65-20-10 - General-Yankee-Dixie and whatever 5% a "yes" answer to question 18 (Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?) would add if it were being included in the result.
55% General American English 20% Yankee 15% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
The 'soda', 'pop', or 'coke' one really brought it home for me.
When I lived in Minnesota, it was 'pop' and soda was for ice-cream sodas. Then I moved to Connecticut. It was a bit of a culture shock. They said 'soda'. So I picked that up.
But now I just say 'coke' (or Pepsi).
And that 15% Dixie blew me away!!
That's all Virginia. Moving to Virginia was the biggest culture shock of all my moves.
Your Linguistic Profile:: 55% General American English 30% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern ( I grew up in Wisconsin and I can translate the patois though)
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55% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
A little less yankee and a little more Dixie..no surprise there.
45% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Midwestern
5% Dixie
Hmmmm...taht 5% must come from my time in the army.
Forty ----- Gen Amer
Foty-Fi --- Dixie
Fiteen ---- Uhsawt'd utha
65-20-10 - General-Yankee-Dixie and whatever 5% a "yes" answer to question 18 (Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"?) would add if it were being included in the result.
55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
The 'soda', 'pop', or 'coke' one really brought it home for me.
When I lived in Minnesota, it was 'pop' and soda was for ice-cream sodas. Then I moved to Connecticut. It was a bit of a culture shock. They said 'soda'. So I picked that up.
But now I just say 'coke' (or Pepsi).
And that 15% Dixie blew me away!!
That's all Virginia. Moving to Virginia was the biggest culture shock of all my moves.
Your Linguistic Profile::
55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
( I grew up in Wisconsin and I can translate the patois though)
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