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Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Interesting dialect test:
americanenglishdialecttest

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My results

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern



Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
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that's a fun quiz.thanks sea. i'm going to send the link to dh at work.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern


Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie


Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 8:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie (must have been that y'all)
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 10:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
65% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 4:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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...


Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 5:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.


Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 5:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
65% General American English
20% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 5:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 7:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 9:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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?

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's cause Wink is more unique than most...

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
40% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Metoo
Member

02-22-2005

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
80% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee

Wow, I'm pretty boring!

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow Who...you have the highest General American English!!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yea, that's why I must be pretty boring. Or have no life. I guess its proof positive I don't get around much!

Littlebreeze
Member

02-18-2001

Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
60% Yankee
15% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern