April 18, 2005

Soda, not pop

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English
35% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Posted by rv at April 18, 2005 12:24 PM to word
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Here's my result, let's hope its readable:

Your Linguistic Profile:

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

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?


Posted by: Donna at April 18, 2005 03:38 PM


Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern


What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Posted by: nbh at April 18, 2005 05:01 PM

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

Posted by: cf at April 18, 2005 08:08 PM

45% Yankee
35% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Must be the Y'alls.

Posted by: Bob at April 19, 2005 01:33 AM

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% Yankee
40% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Posted by: Frodo at April 19, 2005 08:43 AM

60% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Question 19 throws me, I pronounce "Route" differently depending on how it is used.
i.e the quickest route (out) is to take route (boot) 33.

Posted by: jay at April 19, 2005 11:22 AM

I also pronounce "route" differently. I get my kicks on Route (root) 66, and the internet routes (rowts) around damage. However, I'm not sure that I'm consistent about root/rowt when it comes to roads. And the phrase "paper route" sounds right to me either way.

Similarly, there was one question along the lines of "what do you call a dead-easy class?" where I wouldn't have used any of the 3 answers. I picked the one that sounded the least wrong to my ears, but I would never describe a class that way.

Posted by: rv at April 19, 2005 05:31 PM

Interesting. That was the same question that tripped me up too. None of the choices were ones I would use.

Posted by: cf at April 21, 2005 07:39 AM

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

What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Posted by: z at April 23, 2005 02:37 PM

Sorry, that looks like crap... I see I'm the only one so far that has influences from all catagories. Gotta get Dawn to try this too.

Posted by: z at April 23, 2005 02:40 PM

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern


Posted by: D at April 23, 2005 02:49 PM

Z, no problem— just reformatted your survey results so that they look fine now.

Posted by: rv at April 23, 2005 06:54 PM