What Kind of American English Do you Speak?

[Atahualpa]

Your Linguistic Profile:

35% General American English

35% Yankee

25% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

Nobody from the midwest really?

I tend to say Roote instead of Route. And Pajahmas instead of pajamas (as in jam).
Is this yankee or dixie?

[MikeH]

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

BUT

A lot of those questions had no correct answer. For instance an easy class isn't called any of those things... so I had to just make answers up for about 4 questions.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Oerdin

I find it funny that the language we speak in California has basically become accepted as standard American English. I suppose this has something to do with Hollywood and so much of the mass media being based in California so that our way of saying things just becomes the accepted way after a while.

Standard American English is more a product of the midwest than California, and isn't based on Hollywood's media reach. Rather California is home to zillions of people who originated in other parts of the U.S. (in particular people from the south and midwest) and thus whatever tendencies it may have been developing have constantly been drowned by immigration. Standard dialect was simply an easier mean to reach, was easy to hear via radio and television and didn't suffer from any of the social stigma that the southern dialects did.

Hollywood changed the accents it used / preferred over time. Notice how in the 1930s & 1940s movie actors tended to affect a more Yankee accent (verging almost on something of an British accent). This coincided with New York's reign as the nation's cultural capitol, and in particular its predominance for stage actors. As radio and then television became more important the accents of the midwest came to predominate. By the time television started to move network production facilities from New York to California in the 1960s the fix was already in, with network hosts and newscasters overwhelmingly using the standard dialect, even when it wasn't their native dialect.

[General Patton]

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

[Atahualpa]

Does the hypthosis that non native american english speakers have a more balanced profile among general, yankee and dixie, hold?

[MrFun]

I have a little bit of Dixie in me.

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[Ben Kenobi]

I tend to say Roote instead of Route. And Pajahmas instead of pajamas (as in jam).
Is this yankee or dixie?

Yankee. Like pahk the cahr in the hahvard yahd.

[Wezil]

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern

Several questions had no correct option for me. ("tennis shoes" or "sneakers" - - - no "running shoe" option)

[Solly]

Originally posted by MOBIUS


Yeah! They're called Trainers...

Also:

5. You call sweetened, carbonated beverages: Soft Drinks

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

Simple as, eh?

[Heresson]

50% General American English
35% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

[SlowwHand]

55% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

[Solly]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
55% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

Says it all.

[SlowwHand]

I don't suppose I understand your point.

[Solly]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I don't suppose I understand your point.

[:) Smiley]

slightly modified to reflect results not captured by the survey...

Your Linguistic Profile:

25% General American English

15% Yankee

15% Asian Engrish

15% Ebonics

15% 13375p34k

10% Dixie

10% Spanglish

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?