Linguistics Quiz: Which English do you speak?

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular/Ebonian

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Dutch
3. Norweigan
 
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Greek
3. Arabic Games With Words
 
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Accurate, but I dont understand how they get the Native First languages.
 
I lived in australia as a child for a few years, I actually had an Australian (melbourne) accent until I was about 10...
 
Yes, but I am confused about the Arabic and Greek. The only thing I can think of is the fact that there are a lot of arabic and greek speakers in Australia... perhaps that is why it has come up? Not in New Zealand though.. most of our immigrants in NZ are from Asia, or the polynesian islands...

Singapore is understandable as we have direct flight connections going from NZ to Singapore and I have been there several times on the way to other places.. Also I think there are a number of people from Singapore and Malaysia in NZ.
 
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?
1. American (Standard)
2. Canadian
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?
1. English
2. German
3. Norwegian- See more at: Games With Words

This actually makes sense, given where I live. A lot of Canadians have immigrated to my region over the years, as it's only an 8- hour drive or so to Montreal. Also, half of my heritage is Swedish, so it's not too far off the mark.
 
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English (England)
2. Scottish (UK)
3. Welsh (UK)
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Polish- See more at: Which English? on GamesWithWords.org

I am English but have Scottish family (and used to live next door to wales)... and apparently look like an Eastern European. Hmmmm!
 
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Singaporean
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. South African
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Greek
2. Arabic
3. Polish
 
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I didn't know where to put this so I decided this was as good a place as any.

I've been listening to audiobooks everyday for months now. A lot are set in England and other parts of the UK and have narrators with (what I assume are and what I call) English accents. I'm fascinated by (and love) the difference in how certain words are pronounced so I made note of a few.

How the narrators say these words.

Adversary: ad VER sary
Macrame: ma CRA mee
Euphemism: EFF e mism
Paprika: PA pri ka
Oregano: ore GAN o
Celebratory: cell e BRAY tory
Frequented: fre QUENT ed
Papier mache: PAY pee air MAH che
Disoriented: Dis orien TATE ted

How I hear the words pronounced here.

Adversary: AD ver sary
Macrame: MAC ra may
Euphemism: YOU feh mism
Paprika: pa PRI ka
Oregano: or REG a no
Celebratory: CELL a bra tory
Frequented: FREE quent ed
Papier mache: PAY per mashay
Disoriented: Dis ORE ree ented

I prefer the English accent. Maybe because it's different but it just sounds so much more interesting.
 
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KLS52 said:
Frequented: fre QUENT ed
Disoriented: Dis orien TATE ted
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It seems that my British English has been corrupted by 50+ years of living next to the USA. For most of your listed words, I hear the American version as more normal.

However:
Frequent (FRE quent) is an adjective.
Frequent (fre QUENT) is a verb.
The past participle, being a verb form, can only be fre-QUENT-ed. The Brit is right.

Disoriented can only be pronounced dis-OR-i-ented. The Brit is wrong. Adding the extra syllable TATE, whether stressed or not is simply wrong, on both sides of the Atlantic.
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that was fun and pretty accurate, although I would also have expected some UK in there as I grew up with a lot of UKisms

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:​

1. Canadian
2. American (Standard)
3. Singaporean

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:​

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch

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