How you say a few everyday words, and what you call bread, your evening meal, or a splinter, quietly gives away where in Britain you’re from.

This short quiz asks how you speak. After each answer a heat map lights up, showing where in Great Britain that feature is common, all drawn from published dialect research. Work through them and see which corner of the map your speech belongs to.

ⓘThis is a pixel-art version of the British dialect map. It was made by Alan Levita during a research internship at the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge, drawing on the research of Prof. Bert Vaux of King’s College, Cambridge. Bert’s work formed the basis for the original New York Times dialect quiz.

Your answers are used to estimate roughly where you’re from. All the maps were redrawn by hand in a pixel-art style, based on isoglosses from published research on British dialects. Powered by the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, University of Cambridge