05-19-2005, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 776
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What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
What's so funny about this is that I am Canadian. But then they didn't ask too much about accents 
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05-19-2005, 03:59 PM
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#2
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Content Team/Not Oloh
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 419
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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  |
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05-19-2005, 04:05 PM
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#3
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 669
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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.
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05-19-2005, 05:33 PM
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#4
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*Hugs* *smooches* *warm fuzzies* all around!
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 460
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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.
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05-30-2005, 06:03 AM
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#5
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 8
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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 |
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05-30-2005, 08:36 AM
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#6
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 311
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40% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
15% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
/shrug
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05-30-2005, 01:35 PM
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#7
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65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
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05-30-2005, 02:32 PM
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#8
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 6,273
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70% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
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05-30-2005, 05:48 PM
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Guild Officer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 930
Server: Shidreth
Name: Lovi
Guild:
Silky Venom
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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
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06-14-2005, 07:13 PM
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#10
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 11
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65% General American English
30% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Meh.
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06-15-2005, 05:12 AM
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Site Coder
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 22
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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.
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06-15-2005, 05:35 AM
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#12
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 11
Server: Florendyl (RP)
Name: Xar
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70% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Eh.. What exactly is Dixie? :P
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06-15-2005, 05:49 PM
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#13
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,891
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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? |
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06-15-2005, 06:21 PM
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#14
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 11
Server: Florendyl (RP)
Name: Xar
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Originally Posted by Skarlath
What does cruller mean? |
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
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06-15-2005, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Skarlath
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"?
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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.
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06-15-2005, 09:34 PM
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COOKIE MONSTER
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 94
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55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
This is too funny!!
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06-16-2005, 05:10 AM
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#17
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,891
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Originally Posted by Ayen
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.
Has anyone had one of these?
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06-16-2005, 09:28 AM
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#18
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 587
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49% General American English
25% Geek
20% Code
05% Gnomish
01% l337 5p34k
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What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?!?
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06-16-2005, 09:51 AM
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Staff Artist
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 384
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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.
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06-16-2005, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,891
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Originally Posted by Feyshtey
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.
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What's a crip course?
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