Thursday, May 18, 2006

American Roots

Your Linguistic Profile::
60% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
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6 comments:

  1. Unknown5:01 AM, May 19, 2006

    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.

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  2. Eric6:19 AM, May 19, 2006

    45% General American English
    20% Yankee
    15% Upper Midwestern
    10% Midwestern
    5% Dixie

    Hmmmm...taht 5% must come from my time in the army.

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  3. buddy larsen9:28 AM, May 19, 2006

    Forty ----- Gen Amer
    Foty-Fi --- Dixie
    Fiteen ---- Uhsawt'd utha

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  4. loner9:47 AM, May 19, 2006

    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.

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  5. Syl10:11 AM, May 19, 2006

    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.

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  6. cf12:25 PM, May 19, 2006

    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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