What type of American English do you speak?

[Mara 29]

I know it's mainly a blog thing...but...so? :-p

Your linguistic profile...

My Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

Hmmm.....

[Andy 57]

My Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

lol, I don't even know what most of them are. lol

[Ayingel 24]

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

25% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

and Beeurd...

General American English=mid east coast, west coast, mountains...

Yankee=Massachussetts and higher

Dixie=Southern States

Midwestern=All states below Great Lakes

Upper Midwestern=Great Lake States, North Dakota and South Dakota

[GI_Admiral 2]

"11. If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it:

The Devil is Beating His Wife"

70% General American English

15% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

Haha only 5 upper midwestern :(

Edited April 30, 2005 by GI_Admiral

[Mara 29]

I'm only 10%, lol.

Apparently they know I belong in Wyoming.

[Tsl 7]

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English

10% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

lol, but I live in the midwest.... I thought midwestern English was considered to be "proper". What's the deal?

[GI_Admiral 2]

Apparently we arent true midwesterners :p

[Tsl 7]

lol, too bad. I was only born here and lived here all my life, y'know :p

[MH 0]

60% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

The bottom is where I live. Odd.

Edited May 1, 2005 by The Mandalorian Hunter

[Tsl 7]

I don't think the quiz's creator had a real good grip on American dialects, lol

[Sentrosi 1]

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

bad thing i live in minnesota

and can have a horrible accent... either country or minnesotan it sucks

but i think they missed a couple of things in it as well... i mean i call somethings completely different... like the rain on a warm day is warm rain... (fun for taking showers out side ) and an easy course is either a cake walk or a bird course and my personal favorite... the day before halloween... all hallows eve...

[SoftballJedi 0]

75% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

I speak only 10% Yankee. Interesting.

[Andy 57]

hey, how about me, i didn't even know half the stuff on there

an easy course to me would be a doss.

a cellar is in a house, but big buildings have basements.

and a warm day with rain is IMPOSSIBLE! Nah, j/k, but it doesn't have any particular name. lol

[Princess 35]

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

25% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Yankee

[Mara 29]

Well, technically "proper" is S.E.E.

[Ana 15]

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

I think that the person who wrote this has a definite bias towards "General American English".

Oh, and w00t for 10% dixie. I defy the laws of geography.

[Ender 8]

60% General American English

35% Yankee

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

Top's where I was born... I also lived in Connecticut so that works... and I hate the midwest!

[GI_Admiral 2]

Wouldn't General American English encompass all of the smaller american english's? So technically it should be 100%

[Mara 29]

*shrugs*

Apparently General English is on the west coast?

[GI_Admiral 2]

Ah if that's the case, I think Im going to the west coast...maybe to California :D

[Mara 29]

Well, also the east coast and mountain regions.

[GI_Admiral 2]

Wouldn't that just be all of US :p

[Mara 29]

Meh.

[Ayingel 24]

*shrugs*

Apparently General English is on the west coast?

didn't i define this on the first page for beeurd?

[GI_Admiral 2]

Pffft who reads through all that :p