What Kind of American English Do you Speak?

[ixnay]

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English

10% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[alva]

Your Linguistic Profile:

40% General American English

40% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
10. What do you call an easy class?: A doddle, walk in the park etc...

I call it a "bird course," as you can fly through it.

[DerSchwarzfalke]

I've always used the term "cake walk" for such an easy class. I do not know if that is just me or is more regionally specific?

Hardly a perfect test. My second person plural is "you guys," which is often abbreviated in the Philadelphia area as "yous." Head a few hours west to Pittsburgh, and you get "yins." I have let a y'all slip out from time to time, however. It is slowly creeping north despite my best attempts to resist it.

The test should also include something about subs/hoagies/heroes/foot long sandwiches.

[KrazyHorse]

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

40% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

A number of their questions didn't supply my usual answer, like the night before hallowe'en or an easy class.

[Ninot]

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

30% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[Az]

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Personally, I found general american english accent to be much more acceptable and pleasing than Cockney english for example. It doesn't hold truth for all British english accents, perhaps, but that's what my personal experience is.

[Odin]

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Crap test, my Upper Midwest score should be higher (yes, I have the "uffda, ya, ya betcha" accent and dialect)

[Gangerolf]

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[SpencerH]

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern


I pick up bits from wherever I go

[Sava]

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

thank god... no damn dixie in me!!!!


we should exterminate teh dixie

[Sandman]

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

4. The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called...

Eh?

5. You call sweetened, carbonated beverages:

Fizzy drinks.

10. What do you call an easy class?

A piece of piss.

13. What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in?

Shopping trolley.

14. You work out in...

Trainers.

The test should also include something about subs/hoagies/heroes/foot long sandwiches.

Baguettes. I think.

[lord of the mark]

40% general am, 40% Yankee, and 20% dixie (cause I use Y'all - which i picked up in Florida)

[lord of the mark]

Interesting. Of the Americans I had the highest Yankee. Jimmycracks had higher, having been brought up in Boston. Imran and Gepap came closest to me (among the Americans) - IIUC they were both brought up in greater New York, as I was. However IIUC they both are the children of immigrants, while I had one parent who also grew up New York City. So it all makes sense.

Except for Macciv, i suppose.

[Odin]

People call shopping carts TROLLEYS?