What Kind Of American English Do You Speak??

[b28_82]

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

That pretty much sums up where i'm originally from. Even though I've been in the south for over 5 years now, this pretty much shows that I've stuck to my roots(rhymes close to stew), and even though I've gotten used to saying "soda" down here I welcome the word "pop"

 

[who_dat73]

Hmm kinda intresting

55% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
20% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

 

[Relic]

I can see where the upper Canadians cast their lot. Spell colour

 

[Will_annand]

Canajun, eh?

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

Andrew

Hey now, Andy, don't you cut up Tim Horton, I met him once. He was a great hockey player, on the last winning team Tronna had. Until he tried to move that bridge with his car.

 

[trainworm]

65% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

hmmm...and i live in the midwest. but i spent most of my life in California and Texas.

 

[60103]

I got 50-30-5-5-0 with a couple of no answers, and a few where I needed to say "any of them".
I speak southern Ontario, with a few archaisms from my father (the last man in Ontario that pronounces "clerk" as "clark"), a bit of Scottish from my mother (what do you call the grating over a sewer? a siver or seiver?) and a touvh of Ottawa Valley.

Somewhere I have a passage that customs agents used to use to separate the Canadians from the Americans.

 

[Pitchwife]

80% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Not only am I the most "general" American, I've got 5% of me missing.

 

[Pitchwife]

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

How naff, eh?

Do you know the Queen's English? Well, of course she is. sign1 sign1

 

[brakie]

Actually I speak a lot of Dixie.But,that there test says:
30% Yankee
25% Dixie
20% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Midwestern

 

[wortchillergoal]

I found it strange that there was no "Redneck" English.

I was 65 general, 35 Yankee, 5 upper midwest. I must say though that I had to use second and thrid choices for some of the questions as my normal deployment of wording was not available as an answer.

 

[MasonJar]

Hey now, Andy, don't you cut up Tim Horton, I met him once. He was a great hockey player, on the last winning team Tronna had. Until he tried to move that bridge with his car.

Hey,

Nothing against ol' Tim... My wife suggested on the weekend that she might try the new coffe shop opening in town, instead of The Horton's...

"Traitor!!", I yelled. "And you call yourself Canajun?!"



Andrew

 

[babydot94513]

Basically 70% General American English - as long as it lasts.

 

[oldtanker]

55% General American
25% Yankee
10%Dixie
5% Midwestren
5%Upper Midwestren

Not bad considering that I was raised in NJ, moved to MN as a teen, spent 20 years in the Army serving in Ks 3 times, Tx once, Ky once, Korea once, Germany 3 times with a few "side trips" to strange and exocit places.

 

[spitfire]

100% Canadian English

Me too! sign1

Val

 

[91rioja]

55% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I was born and raised in Roanoke, VA., and then moved to Greensboro, NC. The percentages work out just about right for time spent in VA (55%) and time spent in NC (40%). Don't know where the Yankee came from. . .

 

[ausien]

Personaly, I dont speak any kind of american english, I speak my own butcherd australian called ....ocka....but I think certain members of the gauge are trying to convert me to speaking/ frazing, some kind off american broage....sign1 sign1 sign1

 

[Will_annand]

Steve, buddy, don't let the YANKS sway you to the "dark side"...
Stick with Aussie, forget Yank-speak. announce1
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[Dorcas]

I am also an Australian but I steer clear away from "Ocka" . Give me 4 to 6 weeks traveling around the good old U.S.A. and I will come with an accent, ask my family, it happened 28 years ago. I think that in the main you Americans pronounce your words a little more accurately than the English way.
Tom.S

 

[webmaster]

I think that in the main you Americans pronounce your words a little more accurately than the English way.
Tom.S

sign1 I can't really see that seeing as they wear their pants on the outside! sign1

 

[wortchillergoal]

I played around with that test using different answers. I believe that the test is poorly constructed or is slanted by design.