Just by answering a few questions can America work out exactly where in the United Kingdom I am from? Where . in Scotland I'm from even?
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The New York Times has devised this quiz right, asking British people a number of questions and from those questions
Apparently it can say exactly where in the UK a person is prom. I'm skeptical to be honest, but I'm gonna give it a try
I kind of just lump like all of you guys as
America, as the New York Times and i know that is wrong
and all of you guys will not identify with the New York Times
But I'm gonna do it for the purpose of this video
and use the Times as your representative today, right here on this quiz
Okay, they're not paying me for that. I just thought it would be amusing.
How can a quiz know where I'm from in the UK? Alright, are we ready go?
Okay, the British Irish dialect quiz. This is interesting. Like can the New York Times with a simple quiz
really know where I'm from in the UK and Ireland?
How do you pronounce scone?
Rhymes with bone or with gone? gone scone, gone for me
Already Whittled it down to about half the country guys with one question, is disarmed me
I'm a bit shook already. How did it know that I didn't even know that
how do you pronounce the wards door and poor?
Do they rhyme or not rhyme, this is interesting right from me
if you're in England, I think you would probably say
door
Pour, that's a really bad attempt to make an English accent, right
This is clever. Like I like what they're doing. for me in a Scottish accent they Do not match, they don't ryhme
And it wittled me way down to basically Scotland or Newcastle so far
It's did a pretty good job already Northern Ireland as well potentially
question three, it's 25 questions here and only three questions in it
It's already got me down to half the country. So I think I'm in trouble here.
How'd you pronounce the words full and fool
They sound the same are they sound different?
fool as in you've eaten a lot and your full or
Fool as and look at that fool over there for me though soound the same actually
This is kind of a flip reverse of what we talked about. hey sound the same
that has basically now
Eliminated everything other than Scotland and Northern Ireland
know what do you call the small gray bug that curls up in to a ball when it's touched
There's actually two things I would call that bug is either a woodlouse or a Slater trying to remember
Because the more pure form of however
They said is when I was a kid in school woodlouse or a slater, would have called them both i would think.
Actually, I think that was probably the one I would use more but it's definitely
I don't know any of these other things are oh
And I seem to have thrown it off a little, and no thinks I'm only in England or Wales
Maybe I was brought up using the English terminology for that bug that bug question has just changed everything
Which of these words if any would you use for a young person characterized by brash loutish behavior - chav or ned
None of the rest of them the rest of their whole I know where they are
but like we went to say that in Edinburgh that
Chav, I would put those two. and it's brought me back into Scotland now
how do you produce these words?
Do they rhyme farm and palm for me They don't rhyme.
It's either a Scottish or Irish now and so it's still whittling me down a little bit
Which of these words or any would you just describe someone you think it's stupid?
Numpty definitely a numpty, ejit definitely idea idea. Yes
Pillock, yes
moron, yes,
Was like I've had like all these like would apply to be honest, but I want to check the ones
I think I've probably been bit more relevant for me, which has thrown the quiz off or even more questioning over 25
How do you refer to your grandmother and as again wittled me down to Scotland
Which of these words if any would you refer to a friend?
Dude, Maura bra bud Chum, buddy, buddy pal. Yes, sir. Brethren brethren
Really? I think it's gonna fool quite awfully bad because I would use a lot of these words apart from brethren
I would say bass kind of American right mate. Definitely
Has confused that somewhat which of these words if any would you use for feeling cold?
brass monkeys Baltic Baltic definitely freezin
Baltic I'm going to take that right away freezin
chilly
Perishing its perishing outside. We would not use that word in Scotland, its very kind of posh
Like that's something you would see in like Harry Potter or something, right?
nippy
Arctic we would use Baltic freezing chilly and nippy
what was the name of the playground game in which one child with chases arrest and anyone whose touch becomes the
Pursuer that would tige from me when I was below. That was take question 12
Which of these words of any would use for a piece of long-cushion furniture in the main room of a house?
I'm gonna say coach
it now thinks I'm not in the UK and thinks I'm American actually
No, how do you pronounce the words horse and hoarse? I think for me I'd have to say slightly different horse
horse is the animal you ride on, hoarse is what happened to me with this cold
because I've got this kind of flu thing going on
I'm sounding a bit hoarse. So they sound different from me and that has put me purely in Scotland and Ireland territory again
How do you pronounce the 'a' sound in last then? It says I think I'm ticking this box. They're also in the same
I'm in Scotland. What do you call the even meal ?
Tea for me. How do you refer to your mother?
mummy, mommy
mommmy
mom
auld one. I don't think anybody calls a mum old one anywhere in the world old dear. Would you call your mom?
old dear. I don't think so. Maw
If i saw Maw it's gonna put me in Glasgow
which apparently means
I'm in Northern Ireland which of these words if any would use for a heavy rainfall
Lashing tipping down buckling down pouring chucking it down.
which of these words if any would use for not showing up for school at work
Dog eat dog off scive off scab off. Yes, scive off and skip for me. Apparently that puts me very specifically in
Caithness, how would you pronounce the words food and good they rhyme from me. How do you pronounce the words but and putt?
but is obviously
bottom, putt is when you play golf and you're like hitting it on the on the on the
Would you call it the putting range sound the same to me?
Which of these words would you use for running water or smaller than a river
Burn for me a hundred percent about all day long it's a burn. How did you first hear the grandfather grandpa?
Which of these words would you use for a child soft shoes for PE
Gym shoes. which of these words of any will use for a baby
for us it's a bairn 100%
Oh
my goodness guys
The results are in this map shows what places where the answers most closely matched it all and based on more than 1 million
respondents who said they were from Ireland and Britain
How did we do? So it's saying I'm very much east coast to Scotland. Yes
included Edinburgh
ruled out Fife
interestingly
It says I'm from anywhere between Edinburgh and the borders one or two Angus towards Aviemore
So I would say like that is a very very good
Guys, like got me down bang on, edinburgh
It's got me basically the New York Times know where I'm from based on 25 questions. How would they do this, the New York Times
must have spent a fortune like again a million people interviewed for this. I'm actually really impressed with the results
How did they get so close down, got me exactly right to where I'm from that is bloomin oppressive
So there you go. There you have it. Today's episode a little bit of a kind of
Review on this quiz the New York Times, um bizarrely put together trying to figure out where I'm from and it got me, right
I'm not saying the New York times represents everybody in America, but that is clever technology
So there we have it on that bombshell. Thank you very much for watching guys. It has been interesting
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