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

This is interesting.
It was quite right about my country and my first language.

It gives three guesses for each and its second guess for my native language was Hungarian. I wonder which feature of my language led to that idea.

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They were correct for my ethnicity (English, Swedish, and German). However, they were only right about my dialect being American. The other choices were Black and Singaporean -- both not even close.

It may be because several of the choices were not how I would speak, so I had to choose the closest representation. That may have skewed the result somewhat.
 
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I think the number one choice is what you are supposed to look at - the others are alternatives if the first one proves to be wrong.

Anyway - I did it again giving all the weirdest answers and they suggested that I am an Arabic speaker from Singapore - I didn't complete the last bits as I don't want to screw with their research.


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And where my "correct" answer wasn't there (when I did it properly), I left the question blank.


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I couldn't leave most blank since it kept refusing to accept a blank.
 
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You got me baffled proof. Apart from the pictures and the next three or four (which all have really straightforward selections) EVERY page can be left blank. I know because I've just done it.


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I came up the same as Bob: English, Welsh or Scottish with an alternative of Hungarian.


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I went back and checked. I was trying to enter info where I should have picked a choice from the list. Misunderstood several of the instructions.
 
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The linked-to site refuses me admittance. Is there a servant's entrance?
 
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Yes, my message was the site was under maintenance.
 
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I suspect that as this is spreading really fast on FB their server may have crashed


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Yes, I saw it on FB (not Bob's page) before I saw it here. The site was working when I checked just now.


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I got into the site. It thinks I'm Scottish. Perhaps not a bad guess, since Scottish culture was predominant in my native Northwestern part of South Carolina. It also thinks I may know Swedish and Dutch. I can get my face slapped in Swedish, but not in Dutch.
 
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