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What Kind of American English do you speak?
- Thread starter Tonichelle
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Here's mine:
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Your Linguistic Profile:
40% Dixie
30% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
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Your Linguistic Profile:
40% Dixie
30% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
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Here's mine:
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Yana
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Yana
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My Linguistic Profile:
45% Yankee
40% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
I was raised in Boston. If I'm not actually playing "tennis," then I think calling sneakers "tennis shoes" is just plain ridiculous!
45% Yankee
40% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
I was raised in Boston. If I'm not actually playing "tennis," then I think calling sneakers "tennis shoes" is just plain ridiculous!
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45% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
I live outside of Bahstun....
35% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
I live outside of Bahstun....
Here's mine:
60% General American English
25% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
I guess Michigan is Upper Midwestern? I have no idea what that one word even is, "croller" or however it was spelled. Anyone know what that is? It's definitely "pop" and "grocery cart" and "drinking fountain" and "tennis shoes". I think that cellars and basements are two different things.
60% General American English
25% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
I guess Michigan is Upper Midwestern? I have no idea what that one word even is, "croller" or however it was spelled. Anyone know what that is? It's definitely "pop" and "grocery cart" and "drinking fountain" and "tennis shoes". I think that cellars and basements are two different things.
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This was mine:
80% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I noticed they don't have a West Coast or Southern California English! LOL! They could ask "Do you ever say 'dude'?" or "Do you say 'like' a lot?" or "Do you speak slowly?"
80% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I noticed they don't have a West Coast or Southern California English! LOL! They could ask "Do you ever say 'dude'?" or "Do you say 'like' a lot?" or "Do you speak slowly?"
Lucy, a cruller is basicallly a glazed or sugared donut. Around here, it means a fried cake made of two twisted pieces of dough. Though some people will call a ring-type donut a cruller (to me, a round donut is a donut). Hey, do you think we could get Krispy Kreme to twist some of their dough and bring the word "cruller" back into use? 
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I am seriously miffed here. Everyone else has either General American English or Yankee or whatever first and I've got Dixie.
Ok, sorry, I should be very proud of my southerness since living in Nebraska would surely turn me into some kinda midwestern thingamajig (no offense to Dee whatsoever).
BTW, Dee, I got an email from COI that they will be arranging to be at the QWest center on their tour next year which will be a nice break from SOI, don't ya think?
Actually I complained to them.
Ok, sorry, I should be very proud of my southerness since living in Nebraska would surely turn me into some kinda midwestern thingamajig (no offense to Dee whatsoever).
BTW, Dee, I got an email from COI that they will be arranging to be at the QWest center on their tour next year which will be a nice break from SOI, don't ya think?
Actually I complained to them. 40% General American English
40% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I grew up in NYC (Manhattan), lived in Brooklyn for several years, then moved to central NJ. I have no idea where the 40% Yankee and 20% Dixie come from.
I have issues with some of those questions, though.
1. The level of a building that is underground is called the:
Cellar
Basement
To me, a cellar is a basement with a dirt floor, in other words, an unfinished lower level. A basement has a paved floor.
2. What do you call the night before Halloween?
Nothing
Devil's night
Mischeif night
Where I grew up in NYC, nothing. I used to call it mischief night when I lived in a suburban neighborhood where kids played pranks. Since that's not a common practice where I live now, I'm back to nothing.
4. The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called
Toilet papering
Rolling
TP'ing...
I never heard of any of these terms and 'Nothing' was not a choice.
6. You drink from:
A water fountain
A drinking fountain
I've always called it just "fountain".
8. Do you use the word cruller?
No
Yes
Not often lately. When I lived in NYC, there were many varieties of baked goods and a cruller was just one of many.
10. What do you call an easy class?
A crip course
A gut
A blow off
I've never heard of any of these terms and 'other' was not a choice. I just called an easy class a 'sure A'.
12. What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
Kitty corner
Diagonal
Catty corner
"Catercorner" was not a choice. That's what I call it.
18. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
Yes
No
A very vague question, because "ant" can be pronounced more than one way. In NYC, where 'a' sounds most often like 'ay', some people say 'awnt' for aunt and 'aynt' for ant, or sometimes BOTH are 'aynt'. I tend to pronounce both as 'aent' (a as in 'grass').
19. "Route" rhymes with...
Boot
Out
When "Route" is a verb (e.g., 'the cop routed the traffic through a detour') I use the OUT sound. For a verb (Route 95), it's the BOOT sound.
40% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I grew up in NYC (Manhattan), lived in Brooklyn for several years, then moved to central NJ. I have no idea where the 40% Yankee and 20% Dixie come from.
I have issues with some of those questions, though.
1. The level of a building that is underground is called the:
Cellar
Basement
To me, a cellar is a basement with a dirt floor, in other words, an unfinished lower level. A basement has a paved floor.
2. What do you call the night before Halloween?
Nothing
Devil's night
Mischeif night
Where I grew up in NYC, nothing. I used to call it mischief night when I lived in a suburban neighborhood where kids played pranks. Since that's not a common practice where I live now, I'm back to nothing.
4. The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called
Toilet papering
Rolling
TP'ing...
I never heard of any of these terms and 'Nothing' was not a choice.
6. You drink from:
A water fountain
A drinking fountain
I've always called it just "fountain".
8. Do you use the word cruller?
No
Yes
Not often lately. When I lived in NYC, there were many varieties of baked goods and a cruller was just one of many.
10. What do you call an easy class?
A crip course
A gut
A blow off
I've never heard of any of these terms and 'other' was not a choice. I just called an easy class a 'sure A'.
12. What do you call something that is diagonal from you?
Kitty corner
Diagonal
Catty corner
"Catercorner" was not a choice. That's what I call it.
18. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?
Yes
No
A very vague question, because "ant" can be pronounced more than one way. In NYC, where 'a' sounds most often like 'ay', some people say 'awnt' for aunt and 'aynt' for ant, or sometimes BOTH are 'aynt'. I tend to pronounce both as 'aent' (a as in 'grass').
19. "Route" rhymes with...
Boot
Out
When "Route" is a verb (e.g., 'the cop routed the traffic through a detour') I use the OUT sound. For a verb (Route 95), it's the BOOT sound.
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Your Linguistic Profile:
50% Yankee
35% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
That was interesting! What's the difference between Yankee and General American English?
Edited to add: My closest profile is Nicole's. And I'm from New England too. Nice to see that there is apparently some connection. I never realized Yankee was considered New England area.
Of course it would have tipped over even more than 50% if the water/drinking fountain question contained a choice for "bubbler" - which is what I call a water/drinking fountain.
50% Yankee
35% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
That was interesting! What's the difference between Yankee and General American English?
Edited to add: My closest profile is Nicole's. And I'm from New England too. Nice to see that there is apparently some connection. I never realized Yankee was considered New England area.
Of course it would have tipped over even more than 50% if the water/drinking fountain question contained a choice for "bubbler" - which is what I call a water/drinking fountain.
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