What Kind Of American English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

oeps you scared me .........I made the test 😊

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

( I passed on one question I really had never heard about that one )

60% General American English
30% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

65% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

A few, like sack/bag and water/drinking fountain, I use interchangeably

65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

[font=courier]55% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern[/font]

Same as Starkist, actually. ... More or less. I don't have a single, unique vocabulary or method to speaking. I just say whatever I have to in order to be understood.
Jolly.

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
45% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

or if i change it to cellar instead of basement as i say it either way.

Your Linguistic Profile:
50% Yankee
40% General American English
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I got:
60% General American English
30% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I guess thats good?

Yeah, there's a couple I use depending on the day too, but I never say *cellar* for example.

elise wrote:Oops you scared me .........I made the test 😊

( I passed on one question I really had never heard about that one )

Which was it?

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I pronounce "route" both ways.

Based on pronunciation alone, I'd say:
50% General American English
45% Yankee
0% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

carrot red wrote:

Well, now I'm on a roll, you can't know what to expect. ; )

Which was it?

what I call an easy class,
I never heard that expression :shrug:

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

that "easy class" question really sucked. I don't call it any of those

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

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I only got the dixie because my mom's side is from the mid-south area (i think)... my gramma says "warsh"... ;p

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

The Yankee is probably the 10 years I've lived in Pennsylvania. The General would be from living in Europe probably and speaking English with British, Canadians and other Americans who lived near me.

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% Yankee
40% General American English
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

biggiy05 wrote:80% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

This is almost exactly what I got, but switch Midwestern with Uppermidwestern. Kind of ironic, because I descend from people who originally settled in the midwest when they immigrated here.

I think my results fit. Idaho, and in particular the area I'm from, has not been populated by an isolated people long enough for any sort of signifigant linguistic pattern to form. Also, I live in Ada County, which has seen a huge influx of people from the west coast over the past decade, so language patterns would be fairly general in this place amongst speakers of American english.

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

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

And 5% Homestar Runner. Great jorb!

Some questions had no correct answers for me..... but..

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

Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
40% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

What is "Dixie".. I tend to think of Cameron Diaz when you mention dixie...

I think of the song.

Dictionary

Dixie:

A region of the southern and eastern United States, usually comprising the states that joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. The term was popularized in the minstrel song �Dixie's Land,� written by Daniel D. Emmett (1815�1904) in 1859.

The 11 southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.

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

Impressive, considering that I don't speak the American English Dialect. My accent is very, very English. In a sort of Oxford style I'd have to say. Which means most Es become As. E.g, Cherwell becomes "Charwll" And yes, you miss out the second E in that. Wot wot.

I really never thought about it.. all I know is I speak um.. normal.. not ghetto or something like that...

Carcer wrote:Impressive, considering that I don't speak the American English Dialect. My accent is very, very English. In a sort of Oxford style I'd have to say. Which means most Es become As. E.g, Cherwell becomes "Charwll" And yes, you miss out the second E in that. Wot wot.

I really never thought about it.. all I know is I speak um.. normal.. not ghetto or something like that...