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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 6:50 pm
Interesting dialect test: americanenglishdialecttest
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 6:51 pm
My results Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 20% Yankee 15% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:03 pm
Your Linguistic Profile: 70% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern ------ that's a fun quiz.thanks sea. i'm going to send the link to dh at work.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:04 pm
Your Linguistic Profile: 70% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:06 pm
70% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 15% Yankee 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:10 pm
65% General American English 20% Upper Midwestern 10% Yankee 5% Midwestern 0% Dixie
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:19 pm
65% General American English 20% Yankee 15% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 8:39 pm
65% General American English 20% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie (must have been that y'all) 5% Midwestern 5% Yankee
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 9:33 pm
65% General American English 20% Yankee 15% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern 0% midwestern????? Yeah right. I was born and raised (by a foreign born mother) in central Illinois. Can't GET much more midwestern than that.
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 10:01 pm
75% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern 0% Dixie 0% Yankee
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 10:39 pm
65% General American English 15% Dixie 15% Yankee 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 4:48 am
Your Linguistic Profile: 45% General American English 30% Yankee 15% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern Makes sense...the 30% comes from growing up on the east coast...the 15% comes from living with my hubby for 32 years(he grew up in Alabama) and the 10% comes from living in Ohio since I was 17... Cool test...
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 5:24 am
Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 35% Yankee 10% Dixie 0% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern Hmmm, wondering where that "Dixie" came from... Fun test, good find, Seamonkey.
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Essence
Member
01-12-2002
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 5:27 am
65% General American English 20% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 5:41 am
Your Linguistic Profile: 35% General American English 25% Yankee 20% Dixie 15% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern Gee I understand the Yankee, Upper Midwestern and Midwestern, since I grew up close to the New York border and now live close to the Michigan border which is considered Midwestern, but how the hell 20% Dixie got in there is a mystery to me. Maybe I was a southern belle in my other life.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 7:27 am
75% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 10% Yankee 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern I've lived in California all my life so it makes sense.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 9:34 am
60% General American English 25% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern I don't like the question about what you call an "easy course". I don't call my easy classes ANY of those names, nor have I ever heard those terms before!! I was bitter than I had to choose one. JUJU - You lost your midwestern from all the travelling you do! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:24 am
Eeyores, I had never heard of any of those terms either. Wink, have you noticed that so far you speak the least General American English?
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:30 am
That's cause Wink is more unique than most...
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:19 pm
40% General American English 40% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern
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Metoo
Member
02-22-2005
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:31 pm
60% General American English 30% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Midwestern I didn't realize I had so much Dixie in me ya'll.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:38 pm
80% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern 0% Dixie 0% Yankee Wow, I'm pretty boring!
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:40 pm
Wow Who...you have the highest General American English!!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:50 pm
Yea, that's why I must be pretty boring. Or have no life. I guess its proof positive I don't get around much! 
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Littlebreeze
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:53 pm
60% Yankee 15% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 10% Dixie 0% Midwestern
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