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Daphne Preston-Kendal

doing the dialect quiz as a Bri’ish person is fun

New England dialect found to be most similar to Old England dialect (sample size of 1)

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Where would the data be to make one of these for British English … gosh, I heard of so many attempts at new dialect surveys for England but did any of them ever complete?

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Question 1: Father and farther

[ ] are pronounced the same
[ ] are pronounced differently

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Question 2: The vowel at the end of ‘happy’

[ ] [ɛ] like in ‘fed’
[ ] [ɪ] like in ‘fit’
[ ] [iː] like in ‘feet’

(extra advanced option: distinguish between the somewhat risibly notated [ĭː] as in ‘feet’ and the [iː] as in ‘feed’. I’m not sure what this would tell you and it might make the question too hard for lay people anyway)

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|o/ clip _all_ the pre-fortis sonorants

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