What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

This post was written by Kevin Holtsberry on May 10, 2005
Posted Under: Books: News

Amazing how accurate this is:

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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I turned up 65% General, 25% Dixie, and 5% Yankee. I had no answer for question 10, which was “What do you call an easy class?” I might call it an easy class, but not a crip course, gut, or blow off. Those terms don’t make sense to me.

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Written By Phil on May 10th, 2005 @ 1:10 pm

:-) I think that’s the first genuinely interesting blogthing quiz I’ve come across.

Came out completely backwards for me, though (at least, based on what I wouldn’t expected)–I would have figured a strong bias for midwestern with a little Dixie, and maybe 10% some Yankee thrown in because, Yes, I am the one person in all of Nebraska who says, “Soda” instead of “Pop.” As it is, I came back 70% general, 10% each on upper midwest, Yank, and Dixie, and zero midwestern.

I’m not a very good Nebraskan, apparently.

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Written By Scott Cunning on May 12th, 2005 @ 7:17 am

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