archaic RP from any American accent but Yonkers is still well wide of the mark.
Also Yonkers.
Yeah, well. It’s not Manhattan or Park Slope, Brooklyn so it’s all part of The Great Unknown. At least they didn’t think you were from Jersey
Try the New York Times’ British-Irish Dialect Quiz:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
Weirdly, from Maine/New Hampshire. Gee willikers.
Salt Lake City
Me too. Yonkers via Norn Iron.
Then you can marry extra wives, BraveFart, should you want to.
So basically, pretty well all Brits, no matter their accent, sound like people from Yonkers. Really?
The UK one was a bit long, as it only takes two words to pinpoint my upbringing: tick and barmcake.
Mine is upstate New York – Buffalo and Rochester. That’s interesting, because my Michigan hometown was settled largely by people from upstate New York.
California. (Whoa)
Joisey – which makes sense because I once lived for a couple of months in Passaic.
The UK one has me as dahn sarf. Born and raised in Maidstone so not too far off.
Baltimore and/or Montgomery, Georgia….
It got me right with a California accent. One of the cities listed as an example is only 20 miles away.
Jackson, Mississippi, or Alabama for me, which is nowhere near Yorkshire. It was right about my wife coming from Chicago, although her answer to the roundabout question was “scary”.
NYC, Jersey city and Honolulu. ?
It got my English origin right, although the red bits covered most of the SE. And Bath, from where I am not.
Maybe my browser is taking me to a page different from the one the link takes you to. I wound up on a page with 25 vocabulary questions, but no microphone icon for them to determine my spoken accent.
(N.B. by Yonkers they mean anywhere in Westchester county.)
I am Tasmanian and it returned Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Pembroke Pines.
I have never been to the US so wouldn’t know if that stacks up at all.
“ Jackson, Mississippi, or Alabama for me, which is nowhere near Yorkshire. It was right about my wife coming from Chicago, although her answer to the roundabout question was “scary”.”
That’s where I ended and I’m a Yorkshireman. At least it seems to be consistent.
It thinks I’m from Maine. It’s right.