Tuesday, April 19, 2005

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Answer these 20 questions and have your speech habits analyzed.

For reference, here are my results:
General American English: 65%
Dixie: 15%
Upper Midwestern: 15%
Yankee: 5%
Midwestern: 0%

Obviously such an analysis is extremely limited, if only because of the few questions. Still, it's fun to find out.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

General American English - 45%
Yankee - 40%
Dixie - 15%
Midwestern/Upper Midwestern - 0%

-Spencer

Anonymous said...

And, evidently, I belong in New Zealand.

-Above

Darren said...

40% Yankee, huh Spencer? Aren't most of those Yankee states liberal?

It figures :-)

Anonymous said...

75% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

Interesting, just general English, i thought i was special

Darren said...

So no one has this Midwestern style. I wonder what that is, anyway.

Anonymous said...

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
My dad's family is from Illinois and the things i notice most are the pronunciations of "a" as in Chicago, pop replaces soda, and they pronounce Oregon differently
Greg