Which English Do You Speak?

[Orion]

A fascinating quiz here:

http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/

For what it's worth, its top three dialect guesses for me were English, Scottish and Welsh.
All my grandparents were born in NZ in the 1880s so I think the results show the power of ancestral dialects and idioms continuing over generations.
Modern mass media exposure may alter that nowadays.

[Skywatcher]

For me it picked Scottish (correct), N Irish then Australian for dialects but a "native language" of Finnish then English then Turkish!

I know that Scots often use a different word order compared to other English speakers - I'd say "I turned out the light" instead of "I turned the light out".

[Thunder]

These are my results! lol

Our top three guesses for your English dialect

1. New Zealandish
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Australian



Our top three guesses for your native (first) language

1. English
2. Dutch
3. Swedish



What is US Black Vernacular / Ebonics? lol

[03Stormchaser]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. Singaporean
3. South African

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

1. English
2. Chinese
3. Norwegian

[tgsnoopy]

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. Chinese
3. Finnish

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Apparently, the current government speaks Bill English especially when it comes to financial matters

[Tornado Tim]

My results:
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Singaporean
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. Swedish
2. English
3. Dutch

[David]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Welsh (UK)


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

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

[jamie]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. South African

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Romanian

[Manukau heads obs]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. Scottish (UK) > correct..thats where my ancenstry comes from
3. North Irish (UK) > correct...thats where my mother comes from



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

1. English
2. German
3. Hungarian - See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEngl ... 5ygUT.dpuf

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

My top 3 English dialects were
1. NZ
2. Welsh
3. Australian

Top 3 Guesses for native dialect was
1. English
2. Greek
3. Chinese ?

My wife hed a go as well and she was offended by their comments so she wrote to them saying that here in NZ we have basically an English response to the English language rather than the Australians who tender to drop the letter 'u' in words like Labour, etc.

[Dale]

Which is true. Although I am Christchurch born, most of my life has been spent on the West Island.
My ancestors are of Scottish descent, my roots are in Canterbury but I am still blasted as a bastardised Australian.. which works well for me! I can pretend to be both & really mess some people up for my own humor.

At the end of the day, I have 3 dialects.. English, Maori... and obscene. They work for me

[Richard]

Mine work out as

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. New Zealandish
2. Australian
3. Welsh (UK)

Top 3 Guesses for native dialect was
1. English
2. Chinese ?
3. Hungarian

[obcx]

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?

1. English (England)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. South African
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?

1. Arabic
2. Hungarian
3. Turkish

It made me happy I am not native english speaker so I don't mind to this results :-d (I am Polish but I am living in NZ)

[Michael]

English-Croatian-French-Italian inglese engleskom englese croatie hrvatski italia,taljeskom francias

[Manukau heads obs]

I thought you would have spoken
galeic