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Post by Sfance on Feb 17, 2019 21:50:29 GMT
I doubt it - I live in Rochester, New York.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 21:51:33 GMT
I doubt it - I live in Rochester, New York. That settles that then!
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Post by mattador78 on Feb 17, 2019 22:13:13 GMT
On the EE board 😉
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Post by boskampsflaps on Feb 17, 2019 22:39:21 GMT
Its the one's threatening to leave or not renew they're easy to spot.
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Post by march4 on Feb 17, 2019 23:12:30 GMT
It spotted me as a Stokie.
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Post by mrcoke on Feb 17, 2019 23:54:36 GMT
Amazing.
I left the area in 1966 and have lived in Birmingham, North Wales, South Wales, Teesside, South Wales, Teesside, and retired to North Yorkshire, but it nailed me.
It wasn't quite right as it said Stoke on Trent, but I was brought up in Newcastle and went to school in Chesterton and Wolstanton. My mum was born and raised in Basford.
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Post by BuzzB on Feb 18, 2019 0:06:53 GMT
I got Manc Stoke and Wolverhampton FFS! Meir through and through ha!
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Post by rawli on Feb 18, 2019 0:11:30 GMT
Amazing. I left the area in 1966 and have lived in Birmingham, North Wales, South Wales, Teesside, South Wales, Teesside, and retired to North Yorkshire, but it nailed me. It wasn't quite right as it said Stoke on Trent, but I was brought up in Newcastle and went to school in Chesterton and Wolstanton. My mum was born and raised in Basford. My dad is same. Left Stoke at 18 lived all over the country including Devon for last 30 years, now over 80 and he was bang in the middle of SOT.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 1:23:52 GMT
I got Manc Stoke and Wolverhampton FFS! Meir through and through ha! It had me as Stoke and Wolverhampton. Not bad really as I am such of a mongrel.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 18, 2019 7:08:13 GMT
I live in deepest Devon and haven’t lived in Stoke for nearly 50 years. It pinpointed me as Newcastle u Lyme area which is bollocks because I am from Wolstanton.😀
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Post by madmickthe3rd on Feb 18, 2019 7:19:30 GMT
Nailed me to Stoke, even though I left in 1991.
For some bazarre reason it also had a strong leaning to south west Wales as well, a place I have only been to once in my life in 1990! The last thing I want to be is a plastic Taffy.
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on Feb 18, 2019 10:42:52 GMT
Yeah, I got Stoke too.
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Post by Stoke711 on Feb 18, 2019 11:18:20 GMT
My heat map between Scarborough and Lincoln. Born in Weston Coyney!
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Post by thehoof on Feb 18, 2019 11:19:04 GMT
Stoke despite having lived in Brum fro 1978 to 1986.
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Post by potterinleeds on Feb 18, 2019 11:41:35 GMT
Got either Stoke-on-Trent or Blackpool, despite having lived in Leeds for nearly 30 years and definitely having 'gone native' with some of my slang etc.
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Post by lordb on Feb 18, 2019 12:20:37 GMT
Stoke primarily
with some Wolverhampton & some Manchester
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Post by yeokel on Feb 18, 2019 12:21:55 GMT
It got my mrs as being from East Lothian which is correct, although it also chucked in a bit of colouring for Aberdeen and Fort William. We were in Fort William last year so perhaps she picked up a bit of dialect.
It got both my daughters as Somerset born and bred. And a mate of mine as Bristol with a bit of Bath, which reflects his upbringing perfectly.
It is interesting to think that if the police have recordings of criminals and/or suspects, they can learn quite a lot very accurately from words and phrases used.
NOTE TO SELF - Next time I write a ransom note, use words from Scotland, or Wales or somewhere to throw them off the scent. Och aye the noo.
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Post by swampmongrel on Feb 18, 2019 21:01:06 GMT
I got Stoke as well which surprised me after twenty years and all of my adult life elsewhere. I suppose I have a sort of posh Stoke accent which most people wouldn’t recognize. Especially proper Potteries folk who would never recognize the way I talk as local.
I also don’t use all the same dialect terms because my parents were from out of the area. E.g I say sofa while, I think, most Stokies would say settee while scone rhymed with gone when I was little and still does. From looking at the questions I thought the quiz would struggle to place me anywhere more accurate than somewhere north of Birmingham so I’m quite impressed really.
I think it was ‘tick’ instead of tag that helped the algorithm out.
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Post by mrcoke on Feb 19, 2019 8:52:01 GMT
I got Stoke as well which surprised me after twenty years and all of my adult life elsewhere. I suppose I have a sort of posh Stoke accent which most people wouldn’t recognize. Especially proper Potteries folk who would never recognize the way I talk as local. I also don’t use all the same dialect terms because my parents were from out of the area. E.g I say sofa while, I think, most Stokies would say settee while scone rhymed with gone when I was little and still does. From looking at the questions I thought the quiz would struggle to place me anywhere more accurate than somewhere north of Birmingham so I’m quite impressed really. I think it was ‘tick’ instead of tag that helped the algorithm out. I thought I was the same. See my post above, left the area in 1966. Last year I met a neighbour here in North Yorkshire for the first time who lives a few doors away. We got chatting and he asked me where I was from. I said I had lived all over for over 50 years, but was originally from Newcastle under Lyme, fully expecting him to say "Where's that?" But he said "I thought I recognized something in your voice, I was brought up in Campbell Road, Stoke"!
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Feb 19, 2019 15:37:13 GMT
Do you use the greeting "orate youth?" Is a glaring omission from the questions imho...😉
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Post by nik80 on Feb 19, 2019 16:19:06 GMT
Stoke
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Post by wagsastokie on Feb 19, 2019 16:30:13 GMT
Norwich sixty mile from where I was raised but have lived in Norfolk for the last twenty years
So fair enough
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