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Title: Interesting test
Post by: Copps is Magic on February 15, 2019, 11:55:54 pm: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html?smid=fb-share

See how you come out.I was bang on the money. Reight Donny lad.
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Post by: tommy toes on February 16, 2019, 12:27:53 am: Bloody Kingston upon Hull!
Never been so insulted in me life.
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Post by: StocktonRover on February 16, 2019, 10:45:35 am: Kingston upon Hull for me too.
Grew up in Donny and lived in the NE for last 26 years - I only go to hull when we play them....
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:07:13 am: Saw that yesterday. Pretty much Bob on for me. It's got me in an area that looks to be bounded by Sheffield, Huddersfield, Thorne and Selby which puts Conisbrough/Denaby about dead centre I'd have thought.
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 16, 2019, 11:23:19 am: Bloody Scarborough/Kingson upon Hull!
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:24:39 am: Ignore the town names. That's just randomly picking out towns in the area. Look at the colours of the map.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:26:20 am: Although I've never felt comfortable round your lowlanders from the wrong side of Donny. Maybe tha's really Humbersiders after all, like I allus thought.
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Post by: Darren on February 16, 2019, 11:32:37 am: Sheff/Leeds/Scarborough
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:34:50 am: Interesting that there's summat in all our responses that's flagging up Scarborough. I've just done the full 96 question version and it's nailed the main region reight darn to South Yorkshire and southern West Yorkshire. But there's still a little blob at Scarborough.
Title: Re: Interesting test
Post by: Copps is Magic on February 16, 2019, 11:41:59 am: Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:34:50 am
Interesting that there's summat in all our responses that's flagging up Scarborough. I've just done the full 96 question version and it's nailed the main region reight darn to South Yorkshire and southern West Yorkshire. But there's still a little blob at Scarborough.

The traditional holiday destination of choice for south Yorkshire folk, then some of them ended up staying?

We were a skeggy family when I was a kid, always regarding Scarborough as rather posh.
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 16, 2019, 12:53:10 pm: Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:26:20 am
Although I've never felt comfortable round your lowlanders from the wrong side of Donny. Maybe tha's really Humbersiders after all, like I allus thought.

Bloody southerners.
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Post by: Glyn_Wigley on February 16, 2019, 01:13:15 pm: South Yorks/Lincolnshire/East Midlands
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Post by: Filo on February 16, 2019, 01:58:38 pm: Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 11:26:20 am
Although I've never felt comfortable round your lowlanders from the wrong side of Donny. Maybe tha's really Humbersiders after all, like I allus thought.

You Sheffielders from Denaby can view in awe at the great lowlands of Doncaster when you are at the top of the hill coming out of Consibrough i to Warmsworth

😝
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 02:23:40 pm: We couldn't see Denaby from the top of the Crags for the smog when I were a bairn.
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Post by: RedJ on February 16, 2019, 02:27:47 pm: Would you really want to see Denaby?
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on February 16, 2019, 02:43:01 pm: Christ, there's some elitists in here.
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Post by: Hounslowrover on February 16, 2019, 04:33:54 pm: Sheffield to Scarborough for me.
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Post by: roversdude on February 16, 2019, 04:37:06 pm: Bang on epicentre around Balby (well nearly - worryingly exact same map as BST)
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 16, 2019, 05:13:57 pm: Mine said Bentley with a touch of Cambridge. Must have developed a hybrid accent during my uni days.
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Post by: tommy toes on February 16, 2019, 05:17:04 pm: What was Cambridge Borstal like BB?
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Post by: Filo on February 16, 2019, 06:36:17 pm: Quote from: RedJ on February 16, 2019, 02:27:47 pm
Would you really want to see Denaby?

Good point, well made 😂😂
Title: Re: Interesting test
Post by: Bentley Bullet on February 16, 2019, 10:04:56 pm: Quote from: tommy toes on February 16, 2019, 05:17:04 pm
What was Cambridge Borstal like BB?

:ohmy:
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Post by: Draytonian III on February 17, 2019, 02:19:12 pm: Lincoln/Nottingham for me , which about right seeing that I’ve picked up some slang from the lads at work
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Post by: MachoMadness on February 18, 2019, 11:36:19 am: As an Edlingtonian(?) I'm staying out of this un, like.
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Post by: Filo on February 18, 2019, 01:27:36 pm: Quote from: MachoMadness on February 18, 2019, 11:36:19 am
As an Edlingtonian(?) I'm staying out of this un, like.

Wise move 😝
Title: Re: Interesting test
Post by: bobbymax on February 22, 2019, 05:42:59 pm: Teesside, where I hail from, not Donny where I've lived for 55 years - fascinating