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.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:22 PM

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

    -Spencer

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  2. Anonymous4:25 PM

    And, evidently, I belong in New Zealand.

    -Above

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  3. Darren5:17 PM

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

    It figures :-)

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  4. Anonymous9:19 PM

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

    Interesting, just general English, i thought i was special

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  5. Darren9:52 PM

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

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  6. Anonymous3:56 PM

    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

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