American English

[Aurora Black]

Okay, this is the last one.

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

 

[AppleBiter]

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

 

[Tom Collins]

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

25% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

 

[3113]

Interesting:
***Your Linguistic Profile:***

75% General American English

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

I protest! Where's Pacific, Dude?

 

[Aurora Black]

What qualifies as "Yankee," anyway?

 

[3113]

What qualifies as "Yankee," anyway?

I could be wrong, but I think Yankee is best examplified by Bostonian.

 

[Aurora Black]

I could be wrong, but I think Yankee is best examplified by Bostonian.

Sweet merciful god!

Joking.

 

[kendo1]

45% American?
I think not.

Ken

 

[AngeloMichael]

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

30% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?


The "Route" question reminds me of an incident with my father. I was trying to help him use the remote control on the television and show him how to clear the screen. I told him he needed to press "exit", I pronounce exit as "eggs-it", my dad speaks broken english and just pronounces it as the letter X. So I kept telling him to press exit and he kept saying he didn't know what I was talking about, finally I show him the button and he says "OHHHHHHHH, X!"

A couple weeks later we are in the car and I tell him he needs to take exit 13. He says "Huh?", I say "Exit 13?" he says "What's that?" I say "EXIT 13!" he says "I don't know that word." I think for a moment and then remember the conversation with the remote and say "X 13?" and he says "Ohhhhhhh! X! Ok!"

 

[Aurora Black]

The "Route" question reminds me of an incident with my father. I was trying to help him use the remote control on the television and show him how to clear the screen. I told him he needed to press "exit", I pronounce exit as "eggs-it", my dad speaks broken english and just pronounces it as the letter X. So I kept telling him to press exit and he kept saying he didn't know what I was talking about, finally I show him the button and he says "OHHHHHHHH, X!"

A couple weeks later we are in the car and I tell him he needs to take exit 13. He says "Huh?", I say "Exit 13?" he says "What's that?" I say "EXIT 13!" he says "I don't know that word." I think for a moment and then remember the conversation with the remote and say "X 13?" and he says "Ohhhhhhh! X! Ok!"

 

[oggbashan]

It doesn't work too well with British English.

I couldn't answer some of the questions.

Og

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

***Your Linguistic Profile:***

45% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Midwestern

10% Yankee

Should I have told them about me Irish broughe?

 

[kendo1]

It doesn't work too well with British English.

I couldn't answer some of the questions.

Og

Me too.
I guessed.

Ken the black and blue butterfly

 

[3113]

And I still protest! There's Pacific English missing from the list!

For example, the use of "dude!" and "Whoa" and "you guys," instead of "y'all." And refering to highways as "The 101" instead of just "101." Like "Take the 101, Dude!"

Where were those questions?

 

[Darkniciad]

45% General American English

20% Dixie

20% Yankee

10% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

Looks about right to me. Bit of a short test though. Something tells me they don't know a helluva lot about Midwestern slang

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern

 

[Saucyminx]

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

30% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

They skipped over my Pennsylvania Dutch too--and my appalling habit of picking up whatever accent in which i'm being spoken to at the moment.

 

[Remec]

Very very interestink

Ooh, this one appeals to me.

Born in Pa, left for Ca before I could talk, began school in Ga, went to Va, Ca, and back to Va to finish school, went to college in NC...have always been told I had off word choices and accent...

And the results are:
Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

20% Dixie

20% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

 

[Remec]

They skipped over my Pennsylvania Dutch too--and my appalling habit of picking up whatever accent in which i'm being spoken to at the moment.

You too? *g*

When I was in grad school, we'd spent an entire Fall semester doing both main stage shows and a fellow grad student's thesis production using various and assorted accents from the UK.

That December I went on the annual theater trip to London and, about three or four days into it, I ran into some of the other students out in town and discovered I'd been unconsciously using a British accent for who knows how long that day.

(I think it was an effort to fit in more, but don't think it worked. It *did* explain the odd looks I got at the fish and chip place I had lunch at and the pub I stopped in before going to see a play in the London version of Off-Off-Broadway. hehehe)

 

[FallingToFly]

***Your Linguistic Profile:***

35% General American English

30% Dixie

20% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

 

[Munachi]

5% General American English

25% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

but i also skipped over one question, and just put a random answer in a few others, because they were referring to things i have no idea about - like, why would someone put toilet paper in front of someone's house? except maybe they have an outdoor toilet there.

 

[Aurora Black]

why would someone put toilet paper in front of someone's house? except maybe they have an outdoor toilet there.

It's a Halloween prank. And it's throwing toilet paper on the house itself (and perhaps the car, trees and nearby shrubs) just to start trouble.

 

[Munachi]

tsss. americans... hehehe. why not put firecrackers into the mail box, as the kids do around here? my mom now finally got a new mailbox, after living for months with one that is held together by string. i told her it is nonsense now, new years is already in less months than the old new years is ago.

 

[Augusta]

***Your Linguistic Profile:***

50% General American English

25% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

 

[cloudy]

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% Dixie - duh

35% General American English

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee