What Type of American Are Y'all?
I found this linguistic regionalism assessement bouncing around the blog world this morning. Please get profiled and post your results so we can tease each other! It's quick, don't worry.
American English Test
Here are my results:
45% General American English
30% Yankee (yeah right! That's just because I can order a cruller in a pinch.)
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
American English Test
Here are my results:
45% General American English
30% Yankee (yeah right! That's just because I can order a cruller in a pinch.)
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
posted by Elizabeth at 10:30 AM
4 Comments:
Agent E and I are not that different! My scores:
40% Yankee
30% General American
25%Dixie
5% Upper Midwest
0% Midwestern
Here are my scores:
40% Yankee
35% General American English
25% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Here are my scores. I am a bit surprised by the lack of a midwestern influence, but was certainly relieved that there was no yankee.
70% General American English
25% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee
I'd like to coin an epithet:
"Dixie-Hick". I won't bother to define it, though.
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