What Kind Of American English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I had to randomly pick a couple of those. I've taken a better test for this before. It had a few more specific dialects.

40% General American English
30% Yankee
20% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Very, peculiar.

50% General American English
45% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

If you actually heard me speak you'd probably question that 0% Dixie. I use a lot of phrases and terms that I grew up with in Connecticut, but thirteen years in North Carolina has produced a southern drawl that I can't seem to escape, even if ah do mah best ta avoid usin' actual southern expressions like "Y'all."

They teased me when i came to Australia..

Theyre like say "car" again say "water" and "arts"...

But it did draw in a few chics who thought it was cute! 😉

Theres always an upside...

p.s. Thanks carrot red for the explanation

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

I have a similiar affliction like sb's, where i will randomly slip into a southern tone of voice and never even notice it.

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

...does anyone speak Midwestern at all?

I am very guilty of pronouncing things like Americans, which irritates my mother no end! I also have a funny story about this. When you see something in bold quotes, say it out loud as typed to get it.

My (English) family was holidaying in Florida when our rented car broke down. My dad called up the company to explain what had happened, but I only really started listening when the guy on the other end clearly had a problem understanding what my dad was saying. My dad was trying to tell him "The state-us of the car", but the guy was having problems with the word, so my dad spelt it out. S-T-A-T-U-S. The guy on the other end suddenly went "Oh! Stat-us!". Oh, the hilarity.

I don't have an accent.. I mean.. if I do, it could only be some sorta "lazy" accent.. slurring together words accidently or something.. I really don't think I speak dixie or anything of that.. I think vowels apparently are the real cause of accents, isn't that where words are pronounced differently?

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

Interesting test..