Wednesday, November 01, 2006

you speak WHUT?

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

interesting. for someone who was born and bred in VT/NH and has never lived anywhere else, i speak

55% General American English

30% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

Ayuh, that's int'rstin'

Berlinbound said...

That's a terrific test!

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Lynne said...

Here's how I break down:

65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I think I got the 5% Dixie for my use of y'all (I have no idea how I picked this up considering I've never lived anywhere but in the southwest of the US) but it's more like "you all" and not "y'all".
They also should have had a question about the use of "like" to find out how much valley girl you speak. I'll admit that at times I have been known to say things like, "Are you like going out to dinner tonight? Because I like totally am hungry."