What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[Raya]

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest)

What's so funny about this is that I am Canadian. But then they didn't ask too much about accents :)

[Orlun]

75% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee


I'm from the upper central plains where one of the big industries are call centers "'cause we talk neutral" or something :confused:

[Havelock]

50% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Guess my dad's Mississippi heritage factors in some despite my Connecticut upbringing.

[Ieranii]

60% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern



Cute quiz. I find it interesting that I grew up in the south (Florida) but my language is tinted with Yankee. How'd that happen I wonder.

[Azzikai]

80% General American English
20% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Born and raised in Seattle. Parents born and raised in Seattle. I guess I have no choice but to lack "flavor" in my grammar :)

[_Aatlaar_]

40% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
15% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

/shrug

[Nólaquen]

65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern

[Fozzik]

70% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

[Nepenthia]

70% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern

This is pretty interesting ... considering that I have lived on both coasts and in the midwest. Somehow I thought there'd be more midwestern speech.

Nep

[The_Fox]

65% General American English
30% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Meh.

[Draco]

75% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Well shuck my corn, I be run straight out muh town if'n my kin dun seen them nuhmbers.

Weird how I have 0 midwestern in me but I've lived in Missouri( with an ee ) since I was 3.

[Ayen]

70% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Eh.. What exactly is Dixie? :P

[Skarlath]

55% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

And im English!

What the heck is up with "Crip courses", "Shopping Buggeys", "cruller" and not including "Soft drink" in with "soda, pop and coke". A "rotary"?! "Kitty corners"?! How could there possibly not be 3 syllables in "car-a-mel"?

What does cruller mean? :confused:

[Ayen]

What does cruller mean? :confused:
I looked it up. :)

Main Entry: crul·ler
Pronunciation: 'kr&-l&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Dutch krulle, a twisted cake, from krul curly, from Middle Dutch crul -- more at CURL
1 : a small sweet cake in the form of a twisted strip fried in deep fat
2 Northern & Midland : an unraised doughnut

[Nólaquen]

What the heck is up with "Crip courses", "Shopping Buggeys", "cruller" and not including "Soft drink" in with "soda, pop and coke". A "rotary"?! "Kitty corners"?! How could there possibly not be 3 syllables in "car-a-mel"?

Hahah...the only one I can answer is the last one. I grew up around people that pronounce it "car-mel" as in a vehicle driven by Mel.

[LadySirse]

55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


This is too funny!!

[Skarlath]

I looked it up. :)

Main Entry: crul·ler
Pronunciation: 'kr&-l&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Dutch krulle, a twisted cake, from krul curly, from Middle Dutch crul -- more at CURL
1 : a small sweet cake in the form of a twisted strip fried in deep fat
2 Northern & Midland : an unraised doughnut

That morsel sounds ... interesting. :confused:

Has anyone had one of these?

[Dillgaar]

49% General American English
25% Geek
20% Code
05% Gnomish
01% l337 5p34k

[Feyshtey]

75% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

It was odd taking that test though. I often transfer my speech patterns according to who I'm talking to. I knew most of the other terms, and do use them depending on who the connversation I'm having is with.

[Skarlath]

It was odd taking that test though. I often transfer my speech patterns according to who I'm talking to. I knew most of the other terms, and do use them depending on who the connversation I'm having is with.

What's a crip course?

[Feyshtey]

Didn't actually recognize that one. But in the context of the others, I would imagine it's a gimme course. Easy A. No-Pulse-Requirement class.

[Skarlath]

Didn't actually recognize that one. But in the context of the others, I would imagine it's a gimme course. Easy A. No-Pulse-Requirement class.

I was guessing along those lines. In England a crip course is a doss course. :)

[Nhilist]

45% Dixie
45% General American English
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

I'm goin ta paak the caar, y'aall, This explains why I am confused all the time, well part of the reason anyway.

[Heloisa]

55% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern

Pop > Soda! (It's a Canadian thing ;) )

[Jaedewytch]

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


This is the profile of a woman born in Massachusetts, raised in Alaska and Northern Virginia and a variety of other places on military bases and who spent all her collegiate and grad school years in southern states. Should I also mention I have a Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric?

Rarely anyone can place where I am from based on the way I talk.

[Jaedewytch]

It was odd taking that test though. I often transfer my speech patterns according to who I'm talking to. I knew most of the other terms, and do use them depending on who the connversation I'm having is with.

I do this often. My parents live in Southwest Virginia, and when I spend any extended amount of time with them, my accent and speech patterns become much more Southern Appalachian.

On a past visit, I turned the word "spit" into a 4 syllable word. My husband, who was born and raised in Utah, laughed until he cried at that one.

[Raya]

...On a past visit, I turned the word "spit" into a 4 syllable word. My husband, who was born and raised in Utah, laughed until he cried at that one.
ROFL - I can't imagine what the word sounds like in four syllables, but even thinking about it is hilarious.

This switching accents can be hazardous though. A number of years ago, I spent a great deal of time traveling through the U.S. (I was born and raised Canadian). Of course I got singled out as a Canadian and teased unmercifully about "aboot" and "eh"? No one ever mistook me for an American, UNTIL I went back to Canada, where they teased me for my American accent. lol I was, for a while, a woman without a country.

[Jaedewytch]

The funny thing is, if I tried to actually make "spit" a 4 syllable word, it would never happen.

I am never conscious of shifting my dialect or pronunciations/annunciations of words. But back where my parents live, most people think I speak far too quickly and that I certainly don't sound like a girl from Virginia. Of course, I don't really think of myself as a girl from Virginia.

I have a terrible time answering the question "where are you from?" because of being a child of a career military man. And I moved all over (the south) whilst pursuing my education.

I have a definite "southern" twang, as Havelock can probably attest from being in Vent and TS with me at one time or another, but that is mostly from spending 7 years in Texas while working on my Ph.D. and 3 years before that in SW Virginia while working on my Master's. I live in Ohio now, so my accent "flattens" out a bit while there, but it is still a bit "southern" to most of my students. I can tell you, however, most Southerners do NOT think I have a Southern accent. And maybe it comes from living so close to Canada--less than 3 hours--and the fact that my husband spent two years in B.C., but we frequently sprinkle "eh" into our conversation without a second thought.

[Forestknight]

65% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern

Nor'Westerner here.

how do you say Potato? --- potahto or potAto? (potAto for me)
how do you say oven? --- Ohven or uhven? (Uhven for me)

just curious...

[Raya]

And maybe it comes from living so close to Canada--less than 3 hours--and the fact that my husband spent two years in B.C., but we frequently sprinkle "eh" into our conversation without a second thought.
Yeah, did you notice they didn't include a Canadian accent in that test, eh?

And Forest, I say potAto and uh-ven, but I also say tomahto :p

[Aelvan]

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
30% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

i ive in western NY

[Homeslice513]

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern

And I live in northern virginia

[Homeslice513]

And for the word route, I needed a both lol

When I say route as in road it road it is Root

But when I am talking about a network I use a rOUTer

[Amargein]

65% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

THOUGH~ I call the night before halloween "Cabbage Night" so these results may be skewed :p

[Genda]

55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Probably get the Yankee from my folks, they grew up in NJ. I'm surprised that my Dixie isn't a bit higher. Pretty cool though.

[Jasarina]

65% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


I was born in NJ and raised in VA hehe. Spent about 4 years in the south. SC, GA and FL. Been in Ohio now for 6 years. lol

Jasarina

[Ulysa]

80% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Yankee

[Woland]

95% Standard
5% Dixie

[midway]

65% General American English
30% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

im from TN so thats not as bad as i thought it was going to be

[Slide]

50% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern

British.

And fizzy soft drinks are Pop.

[Woland]

And fizzy soft drinks are Pop.

Amen.

[Tuffany]

65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

[Thrindorf]

55% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie

I'm from Northern New Jersey.

[Yikidee]

45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


Couple of things.

Sweetened, carbonated beverages are Soft Drinks,
What the hell is cruller??,
An easy class is an easy class,
A four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in is a Shopping Trolley and you work out in runners. ;) :P

Hehe, its amazing the difference in countries, but us aussies are a strange bunch apparently :D

[Integral]

50% General American English
40% Yankee
0% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


I'm not even from the USA... :|

Also wonder why don't all the percentages add up to 100. :p

[panjandrum]

60% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern

I'm not really sure I'm happy about these results or not...although I am totally addicted to these types of tests...

Crullers are donuts, or round cakes with holes if you don't have donuts over there. :)
As to the easy course, I've always heard them referred to as 'bird' or 'sleeper' courses.

[Damned]

50% General American English
30% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I'm from the UK (London) so some of the options did not apply to me but looks like I'm a General Yankee Dix :)

[Ominous]

80% General American English
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

I'm from Southern Ohio.