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)
You gotta lotta hick... err... rural in you but you've been to the Big City a time or three and didn't hate it. You've been a member of a trade union at some point. Oh, and you almost certainly graduated from HS at least ;)
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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.
Most Houstonians were born someplace else. I don’t think we have a distinct dialect. We are strange human beings.
45% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Midwestern
5% Dixie
Hmmmm...taht 5% must come from my time in the army.
60% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
I see, he said.
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.
I was very disappointed with that test.
Where were the questions:
Do you call your father:
- Dad
- Pop
- Daddy
Do you call your mother:
- Mom
- Mamma
- Ma'am
Do you refer to your Grandfather as:
- PopPop
- Grandpa
Do you refer to your Grandmother as:
- MomMom
- Grandma
Do you call males you don't know:
- Buddy
- Bubba
- Yo
Do you call females you don't know:
- Lil' Darlin'
- Sweetheart
- Ma'am
Do you refer to children as:
- rugrats
- critters
Pork comes from a:
- pig
- hog
Beef comes from a:
- cow
- steer
Is that lump in your pocket a:
- handgun
- pistol
- sidearm
Is clothing that needs cleaning refered to as:
- warsh
- laundry
Do you make a sandwich from:
- coldcuts
- lunchmeat
Knucklehead:
- Pop
- Mamma
- Grandpa
- Grandma
- Yo
- Lil' Darlin' (I wish)
- rugrats
- hog
- steer
- pistol
- warsh (thanks, Pop)
- coldcuts
Different results this time?
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)
Skook,
You gotta lotta hick... err... rural in you but you've been to the Big City a time or three and didn't hate it. You've been a member of a trade union at some point. Oh, and you almost certainly graduated from HS at least ;)
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