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| Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 55% General American English |
| 20% Yankee |
| 10% Dixie |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 0% Midwestern |
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Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English
30% Dixie
15% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
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ya'll.
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It's spelled "y'all."USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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I was trying not to say anything. Thanks, Will.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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I don't think anyone thought I'd make a spelling correction.USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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You Belong in the USA
Sweet!
People either love you or hate you
And you really don't care what anyone thinks
Big and bold, you do things your way
What English Speaking Country Are You?
Heh. So I belong in the USA and Sloww should hop a plane to Australia.
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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55% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper MidwesternWhat?Comment
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Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
You Belong in the USA
Sweet!
People either love you or hate you
And you really don't care what anyone thinks
Big and bold, you do things your way
This space is empty... or is it?Comment
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Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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Cor blimey, guvnor!
You Belong in the UK
Blimey!
A little proper, a little saucy.
You're so witty and charming...
No one notices your curry breath
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Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Wait . . . 65 + 25 + 5 = 95%. I'm missing 5% of my linguistic profile?Comment
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You Belong in Australia
Ace!
Sunny, upbeat, and cute
You make the perfect surf bum
Now stop hogging the vegemite!
What English Speaking Country Are You?
And now for the good news: Delicious beer and topless beaches!
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You Belong in Australia
Ace!
Sunny, upbeat, and cute
You make the perfect surf bum
Now stop hogging the vegemite!
What English Speaking Country Are You?
Surfing.
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50% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
- The level of a building that is underground is called the:
Cellar
•Basement
Either: it depends on the function of the space - What do you call the night before Halloween?
•Nothing
Devil's night
Mischeif night - You bring back your groceries in a...
Sack implies cloth
•Bag - The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called...
Toilet papering
•Rolling Any will do, but this was used in my youth
TP'ing - You call sweetened, carbonated beverages:
•Soda
Pop
Coke
no "none" option; "soft drink" or "caffeine" in general, and in a restaurant I ask for Pepsi - You drink from:
•A water fountain
A drinking fountain - You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:
Icing
Frosting
•Both icing is hard, frosting is soft - Do you use the word cruller?
No
•Yes to describe a cruller - What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?
Rotary
•Something else like a circle, traffic circle, or roundabout - What do you call an easy class?
A crip course a "crib" course is one in which easily obtained notes can be used rather than attending the actual lectures
A gut
•A blow off
no term for it; usually the name of the course was sufficient to convey the idea ("basketweaving") - If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it:
The Devil is Beating His Wife
A sunshower
•You have no term for it - What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
•Kitty corner informally (most of the time)
Diagonal formally (when it matters)
Catty corner - What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in?
Buggy
Carriage
•Shopping / grocery cart - You work out in...
Tennis shoes
•Sneakers - "Y'all"...
Just rolls off your tongue
•Is not sometihng you say
but I do say "you all" to distinguish the plural from the singular when it might be misconstrued - The second syllable in pajamas sounds like:
The A in jam
•The A in father - Does "caramel" have two or three syllables?
Two
•Three
You say it both ways - Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
•Yes
No - "Route" rhymes with...
•Boot as a noun
Out as a verb/gerund/action (network router) - Mary / marry / merry...
•Are pronounced differently
Are pronounced the same
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- The level of a building that is underground is called the:
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