John of Aix wrote...
> In fact the questionnaire did not enquire as to where one learn
> one's language, just the current whereabouts, which was rather
> silly of it IMO.
Copied from the page where one registers:
"In order to map our results accurately, we need to know where you
acquired your dialect features. This usually (but not always) means
that you should enter the information below based on where you were
raised."
Regardless of that wildly irritating, yet increasingly prevalent,
misuse of 'based on', and accepting 'raised' as possibly being an
AmE synonym for 'brought up', this seems to indicate that you may
have misunderstood something. I had no idea what the postcode is
for the place where I was 'raised', because postcodes hadn't been
invented before I left. I had to look it up on Multimap.
--
Noel
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