What this measures
You describe ten sounds in your natural speech; no audio is recorded. Pronunciation carries more weight than vocabulary in the regional profile match.
Ten pronunciations
Can ten pronunciations reveal where you grew up?
Day, go, three, tune, beer and bear, car, cot and caught, pin and pen, Mary, and bottle.
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Question 1 of 10
Hold the vowel in “day” for two seconds. Does the sound move while you hold it?
Ignore the D and Y. Listen for one steady vowel position or a glide towards another one.
Questions chosen for this quiz
Five vowel and consonant checks now join rhotic R, three major mergers and intervocalic T. Together the ten clues travel much better than one famous shibboleth.
Live-bank answers carry into the full quiz.
Continue your result
Questions from the main bank carry into the full quiz, so you can get a broader regional and celebrity match without answering them twice.