April 19, 2005

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  • Your Linguistic Profile:
    50% General American English
    25% Yankee
    15% Dixie
    10% Upper Midwestern
    0% Midwestern

    Told ya I was a mutt.

    :)

    me<><

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    0% Midwestern

    <a href="http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/">What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

    I'm surprised it's not more Midwestern than this by now, 20 years on.

  • I was EXACTLY the same as you!!

  • 65% Gen. Am Eng.

    25% Dixie

    5% Midwestern

    5% Upper Midwestern.

    And you had 5% Yankee????Where did I go wrong???? Mom of Elaine and Anne

  • I was WRONG! (It's a first, believe me. ) I just looked at the percentages, assuming they were in the same order. I have NO Yankee in me, thank you very much. I match mom exactly. (She's never wrong either.)

  • 60% General American English
    15% Upper Midwestern
    10% Dixie
    10% Yankee
    5% Midwestern

    I'm a transplanted Californian living in Ohio. They should have added breakfast/lunch/dinner or breakfast/dinner/supper! That one tripped us up a bit when we got here.

  • Your Linguistic Profile:
    50% General American English
    40% Yankee
    10% Dixie
    0% Midwestern
    0% Upper Midwestern

    Highest Yankee yet, and darn proud of it!

  • Moosie,

    I bet you could take that test and be whatever you wanted. You know the idosyncrisies of several regional groups, especially Pittsburgh - which is an "American English" all its own and should be credited as such in this test!

    So you probably cheated.

    ;)

    me<><

  • [aggrieved] It's from hanging around all these Yankeefied types...I've been infected. What on earth needs to be corrected, though?

    Thinking about it, I'll bet I know what it was. I said "either or both" to the sofa/couch question. Should have simply answered "sofa."

  • 75% General American English
    15% Yankee
    10% Upper Midwestern
    0% Dixie
    0% Midwestern

  • Sofa/couch??? Did we take the same test??

  • Yeah, Anne,  my test didn't have a couch / sofa question.  Good heavens.  I've agreed with Elaine on something!

    I was 50% general, 35% Dixie, 10% Yankee (perish the thought), and 5% upper midwest.

  • Plumtree13, do we usually not agree?

  • Mine did. I distinctly remember it.

  • My quiz didn't have a sofa/couch question either.

    Did they have davenport and chesterfield as options, too?

  • Well, I took it again and this time there was no sofa/couch question.

    Maybe that was on another test? I can't think which one, though!

    Sorry for the confusion. And upon taking it again, and answering the same as yesterday, best I can remember, I somehow ditched the Yankeeism:

    70% General American English
    25% Dixie
    5% Midwestern
    0% Upper Midwestern
    0% Yankee

  • Bradley! I'm more DIXIE than YOU!!

    The test, if you all can stand the thought, is obviously STOOPID!

    ;)

    me<><

  • Forget that last comment about being more dixie than Bradley - scrolling, I read the wrong one for him. But still, I shouldn't be that close.

    me<><

  • It just shows how we're takin' over, sugar.

    The indoctrination proceeds apace.

  • EGEATP

  • 60% General American English
    30% Yankee
    5% Dixie
    5% Upper Midwestern
    0% Midwestern

    Thought I'd come in higher Upper Midwestern, but I guess I haven't lived here long enough.

  • Your Linguistic Profile:
    50% General American English
    25% Dixie
    10% Upper Midwestern
    10% Yankee
    0% Midwestern

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