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What Kind of American English do you speak?

swannanoa54

On the Ice
Joined
Aug 19, 2003
Here's mine:

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Quote:
Your Linguistic Profile:

40% Dixie
30% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

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STL_Blues_fan

Final Flight
Joined
Jan 24, 2004
Here's mine:


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


Yana
 

iluvtodd

Record Breaker
Joined
Mar 5, 2004
Country
United-States
Fun poll! Here's mine:

45% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I've lived in Philly all my life! :rofl:
 
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RealtorGal

Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
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!
 

Figureskates

On the Ice
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
45% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I live outside of Bahstun....
 

Lynn226

On the Ice
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I've noticed that my vocabulary has changed quite a bit since I moved from Eastern KY.
 

brad640

On the Ice
Joined
Dec 8, 2004
Mine surprised me...

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

Lucy25

Final Flight
Joined
Jul 31, 2003
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.
 

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Arm Chair Skate Fan
Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
I have no clue why mine came out this way:

75 % Gen. Am. English
15% Upper Mid Western
10% Dixie
0% Mid West
0% Yankee...............42
 

purplecat

Final Flight
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
Country
United-States
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?" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
 

mpal2

Final Flight
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
85% General American English
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Upper Midwestern
 

JOHIO2

Medalist
Joined
Jul 29, 2003
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? :rofl:
 

Dee4707

Ice Is Slippery - Alexie Yagudin
Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 28, 2003
Country
United-States
Here is my profile:

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

Dee
 

swannanoa54

On the Ice
Joined
Aug 19, 2003
I am seriously miffed here. Everyone else has either General American English or Yankee or whatever first and I've got Dixie. :rofl:

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? :rock: Actually I complained to them. :rofl:
 

chuckm

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 31, 2003
Country
United-States
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.
 
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Skate Sandee

On the Ice
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
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. :p
 
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hongligl

Final Flight
Joined
Mar 18, 2004
My Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Considering I've never been to the states, I thought that mine would be close to 100% GAE :rofl:
 

Piel

On Edge
Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
70% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
 
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