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  • Your Linguistic Profile:
    55% General American English
    20% Yankee
    10% Dixie
    5% Upper Midwestern
    0% Midwestern
    Last edited by Sirotnikov; December 25, 2006, 18:46.

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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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      • It's spelled "y'all."
        USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
        The video may avatar is from

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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." ~ Braindead

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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!
            The video may avatar is from

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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?

              From crazy driving fails, to weird experiments and celebrity culture, get the latest lifestyle updates at Supercar Blondie.


              -Arrian
              grog 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.

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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?

                From crazy driving fails, to weird experiments and celebrity culture, get the latest lifestyle updates at Supercar Blondie.


                Heh. So I belong in the USA and Sloww should hop a plane to Australia.

                -Arrian
                grog 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.

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                • 55% General American English

                  20% Dixie

                  20% Yankee

                  0% Midwestern

                  0% Upper Midwestern
                  What?

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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?

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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 O

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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

                        I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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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?

                          From crazy driving fails, to weird experiments and celebrity culture, get the latest lifestyle updates at Supercar Blondie.


                          Wait . . . 65 + 25 + 5 = 95%. I'm missing 5% of my linguistic profile?

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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?

                            From crazy driving fails, to weird experiments and celebrity culture, get the latest lifestyle updates at Supercar Blondie.



                            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?

                              This website is for sale! blogthings.com is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, blogthings.com has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!


                              Surfing.

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                              • 50% General American English
                                20% Dixie
                                20% Yankee
                                5% Upper Midwestern
                                0% Midwestern
                                1. The level of a building that is underground is called the:
                                  Cellar
                                  •Basement
                                  Either: it depends on the function of the space
                                2. What do you call the night before Halloween?
                                  •Nothing
                                  Devil's night
                                  Mischeif night
                                3. You bring back your groceries in a...
                                  Sack implies cloth
                                  •Bag
                                4. 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
                                5. 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
                                6. You drink from:
                                  •A water fountain
                                  A drinking fountain
                                7. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake:
                                  Icing
                                  Frosting
                                  •Both icing is hard, frosting is soft
                                8. Do you use the word cruller?
                                  No
                                  •Yes to describe a cruller
                                9. 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
                                10. 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")
                                11. 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
                                12. What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
                                  •Kitty corner informally (most of the time)
                                  Diagonal formally (when it matters)
                                  Catty corner
                                13. What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in?
                                  Buggy
                                  Carriage
                                  •Shopping / grocery cart
                                14. You work out in...
                                  Tennis shoes
                                  •Sneakers
                                15. "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
                                16. The second syllable in pajamas sounds like:
                                  The A in jam
                                  •The A in father
                                17. Does "caramel" have two or three syllables?
                                  Two
                                  •Three
                                  You say it both ways
                                18. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
                                  •Yes
                                  No
                                19. "Route" rhymes with...
                                  •Boot as a noun
                                  Out as a verb/gerund/action (network router)
                                20. Mary / marry / merry...
                                  •Are pronounced differently
                                  Are pronounced the same
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