New York Times quiz which pinpoints where you were born/raised by dialect

[PTR]

Had me down as North East, but not massively localised.

I did this about a week ago, and was the same - anything from the scottish boarders all the way to Scarborough!

 

[hypersonic]

Had me as Carlisle

My accent is pretty strong Durham like

Me mam is from Yorkshire maybe that’s crept in

Similar; it's got me between Carlisle and Scarborough.

 

[Charmless Man]

But is always pronounced but as in b u t.
Put can be put. p u t ( golf) as but above, but is usually
p oo t / p eu t.


They rhyme. How do you pronounce them?


The fact i say last like father immediately puts me in the south.

Not sure this quiz will tell us anything we don't know already.

Mind my result put me in the whole of south eastern England from East Anglia down to isle of wight, so a bit generalised.

A broad Mackem accent would have father as ‘fatha’ so the way we say last would indeed have the vowel sounds the same.

I’m mixed though, shorten the vowel in last and on the odd occasion I do say father it’s with the longer vowel sound. I never normally have cause to say it.