Y'all come back now, ya hear?
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 55% General American English |
| 35% Yankee |
| 10% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
10% Dixie? I have no Dixie in me, bud.
(cue the "but would you like to?" responses)
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Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 55% General American English |
| 35% Yankee |
| 10% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
10% Dixie? I have no Dixie in me, bud.
(cue the "but would you like to?" responses)
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Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
10% Midwestern
0% Dixie
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Comments
Are you sure you don't have a little angel/clone in you?
Posted by: Josh | April 18, 2005 11:29 AM
you beat me to the punchline, dammit. ah well.
I wish I was in Dixie. Hooray, hooray
Posted by: Dave in Texas | April 18, 2005 11:30 AM
We are exact "opposites". If we ever spoke face to face we'd need an interpreter!
Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English
35% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
Posted by: Slartibartfast | April 18, 2005 11:43 AM
60% General American English
40% Dixie
Hmph. I blame this on my formative years being spent in the wilds of Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Sekimori | April 18, 2005 11:53 AM
I don't believe that I have any Yankee in me.
Posted by: Drew | April 18, 2005 12:02 PM
80% General American English
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
i'm mostly General American. is that good?
it's a bullshit test, anyways. why isn't California represented in the dialects? mix the damned midwestern and upper midwestern bastards, and give us some props!
westside, baby!
Posted by: mikey | April 18, 2005 12:02 PM
50 General American English
45 Dixie (Texas to be precise)
5 Midwestern
0 Upper Midwestern
0 % Yankee
Sounds about right.
Posted by: David R. Block | April 18, 2005 12:08 PM
Fo' shizzi! I be straight up 70% General American English, yizz-all!
Posted by: Shawn | April 18, 2005 12:17 PM
Where is the choice for "All Hallows Eve" and "Soft Drinks"?
Posted by: Matt | April 18, 2005 12:43 PM
65,25,10,5,0
I like to think of myself as perfect.
Although the route questions is a bit wrong. I pronounce it both ways depending on what I'm describing. A "router," a network device, rhymes with "outer," a word that I just made up. "Route 66," on the other hand, rhymes with "Boot 666," a fashion accessory for the damned.
Posted by: zombyboy | April 18, 2005 12:53 PM
How can you guys let a straight line like that go by?
"Dixie? I have no Dixie in me, bud."
Well then, want some?
Posted by: prairie biker | April 18, 2005 01:05 PM
zombyboy -
You just invented the word "outer"? So are you going to sue The Outer Limits? ;)
Posted by: Keiran Halcyon | April 18, 2005 01:13 PM
In addition to the obvious flaws (regions and options missing, misspellings, etc.), there are two questions with no "General English" answers - #5 (the one about soda) and #12 (the "diagonal" one).
Therefore, the most general English one can speak is 90%.
Posted by: Keiran Halcyon | April 18, 2005 01:23 PM
Matt - "All Hollows Eve" is Halloween, not the day before it.
Posted by: coolrobc | April 18, 2005 01:27 PM
snicker
Er. Yeah. It was a pre-coffee moment...
Posted by: zombyboy | April 18, 2005 01:51 PM
I've got all the Dixie you can handle right here, baby. 45% to be exact.
The "Dixie in you" stuff reminds me of my friend who married a guy from Canada, and told everyone that she was Canadian by injection.
Posted by: skillzy | April 18, 2005 01:59 PM
My Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Posted by: ScottC | April 18, 2005 02:20 PM
Gen Am/Eng=55
Yankee=25
Dixie=15
Upper midwest=5
Youse guys are friggin mooks, I tell ya, mooks! I speak BronxBrooklyneez with a Staten Island inflection.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | April 18, 2005 02:29 PM
100% Frontier Gibberish, dagnabbit, goldurn whippersnappers!
Posted by: Laurence Simon | April 18, 2005 02:41 PM
You get 5% Dixie just for saying "aunt" like a real Noo Yawka!
Posted by: Lesley | April 18, 2005 03:05 PM
Im 45% yankee, 40% General American English and 5% Dixie.
**wondering how an Australian manages to be any of the above*
Posted by: Angel | April 18, 2005 03:19 PM
The test needs "sluff class". Who the hell says "crip class"?
Posted by: Keith | April 18, 2005 03:58 PM
70% GAE
20% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
Posted by: BlkMktBabyDealer | April 18, 2005 04:55 PM
This quiz lacks. It doesn't offer "bubbler" as an option for what you drink from.
Posted by: stacella | April 18, 2005 05:00 PM
My Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
30% Dixie
30% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Where'd I pick up the Yankee talk, I wonder.
Posted by: SarahW | April 18, 2005 05:02 PM
65% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Born and lived in Chicago my whole life.
Posted by: Jim C. | April 18, 2005 05:05 PM
45% Yankee
35% General American English
10% dixie
10% upper midwestern
0% midwestern
Connecticut Yankee born and bred...and I call subs 'grinders'.
Posted by: RyMaN600 | April 18, 2005 05:35 PM
It's funny: I tested out at 85% standard English and 15% Dixie; and 0% in Midwestern.
I'm from Kansas.
Posted by: j.d. | April 18, 2005 06:25 PM
Hmmm....Born and raised in the West/Northwest (Idaho--21 years), then lived in TX for 10 years, and now back in the PNW for the last 12.
General American English: 80%
Dixie: 10%
Yankee: 10%
I guess that's about right. While I was training someone from Texas yesterday, I found myself sliding back into that drawl so easily.
I think I saw a more detailed test like this somewhere else. Will have to look for it.
Posted by: cardeblu | April 18, 2005 07:54 PM
I spent the first 30 years of my life in Minnesota and the last fifteen in Hawaii and this is what I got:
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
I expect that the time in Hawaii has twisted me more towards the "General American English" profile than it would be if I were still in MN. Non-locals here speak California style, which is pretty standard. These days I say "what for?" rather than "what fer?" and I pronounce both the r's in February and library.
Posted by: Terry | April 18, 2005 07:55 PM
55% General American English
35% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee
/born and reared in the great state of Tennessee:-)
Posted by: mr lawson | April 18, 2005 11:01 PM
Here it is, the Dialect Survey with results and maps for 122 questions. Just FYI if anyone's interested.
Posted by: cardeblu | April 19, 2005 02:20 AM
Students at universities in Texas call the easy courses "cowboy" courses. I just randomly chose one on that question, I had never heard any of them before, much less used them.
It said I was
60% GAM
25% Dixie
5% each for the others
I was raised in and still live in an east Texas college town.
Posted by: Victor Krueger | April 19, 2005 11:45 AM
50 GAE
40 Yankees
10 Dixie
Posted by: h0mi | April 19, 2005 12:34 PM
Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Posted by: Jo-Anne | April 20, 2005 08:31 AM