Article 49C31 Dialect quiz tracks down where you grew up

Dialect quiz tracks down where you grew up

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Rob Beschizza
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I was easy to locate because the term "Had" for the game "Tag" puts my childhood very precisely in Worthing, England, right by Brighton in this map. But it also knows I spent two years in Essex. The NYT's British-Irish dialect quiz is a sharp application of science. The U.S. version was published a while back.

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