What kind of American English Do You Speak

[tesla]

Interesting little quiz:

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

50%/35/10/5/0 for me. I don't consider the part of New York where I grew up to be "Yankee" country in the same way as New England and I'm mildly surprised that more of this area hasn't rubbed off on me, but what the heck. The survey is too brief and without enough alternate choices to be meaningful. (They didn't even ask if it was a "gnu" or a "wildebeest", or if you could "borrow me" a dollar.)

And yes, it's "soda". "Pop" is what the weasel goes.

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

I am an anomaly. I got 70% General American, 20% Yankee, and 10% Upper Midwestern. 0 and 0 for Dixie and Midwest. The only one that would be possibly different was the question about the pronounciation of route. I say it both ways but that wasn't an option.

Mine sorta reflects where I've lived

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/)

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

There were a number of questions where I use both/all pronunciations, depending upon how I feel.

[mrsmodew.livejournal.com]

What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/)

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

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[barondave.livejournal.com]

None of us Upper Midwesterners scored more than 10% as Upper Midwestern and we have a combined 0% for Midwestern. I don't think I'll count this test as a datapoint.