Takeaway or Takeout? Food You Collect and Eat Elsewhere

The question, as everyone in the survey sees it

What do you call restaurant food collected to eat elsewhere?

Choose the noun you would use: “Let’s get a …”.

• Takeaway
• Takeout
• Carry-out
• To-go
• Parcel
• Something else

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Who says what

Each accent profile in the survey has an expected answer to this question. Where a profile allows more than one answer, the region genuinely varies.

Why this question is in the survey

Vocabulary questions like this one are the fastest way to place a speaker, because the answer is a single conscious word choice rather than a sound people cannot hear in themselves. They also travel: a word that splits England into five regions often splits North America into three quite different ones. Every answer is stored with a coarse map cell for the town you grew up in, and a region is coloured in once at least two people there have answered.

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