http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/

I speak 60% general and 25 % yankee. Suprised the heck out of me lol.

I'm a bit of everything ;) Not surprising since English isn't my native tounge!

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

Wow, I'm also a bit of everything lol. Really strange.

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

:cool:

60% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Mostly smut, I'm afraid. :)

Mostly Midwestern.

55% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern

65% General
25% Dixie
5% Midwest
5% Upper Midwest
0% YANKEE!!! :rockerdud

South Texas to the bone, baby.

~Diamond~

bawstin tawk ! :silly:

Just got this from my dad so I'll post it hee-ah.

Being From Boston

For those of you who have never been to "Bawstin", this is a good
guideline.
I hope you will consider coming to "Beantown" in the near future.
For those who call New England home, this is just plain great!

Information on Boston and the surrounding area:

There's no school on School Street, no court on Court Street,
no dock on Dock Square, no water on Water Street.

Back Bay streets are in alphabetical "oddah":
Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, etc.

So are South Boston streets: A, B, C, D, etc.
If the streets are named after trees (e.g. Walnut, Chestnut, Cedar),you're on Beacon Hill.

If they're named after poets, you're in Wellesley.

Massachusetts Ave is Mass Ave; Commonwealth Ave is Comm Ave;
South Boston is Southie. The South End is the South End.
East Boston is Eastie. The North End is east of the former est End.The West End and Scollay Square are no more; a guy namd Rappaport got rid
of them one night.
Roxbury is The Burry, Jamaica Plain is J.P.

Definitions:
Frappes have ice cream, milkshakes don't.
If it is fizzy and flavored, it's tonic.
Soda is CLUB SODA.
"Pop" is Dad.
When we want Tonic WATER, we will ask for Tonic WATER.

The smallest beer is a pint.

Scrod is whatever they tell you it is, usually fish.
If you paid more than $6/pound, you got scrod.
It's not a water fountain; it's a bubblah.
It's not a trashcan; it's a barrel.

It's not a spucky it's a sub.

It's not a freak of nature, it's a freakin -h- er!

It's not a shopping cart; it's a carriage.
It's not a purse; it's a pockabook.
They're not franks; they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.

Police don't drive patrol units or black and whites they drive a "crooza".
If you take the bus, your on the "looza crooza".
It's not a rubber band, it's an elastic.
It's not a traffic circle, it's a rotary.
"Going to the islands" means Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket.
If something's good, it's "pissa". If something's really good, it's "wicked pissa".

The Pat's = The Patriots
The Sox = The Red Sox
The C's = The Celtics
The B's = The Bruins

Things not to do:
Don't pahk your cah in Hahvid Yahd ... they'll tow it
to Meffa (Medford) or Slumaville (Somerville).

Don't sleep in the Common. (Boston Common)

Don't wear Orange in Southie on St. Patrick's Day.

Things you should know:
There are two State Houses, two City Halls, two
courthouses, two Hancock buildings (one old, one new for each).

The colored lights on top the old Hancock tell the weatha':
"Solid blue, clear view...."
"Flashing blue, clouds due...."
"Solid red, rain ahead...."
"Flashing red, snow instead...." - (except in summer;
flashing red means the Red Sox game was rained out)

Route 128 is also I-95 south. It's also I-93 north.

The underground train is not a subway. It's the "T",
and it doesn't run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain't Noo Yawk).

Order the "cold tea" in China Town after 2:00 am you'll get a kettle full of beer.

Bostonians... think that it's their God-given right to cut off someone in traffic.

Bostonians...think that there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R's).


Bostonians...think that three straight days of 90+ temperatures is a heat wave.

Bostonians...refer to six inches of snow as a "dusting."

Bostonians...always "bang a left" as soon as the light turns green,and oncoming traffic always expects it.

Bostonians...say everything in town is "a five-minute walk." (pronounced "wok")

Bostonians...believe that using your turn signal is a sign of weakness.

Bostonians...think that 63-degree ocean water is warm.

Bostonians...think Rhode Island accents are annoying.

How to say these Massachusetts city names correctly:
Worcester: Wuhsta (or Wistah)
Gloucester: Glawsta
Leicester: Lesta
Woburn: Wooban
Dedham: Dedim (like denim)
Revere: Re-vee-ah
Quincy: Quinzee
Peabody: Peabuddy
Waltham: Walth-ham
Chatham: Chattum

:rollin:

55% General
40% Yankee
5% Dixie

but it was not a good test for me:

- I used both "cellar" and "basement" equally
- I don't use "soda" or "pop"... I use "cola" (well, "cola" for Coke-type and "soda" for the other non-cola sodas)
- I pronounce "aunt" both ways
- I don't have any nickname for an easy class
- If something is labeled as "cruller" then I do call it a cruller; otherwise I call it whatever it is labeled.
- I use "circle" and "rotary" equally
- To me, tennis shoes are sneakers, but not all sneakers are tennis shoes... so I workout in each, depending on the activity

70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I'm

70% General American English
25% Dixie (no shock there)
5% Yankee (I wonder which question that was.)

0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


ETA Diamondheart, we are VERY similar in how we speak :rockerdud.

65% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I am utterly mystified by the Yankee, I thought I was from South Texas :rockerdud

55% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


can someone tell me what a "dixie" is?

55%general english
30%yankee
15% dixie.

Now, where in the world did I pick up dixie????!!!!LOL

45% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

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

Of course, I'm a girl who grew up in Wisconsin, considers herself to be Minnesotan, lives in Nevada, regularly uses the word "y'all", and is the world's biggest accent sponge (speak to me in your accent, I will magically reply in your accent without meaning to! Whether you're from Texas, Scotland, or Egypt, I will pick up your speech patterns! Very annoying.)

There's another nifty test in the same vein here (http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html) which tells you where each response you give is generally located.

50% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

This is what I get for moving so much. I have no idea where I picked up the upper midwestern, never been anywhere near there. Unless Mississippi counts? No. that would be dixie I guess. Surprised I don't have more Yankee since I grew up in MD.

65% General English
30% Dixie

Something must be wrong. Those numbers should be reversed :silly:

Meg

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

However, it's really 100% mutt, since it's not my first language.

Ladysorka - I do the accent sponge thing too, even though I try not to.

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

They didn't ask the right questions for Wyomingites :D

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

Me and KarenLynn got the same!

English isn't my first language either.I learned English in kindergarten,from tv,and reading.So,it's just general American English.I don't know where I got the yankee and Dixie from!

The other test says:

65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Well,I thought I would be more general American English,but I am from the southeast.

I speak:

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

The first three I can understand (I grew up in Southern NJ--which might as well be Virginia (Dvips called me out on this :D Rural southern NJ is probably better equated to Kansas... seriously), spent a good amount of time in Texas, and now live in FL). The Upper Midwestern part boggles my mind, though.

For the second test, I scored:

59% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

ETA: Someone above mentioned that they are an accent sponge! I am too! I pick up accents and regional words at the drop of a hat... and often continue to use them long after I leave the area (especially regional words)!

Interesting thread - I love this stuff :wink:

60% general
15% dixie
15% yankee
5% upper midwestern

The test isn't foolproof (but still interesting). I would have answered the questions somewhat differently 20 years ago. For example, I used to call a soft drink "pop", but now call it "soda" because that is common here in the south. Some words I use interchangeably; in that case I chose what I think I would most commonly call something. I used to say "you guys"; now I say "y'all" sometimes. Etc.

For Desty Nova - "Dixie" is a term given to the southeastern part of the U.S.

And I'm going to have to look up "cruller" in the dictionary!

Julie

70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

85% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern

45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie

I'm wondering what that does say about my choice of favourite authors, since I learned English from reading novels...

--Thea
Shimotsuruma, Japan

Hmm...it's rigged!

40% Yankee
35% General American English
25% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I'm not even American and I'm 40% Yankee! :wail:

Some of the questions had no viable choice for me. :(

5. You call sweetened, carbonated beverages:

Soda
Pop
Coke
No Soft Drink selection

6. You drink from:

A water fountain
A drinking fountain
A bubbler

10. What do you call an easy class?

A crip course
A gut
A blow off
None of the above

70% General American English15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee

I grew up in Southern NJ--which might as well be Virginia

?? I find South Jersey and VA to be very different. Do you really find them to be so alike?

Hmm...it's rigged!

40% Yankee
35% General American English
25% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I'm not even American and I'm 40% Yankee! :wail:


No matter how you answer, you will come up only with variations of American English - those are the only choices. If you look at the URL, it says something about AMenglish.

For those who don't know (like me, until I looked it up) a cruller is:

1 : a small sweet cake in the form of a twisted strip fried in deep fat
2 Northern & Midland : an unraised doughnut

according to http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=cruller&x=0&y=0

Just don't spell it crueller - that is an adjective ;) LOL

ETA on the second test I got:
70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

So the first link says....
60% General
20% Dixie
20% Yankee


And the second link says...
56% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

But just like several others I ,too, am an accent sponge. My Japanese freinds think it's great that I can mimick a work on the first or second time. Right down to feeling and intonation. I may not know what it means but I can say it.

I don't know where all the dixie came from. I have never been down into that region. I spent the first part of my child hood in Minesota and the second half in Colorado, then moved to Washington after school. I'm just a mixed up linguist....

But....
I some times drink from a scuttlebut
I work out in tenner shoes
Y'all is singular-All Y'all is plural
Also a small river is called a crick or a creek depending on how much garbage is in it. (A crick has a couple broken refrigerators, a tire or two, and trash along the bank)

55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Upper Midwest
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern

Yeah, that's accurate. I have drawly vowels of the South, and clipped consonants of the North. It's not pretty.

This this sure is :suspect: ....

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
35% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

And I've lived in West Virginia my whole life! At least three of the questions totally didn't apply to anything I've ever said in my life, and they barely asked any real Southernism questions anyway. HMMMMM..... :ponder:

Speedy, who is so way more than 35% Southern! LOL

60% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
10% Midwestern
0% Yankee

I was born and raised here in Oregon. My mother was from South Carolina and my father from Missouri so I found this very interesting indeed :grin:

THat was fun!

65% general American English

20% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

I will say POP until the day I die :lol:

What awesome sites!

For the first I was:

65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern

On the second test:

43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I can't wait to forward these two sites to friends/coworkers.

I speak:
75% General American English...lived in AZ for the last eight years
15% Dixie....picked up while living in MS
10% Yankee....also picked up while living there, maybe? Or was it picked for NJ

OK, this is bound to produce very odd results, as I am from Essex/East London and have lived in Maryland for the last 15 years.

On the first test I get 50% general, 30% yankee and 20% dixie, and on the second one I get 65% dixie.

Problem questions:-

Q4 (test 1) or Q17 (test 2)

- I have no idea why anyone would want to cover a house with toilet paper (?), and have never seen it done, or heard of it being done, so naturally I have no word for it.

Q5 (test 1) or Q16 (test 2)

- Soda is the word used here, but back home we normally say either fizzy drinks or minerals, rarely soft drinks, very rarely pop (I think my grandfather called it pop), and never soda

Q10 (test 1)

- we call an easy class an easy class, and not being educated in the US I have picked up no words for it here

Q13 (test 1)

- That's a shopping trolley, although here they call it a cart (note that on a real shopping trolley all four wheels pivot!)

Q14 (test 1) or Q11 (test 2)

- those type of shoes are called plimpsolls, after the plimpsoll line on a ship, if they are canvas, or locally deck shoes which isn't listed either, or if they are not canvas they are trainers, which the locals call sneakers, but it seems that they call some leather shoes sneakers as well, so I am never sure which they mean?

Q7 (test 2)

- I'd address a group of people as 'you'

Q8 (test 2)

- That's a car boot sale, although rummage sale might be used, and here it's a yard sale (car boot = car trunk)

Q9 (test 2)

- That's a torpedo roll, although the locals call it a sub (odd, considering subs fire torpedoes!)

Q20 (test 2)

- I've no idea what kind of insect rolls itself in a ball, and we don't usually call them bugs either

Well, I know the test is really for Americans, but the title didn't give that away.

70% General American English
25% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

That sounds about right to me. :grin:

76% Dixie for the second test. :bigeyes:

45% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

Hmmm.... Impressive for a girl who's never left England. To be honest though, I had to just press random buttons in some places because they didn't have an option that matched what I would say. It was aimed at Americans from the title, so thats not really a shocker.

?? I find South Jersey and VA to be very different. Do you really find them to be so alike?

Depends on what you mean by South Jersey. If you mean Cherry Hill or Atlantic City (heck some folks even go as far as calling the Trenton area "South") and the like, then no.

If you mean rural Salem County, NJ (where I am from)... I suppose it would be better equated to "Kansas" LOL! A movie called "The Farmhouse" was filmed right down the street from me in 1997. The director said that it was one of the only places on the east coast where he could make a film about Kansas and still be close to Manhattan. So, I'll go with that one instead.

When I mentioned Virginia, I was just trying to push it "further" down the map. It probably wasn't a good comparison at all. Most people think of NJ in general as a place of turnpikes, industry, etc. However, it is the "Garden State" for a reason. :D

I grew up surrounded by corn, cows, horses, rodeos, diesel trucks, and good 'ole boys! :D

50% GAE
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
...hmm, that's odd. Must be because I never heard of any of those "easy class" terms.

I've been in North Carolina long enough to say "might could", though I haven't picked up the accent. I make a distinction between a router in a computer network (it routes, which rhymes with loots) and a router in a woodworking shop (it routs, which rhymes with louts). Most people around here pronounce the computer router as if it made grooves. The CATS buses have three different voices and they pronounce "route" both ways.

My first language is English and my second is French; both are native. I speak several other languages. I picked up enough Portuguese during my two weeks in Portugal to *still* astonish a girl who was there with me; I'm planning to go to Brazil where the accent is different.

On the test on Angelfire, some of the explanations are pretty interesting.
Pajamas - SE US - I was in California at the time.
Route - Chicago to Tennessee - French influence.
Pillbug - Great Lakes and NE US - I learned the term in California.
They may have to do with where my parents learned English (both are from other countries).

Q14 (test 1) or Q11 (test 2)

- those type of shoes are called plimpsolls, after the plimpsoll line on a ship, if they are canvas, or locally deck shoes which isn't listed either, or if they are not canvas they are trainers, which the locals call sneakers, but it seems that they call some leather shoes sneakers as well, so I am never sure which they mean?
To me deck shoes are a kind of shoe with sinusoidal grooves cut into the sole.

Q20 (test 2)

- I've no idea what kind of insect rolls itself in a ball, and we don't usually call them bugs either
They're not insects. They are crustaceans and isopods. They're found under rocks and pieces of wood.

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

45% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern


What's the diff between "general american english" and "yankee"?

why would anyone cover the frong of their house in toilet paper or have a word for it?

I've never heard of any of those terms for an easy course, which I would call a "bird course."

I said I work out in "sneakers" rather than "tennis shoes," but I really work out in "running shoes." Sneakers lack support.

And what the heck are hte different pronunciations for Mary, marry, and merry?

And how'd I wind up talking like an American? Interestingly, the other people here whose numbers look closest to mine are the Europeans and Californians. and, you know, people from California sound a lot like Torontonians to me, it's true.

It would be interesting if someone grouped hte responses so we could see how patterns link up to geographical home bases....

Holy Smack, I just took the second test, and I got

97% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

:lol:

I promise that people not from Texas can understand me :lol:

If someone starts compiling, I was born in OK, lived in MO for a couple of years, and the rest of the time has been in extreme South Texas, then Eastern TX and now in Dallas. My grandma that I'm closest to is from Mississippi and still has her accent even though she hasn't lived there in 50 years.

45% General American English
30% Yankee
25% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

In reality I speak strange German school English. ;-)

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

(haven't answered all the question because I didn't know what the heck are some things like an easy class:ponder: )

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

Not terribly accurate for me since it takes only various American accents into account and my English is heavily influenced by the British English (I'm not a native speaker btw).

Wow!
75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

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

Born & raised in the midwest. Picked up "y'all" (for plural "you") after moving to Florida. It seems very natural in certain circumstances. A few true locals use "y'all" for the singular and "all y'all" for the plural case. :rolleyes:

I'd also like to know how merry, marry and Mary are pronounced differently?

I'd also like to see a similar "test" which asks how you pronounce certain words (what other words they rhyme with, like the "route" question). Those results could be interesting, too.

Thanks Meezer!

Depends on what you mean by South Jersey. If you mean Cherry Hill or Atlantic City (heck some folks even go as far as calling the Trenton area "South") and the like, then no. Ah, but isn't Trenton "Central Jersey"? :lol:

If you mean rural Salem County, NJ (where I am from)... I suppose it would be better equated to "Kansas" LOL! I can believe that... from what I've heard of Kansas :wink:

Most people think of NJ in general as a place of turnpikes, industry, etc. However, it is the "Garden State" for a reason. :D I know... but if you fly over NJ in a low plane, you can see how much of the land is farm land or "natural areas". No matter what you tell people, they are always surprised to see it!

And of course our comments would depend on what part of VA we were talking about too. :silly:

I just wanted to know what similarities you saw - thanks for the clarification!

(end hijack)

I'd also like to know how merry, marry and Mary are pronounced differently?

I don't know if this will help, because I am not using the correct symbols, et al, but here are my pronunciations for those three words:

merry like cherry
marry like carry
Mary like mare-y

Of course, if you pronounce the cherry, carry, and mare alike, then this was no help at all. :rolleyes:

What's the diff between "general american english" and "yankee"?

Yankee is, to me, New England. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, etc. General American English is, well, the whole country.

why would anyone cover the frong of their house in toilet paper or have a word for it?

It's something high school students do to each other - on the eve of homecoming, people go around TPing their friends homes. I never did it, and I don't understand it, but it's done.

It's also done on Halloween, as a prank, and other school occasions - your team makes it to State? You get TPed. Etc. Or, at least, that's what was done in the small Wisconsin town I grew up in.

I've lived in California my entire life. Problem areas for me:

Cruller -- I know what a cruller is. If it's a cruller, I call it one. I don't use it as a general term for anything else.

Where several roads meet in a circle -- WTH is that? I don't think we have those here. I have no word for it.

An easy class -- An easy class. I have no special word for it.

Something diagonal -- I use kitty corner, catty corner and diagonal fairly equally. I picked one at random for the sake of the quiz. I can't even remember which one.

Route -- Depends on usage. Are we en route somewhere? It's root. Are we mapping a route? It's rowt.

Where several roads meet in a circle -- WTH is that? I don't think we have those here. I have no word for it.

I don't know if I can explain it. In theory, if several roads meet, it takes less waiting time if the cars all enter and exit "the intersection" in a circle (all traveling one direction around the circle, of course). It is a little like the interstate loops that one can take to go around a city instead of through the city. I haven't seen a circle/rotary in the US outside of the NorthEast. I believe they are an older concept, and they do work very well if there is not too much traffic (and if the people know how to drive when in a rotary).

It is a little bit like the lane that opens up on a highway for the traffic to take an exit ramp that is also the same lane that the cars entering the hwy use... so the traffic has to "pass through" each other. Again, works well if there is not too much traffic. Many of the old hwys in the NE have the entrances and the exit ramps close to one another... the newer ones do not!

HTH a little!

Dvips

55% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Several of the options I just had to pic at random since it's not something I have a concept of or a specific preferance.

Cellar/basement I'll use both.
Covering houses in toiletpaper is not something that is known here, so I don't have a term for it.
None of the choices for an 'easy class' makes any sense to me.
I'll generally not specify sneaker or tennis shoe, but if I have to, I'd be just as likely to use one as the other.
The pronounciations of words are also interchangable.

This is because I don't have english as a native language, and as such pick up the language from whereever I hear it (different kinds of american, british, etc.)

35% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern

Then I took the Yankee or Dixie (http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html) test, and it told me I was "40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee."

> I'm with the people who'd never heard of a "cruller". I thought it was a boat! It's a pastry?
> I never say "y'all" or "youse". I say "you guys".
> I'd never seen a traffic circle before I went to Europe. Awful death-traps if you ask me! It's hard enough to merge on a curve, but then to have all those exits one after another! And if you miss your exit you have to spin around again... I suppose they're all right if you're used to them, but I'd be too afraid to drive on them!

Another accent sponge here :waving: I was talking to some Australian ladies once and all of a sudden I slipped into their accent! I don't know how, but it was embarassing 'cause they thought I was making fun of them.

Cool thread!

HoiLei.

60% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie

Dixie? :?

Fun!
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I notice for most people "midwestern" ranks last. Anyone born and bred there who got this as their highest score?

46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Well, this is an eye-opener (is that yankee or dixie, lol). Must be MIL's influence!:lol:

75% General American English15% Upper Midwestern10% Yankee0% Dixie0% Midwestern


Being a native of Arizona, I have been told that I have a very annoying accent. I obviously am not aware if it.

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie

*shrug* I guess about what I expected.

Very funny test for a foreigner. I seem to speak 55% general american, 30% yankee, 10% dixie and 5% midwestern. Odd. I spent a year in Iowa in the early eighties, so I would have expected more of a midwestern emphazise. No, I think us foreigners are mostly affected with the kind of films we see. And maybe this test doesn´t say it all...

Here we go:
I'm...
65% GAE
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Wow! I'm quite surprised. Where did I pick up the Upper Midwest? I grew up on either the Yank side or the Dixie side of the US.

Well I took the Yankee or Dixie test and I end up with

66% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!


Which is rather an interesting out come. I grew up in the Ottawa valley...but at the lower end where it mingles with the northern Appalachians of New York. Though I spent a great deal visiting family & friends in the south. Virginia, South & North Carolina, Florida etc.

Though like any Canadian I do the stereotype things too.

A'boot vs. About and the infamous Eh?

70% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie


Tea Lady

I haven't seen a circle/rotary in the US outside of the NorthEast. I believe they are an older concept, and they do work very well if there is not too much traffic (and if the people know how to drive when in a rotary).

Dvips

Hi there, we have "rotaries" in Washington, but they are called "roundabouts" they seem to be on a smaller scale than on the East Coast. There is usually just 1 lane of traffic rather that 2 or more. -Although we do have a few with multiple lanes. Here in Washington they generally seem to be aimed at slowing down traffic in residential neighborhoods.


My score on the first was:

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

On test #2 I got 48% - Barely Yankee

Which makes sense, my family is from Norway/Minnesota and Tennessee/Kentucky and I was raised in California. So my speech is pretty neutral in nature. Although I am surprised that I got no Dixie on the first test. I do have a few dixie-isms in my speech, but they are usually nouns like crawdad, rolypoly, etc. from my dad.

This was fun :)

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

Gee.. and I thought I spoke Canadian if I didn't speak the Queen's English. :silly:

65% General
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee

With a father from New York, mother from Minnesota, growing up in Texas, and going to school in the Midwest, it's not surprising the results. I'm told frequently that I have a very neutral accent (except when I say Texas or y'all! :wink: )

~Haley

55% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern.

My dad is from California, so that's where I get the Midwestern from, and my mom from West Virginia, so the 'y'all' is coverd by her. But I"m not sure about teh Dixie, because, everyone here (Penn.) says my family talks with a southern accent. Oh well.

65% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Really Neat stuff.

No great suprise here.

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20% Yankee</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
10% Upper Midwestern</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
5% Dixie</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
0% Midwestern</td></tr></table>
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Hmm,
50% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I was raised in Florida so that sounds about right. I learned to speak from listening to all the snowbirds. :grin:

I took both tests mentioned.
Test #1:
45% Dixie
45% General American English
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee

Test #2
100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? :rockerdud

Do you think I might live in the deep south? I find this highly amusing because I'm sitting here eating grits while I answer this quiz. lol.

100% English English

My first test result was:

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


and my second was 44% Yankee (Barely into the Yankee category)

50% General American English
25% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

(Aaaw,, too bad my Dixie side didn't come through stronger - since I was born and raised in Georgia.... It's my Mom's influence on my accent, since she's originally from Florida.) I'll have to brush up on my Southern speech. :inlove:

Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
30% Dixie
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Not bad for a coal miner's daughter.

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


Where did I pick up dixie? Guess thats not what they taught us in school :silly:

80% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

ETA: I'm out of it. I do pronounce "route" like "out". It changed my percentages. :smile:

Here's what I got:

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

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

And all this time I've prided myself on not sounding southern. Oh well!

ETA: If you check out this site, you can view a "You know you're from ... when ..."

Pretty funny!

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

...10% Yankee?
I'm a southern gal.

Test One
90% General American English
10% Yankee (wonder where that came from)
Test Two
44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Doesn't suprise me, my dad's family is from the south, I grew up in S. Fla., attended school in N. Fla, my mom's family are "yankees" and I now live in the upper midwest. I guess I have a healthy mix.

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

That's funny. :lol:

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
10% Midwestern
0% Dixie

60% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee

I have a really bad country accent but the guys seem to think its cute. I dont notice it until I hear a recording of myself on video.

35% yankee
30% general
25% dixie
5% midwestern
5% upper midwestern
I speak with a drawl but I have obviously moved around a bit

55% General American English20% Yankee15% Dixie10% Upper Midwestern

Your Linguistic Profile:

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

What I speak should be called "The Boring English." No offense to anyone else who speaks as I do. But all of the words in the quiz that I don't use sound so much more fun or pretty than the ones I do use.

Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English
35% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee

Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English
25% Dixie
20% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Since I've only been to the midwest three times in my whole life, and then for only a day or so each, this is not surprising. :)

There were some things I could not answer, no answer was right.

60% General American English30% Dixie10% Yankee

70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie

The farthest west I've ever gone is Ohio. :razz:

50% General American English
25% Dixie
25% Yankee

I grew up in TX, but notice that I say lots of things with a definite Yankee twist.

55% General American English

40% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

I'm shocked that it wasn't 100% Dixie!:)

This shouldn't surprise me, given how many times my family has moved around. The 5% Upper Midwestern probably comes from the year I spent in Kansas in second grade. None of us has ever lived anywhere close to the Northern Atlantic coast, though, so where'd that Yankee come from?

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English
25% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern

The Yankee influence is either the media, or the fact that Kentucky is right on the border of the Mason-Dixon line. Some people even wonder if Kentucky is truly a Southern state, but I'll run buckshot through anybody who says it isn't.
:D
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Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Yankee

SOUTHERN TILL I CROAK!

I'm not a bit surprised by my results. Totally fits (I'm Michigan born & bred).

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

50% Gen American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie

and all with a Noo Yawk accent:silly:

40% General
40% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Uppper Midwestern

In fact I'm German and had some real difficulties to answer the question ...

Why should I ever cover the surface in front of my house with toilet paper? Can someone pleease let me know what that means?

And that easy class question - I don't calll it anything of the provided answers. OK - at least now i know about my Yankee-Percentage ;-)

Bye

Jorunn

I had trouble with those too. You wouldn't cover your OWN house with toilet paper. Someone else would do it, or you'd do it for someone else, as a prank. More annoying than harmful, but definitely annoying.

As for the easy class, my option wasn't there. I just picked the one I liked best. Actually, I'd have called it a bunny class.

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Interesting, I've lived all my life in Oklahoma.

65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee

I'm pretty sure that toilet-papering the front of a house is usually done as a Halloween prank.

Thanks Jim, thanks, Michelle,

I always appreciate learning something new.

Jorunn

70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Oooh, I match Kumi and Cookiemonster. MMM, cooooookiiieeees.

Ok before everyone looks at the results please remember I'm from Texas and our accent is awful.

60% General American English
35% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee

Thanks! This was fun!!!

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English25% Yankee20% Dixie5% Upper Midwestern0% Midwestern

I have lived in Texas most of my life and people still ask me if I am from the North. I guess my Texas accent needs working on so I can pass as a native. “Bye now”

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


hmmm...I was born and raised in the midwest...but I have 0% midwest? That is a bit odd to me.

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Here are my results :smile:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/aloesoft/LHC/lanuage.jpg

60% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern


this is odd, considering I'm Canadian. :lol:
My mom is 100% Yankee though, born in Moscow, Idaho, so no doubt I have a mutt accent.

She pronounces words like "lawyer" and "roof" extremely funny. :lol: Lawyer comes out roughly "liar" (how ironic!) and roof which I pronounce Rewf, comes out RUFF!!!

:lol:

65% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie

It's all a lie....I'm Canadian eh!
8)

40% Yankee
35% General American English
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

And I'm an Aussie! :razz:

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern



Wow, dunno how that 15% yankee got in there but,,, oh well..lol

Ok before everyone looks at the results please remember I'm from Texas and our accent is awful.

60% General American English
35% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee


HEY you have a great accent.. :) BE PROUD! :D
I'm from Kentucky.. So I suppose I have an accent too .. YAY!!

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English 20% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee

This is called 'Educated Hillbilly' :grin:

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

And on the other one:
41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I need a 'do you speak Minnesotan' category. We have our own lingo, dontcha know.

http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/

I speak 60% general and 25 % yankee. Suprised the heck out of me lol.

50% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I'm from Vermont, so the Yankee makes sense. Not sure where the upper midwestern and dixie come from!

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40% Yankee</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
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Although it's obviously inaccurate for an English rose like me.

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40% General American English</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
40% Yankee</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
15% Dixie</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">
5% Midwestern</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">
0% Upper Midwestern</td></tr></table>

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Although it's obviously inaccurate for an English rose like me.
Erm, whoops :oops:.
As I'm not allowed to edit my posts yet I'll have to double post. I got:
40% General American English
40% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie

Considering I am a Canadian francophone...

I have no idea what this means, but here goes:

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee

Now that I know this about myself, what do I DO with it? ;) I love blogthings tests!

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% Yankee
35% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


Pretty sure I actually speak 100% NZ English :lol:

85% General
10% upper midwestern
5% midwestern

innerestin'!

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Mid Western

Now that does surprise me!!

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
30% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
ok so very confused, some of the options i was like what does that mean or a term i would never use. guess english english wasnt on it lol.

70% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

Conventional; also referred to as Standard English.

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern