Dialect quiz tracks down where you grew up

[Purplecat]

As noted elsewhere, this quiz got me absolutely spot on. Its top two suggestions for my location were where I Live now, and where I grew up.

As for the American Dialect quiz, I remember we did that here before, and it had me coming out as either Californian or Hawaiian.

NY Times vocabulary quiz determines where you are from

Here’s mine: [image] Like the other North-West European Islanders in the thread, It thought I was an odd Hawaii-California hybrid. Which was surprising, because as soon as it gave me “Lorry”, “Car Boot Sale” and “Trainers” as options, I had expected the quiz to notice how blatantly non-American I was. As to the result, I wonder what direction the Californian connection to my vocabulary runs? Have I picked up some terminology from US entertainment which is based there, or have we exported ou…