What Kind Of American English Do You Speak?

*waves* born and raised cheesehead...everyone needs to use Bubbler more often as far as I'm concerned...heheh

Life is just better that way....

60% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

okkkaaaayyyy..... hummm.....

says i'm 60% general american
15% yankee
10% upper mid west
5% dixie
5% midwestern



so the missing 5% proves that i'm canadian, eh???? they don't give all the proper choices either, do they?

65% General American English

20% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern


I can't help the "y'all" thing. I was in the Army for 6 years and around southerners the whole time. I don't have the twang that I picked any more, but some things just stuck!

When I moved to Georgia, my best friend would make fun of the way I said "dog" because it sounded Northern. Even living in Los Angeles for 7 years didn't take away the accent that I picked up every summer when I stayed for nearly 3 months in Rhode Island. But I picked up the Southern drawl little by little and that last time I visited RI, they made fun of my accent. I really didn't think I had that much of one, but I apparently do - compared to them, anyway.

[CENTER][/CENTER]General American english 55%
Dixie 15%
Yankee 15%
Midwestern 5%
Upper midwestern 5%

Odd results because I'm from Texas and my relatives are from Tennesse and Arkansas. But I also put alot of British slang in my speech as well sometimes.

Football: Americans call it soccer
the pitch: the field we play on
roundabout the road that goes in a circle
wellies: rubber boots
trolley: cart


I pick up the accents of the people I'm around most. At festivals I unconsciously have an Irish lilt to my words. My ancestors are mostly Irish descent and still use strange phrases. My mother will talk at you later on the phone and my great-grandmother trades at Walmart. Her sister had yeller flowers in that there field.


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Heather

That's odd . . . I was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised within 10 miles of there, and I never heard it called anything BUT a bubbler until I moved away from New England.

I speak the real English.

45% Yankee

30% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

That sounds about right!!!!!! I guess that proves that I am a typical New Englander!!!!!!!

By the way, I totally get BUBBLER and KITTY CORNER!!!!!! LMAO!!!@!!!


MARTI

Totally with you on the "kitty corner" bit. My mom used to say "bubbler" all the time but that never caught on with me. Interestingly, I've read "catty-cornered" in one of Stephen King's books and that pretty much threw me as to where the "kitty corner" came from. Unless Maine isn't really considered New England. Go figure.

***Your Linguistic Profile:***
80% Canadian English Eh!

20% Canadian Newfie, Lord tunderin Jezzus we spell CANADA C, eh, N, eh, D, eh

0% General American English

0% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Yankee

Lord tunderin Jezzus we spell CANADA C, eh, N, eh, D, eh

60% General American English

15% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

I was born in Southern Illinois, lived in South Carolina and Arizona.

60% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

65% General American English

20% Upper Midwestern

10% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Yankee

You Speak General American English!



65% General American English

20% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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