What kind of American English do you speak?
An interesting test that asks only twenty key questions. It's funny just to see what questions they ask. Here are my results. I had to fess up on the "y'all" question, so there's your Dixie component. Not sure how I got any Yankee at all, maybe "caramel."
60% General American English
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
7 comments:
Predictably, I scored considerably higher on Yankee:
45% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Neat test, Shocho. Thanks for the tip.
Ha! I cannot believe I scored Midwestern the same as Dixie. Ugh. Of course, I have moved around a bit.
80% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Yankee
60% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Very interesting. I have noticed, more often now, that I have developed a somewhat subtle twang in my dialect, which is generally pretty "Yankee." I suspsect that if the poll were more in-depth, that big General American English total would filter off into Dixie more than the other categories.
Odd that I see this poll after noticing the development of a twang...
And to double post, I imagine most people will find it very weird that the silver fox there and I score differently. I guess that 800 mile difference is starting to actually make us different...
Ah tol ya fer years you waznt talkin raht, boy.
As a Canadian, I was interested to see how I rated...
55% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
I did find most of the questions confusing however, as I had no cultural reference to about five of them at all. I kept looking for the "None of the Above" selection.
Ah well, you Americans are simply a different breed... ;-)
70% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
I expect my high "General American" score, like mkae's, has to do with the both of us having trained at some point in our lives to perform in a "no accent" voice. Where Kindralas thinks a more detailed test would have filtered him more away from "General," I suspect a more detailed test would have filtered mkae and I MORE General.
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