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Your Linguistic Profile: 30% Yankee 20% Dixie 15% General American English 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
Yup. I'm a British Yankee. As you can probably tell, there were a few questions that didn't apply. It's pretty much what I expected, though.
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Is one of your parents from the north? That's where I figure my 5% came from -- my mom's from Montana.
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Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 10% Yankee 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern
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55% General American English 30% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
Well, I live in Maine and we have a dialect all to our own. I can see it being more accurate if they threw in a question about 'wicked'.
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50% General American English 30% Yankee 15% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
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But numbers ten and twenty didn't have options for me. I've never used any of those terms for easy classes--I call them "cruise classes." And I say "Mary" and "marry" in the same way but "merry" differently.
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Your Linguistic Profile: 85% General American English 10% Dixie 5% Yankee
I'm suprised that I don't have more Dixie. Surely calling carbonated beverages "Coke" and regularly saying "ya'll" makes me more than 10%. Posts: 1947 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Foster's here sells kreullers (crullers) under the name "old-fashioned kreullers". But we don't say kreuller; everyone around here calls them "old-fashioneds". A chocolate frosted chocolate old-fashioned from Foster's is my favorite donut in the world!
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Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern
My speech is a bit confused because I grew up in the Midwest, but my dad is from Texas and my mom's native language isn't English (although she is fluent in it). So I have a thoroughly Midwestern accent, but I also say things like "y'all" and "critters", both of which came from my dad. However, I did not pick up his use of "over yonder".
I took a different quiz like this a while back that actually narrowed its results to different regions within regions, which was really interesting. I can't find the link for it, though.
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Crullers are incredible. I think I like even more than normal donuts. You can find them all the time at Dunkin Donuts, and being from Massachusetts, you can find them on every street corner. They're almost like Starbucks in Seattle.
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Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 25% Dixie 10% Yankee 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern
Being from Biloxi, I really thought I'd have more Dixie! I guess being up here in the North has rubbed off on me! They tell me this is still the South(Virginia), but it doesn't feel like it! Nobody has real sweet tea and the grits suck! Posts: 601 | Registered: Sep 2002
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I get the General American English, and Dixie makes sense because my mother is from the South originally. But where the heck did the Upper Midwestern and Yankee come from. I grew up in southern California and my father was born in Germany but his family came straight to California when he was two and a half years old.
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75% General American English 20% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern
Like Carrie, I had to make something up for the drinking fountain/water fountain question. It's called a bubbler!
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45% General American English 30% Yankee 15% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
I had to leave some questions blank, because the correct answer wasn't among the listed choices.
I am generally American, so OK. Born and raised in New York, so OK. Went to school and got married in Georgia, OK. But Upper Midwestern? I could barely find that on a map. Never been there.
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I've lived in Iowa more than any other place - next would be Chicago. I always considered myself Midwestern. Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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I remembered some things I USE to say when I lived in MI, so I went back to take it again...and it got it right, saying I was 65% upper midwestern. Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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kq, you may already know this, but an "Old Fashioned" is a type of mixed drink. So, people telling me they had an Old Fashioned for breakfast would amuse me to no end.
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