What Kind Of American English Do You Speak??

[N Gauger]

I got this from another board, I belong to

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

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

 

[MilesWestern]

I'm...

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

Gee, that was fun! got any more of them?

 

[eightyeightfan1]

The worst thing I said when I was stationed in Germany.......
Where did you learn to speak American?
100% All American Yankee...Pawk dah caw in da Hawvawrd yawd.

 

[rksstl]

Born and raised in the midwest, interesting,maybe i did learn something in english class

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

 

[Gary Pfeil]

Interesting, 45, 20, 20 total 85. BTW, no correct answer for the night before Halloween, cabbage night, of course.

 

[doctorwayne]

I'm 50, 15, 15, 5, 5, with no answer for questions 10 (an easy class is just an easy class) and 14 (I'm a model railroader. What's a workout?). Interesting results for a hoser, eh?

Wayne

 

[zedob]

50 Gerneral
25 Yankee
25 Dixie.
and nothing else. Pretty much wraps up where I've lived.

 

[cidchase]

40% Dixie
30% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Which would embarrass my folks to no end, rest their souls. I was raised in New England.
I guess I'm gonna hafta clean up my act (gonna hafta???)

 

[Pete]

100% Canadian English

 

[Pete]

But according to this test:
60% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

 

[shaygetz]

Born and raised in the midwest, interesting,maybe i did learn something in english class

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

Same as you, Rich...and I was born and raised in Baltimore, whodathunkit?

 

[Will_annand]

Hmm, The Canadian got:

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

 

[MasonJar]

Canajun, eh?

As in aboot, Tronna (the capital of Ontario), and The Horton's, eh?

Andrew

 

[Taylor]

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

There is a guy that I work with from Michigan. I always give him a hard time for his "English" and he does the same to me. I drink a soda or a coke....he drinks a 'pop'. I enjoy eating a 'lollipop' on occasion, while enjoys a 'sucker' He has no accent whatsoever (that I can tell anyway) but he'll throw in these words on occasion that completely throw me off guard. We frequently give each a hard time...and his favorite with me is that I drink water from a 'wooder fountain' and when in the mood, I will 'warsh' my car But I remember the old stories from 'Dad' talking about him swimming in the 'crick' as a kid.

 

[webmaster]

I don't know......:cry:

Were good enough to give you a language & you go & ruin it... sign1 sign1

 

[Raistlin]

Strange no category for Canadian English or the Queen's English...

How naff, eh?

 

[Catt]

I couldn't take the test there were not enough choices.But here is my personal breakdown of what I speak.By the way I use Y'all (pronounced Yawl ) quite often and I am a Mid westerner.

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

 

[sumpter250]

Eastern Long Island, overlayed with New England, overlayed with "Chicago midwest", and traces of just about everywhere else, picked up during the twentyone years I spent in military service.
100% mongrel, North, East, South, West, American "murder" of the english language.

Still, come to think of it, you can't get theah, from heah......or back again

 

[RailRon]

Now lookitthat: The test sez:

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

Since my native language is (Swiss-)German, I should have learned 100 % General English English - in school.

But as it looks, something's gone awfully wrong. Ok, the 20% Dixie I blame to my old friend Elvis, who I copied as a youngster when I played and sang in a Rock 'n Roll band, but the rest...

Hey, could it be that you guys at the Gauge spoilt my beautiful ops: school English?

Well, I don't care at all, as long as anybody of you still understands me...

Ron

 

[jim currie]

what no category for western if there were I would be 80% western 20% GAE.