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What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

From the American English Dialect Test:

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

35% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

That’s crap though, since obviously the way I talk is the correct way.  There’s obviously some problem with the test, and I really scored a 100% under "General American English."

How about you?

Posted by Anthony on May 7, 2005 | 7 replies
Filed under: AbuseOfEnglish

Comments:

01. May 7, 2005 at 05:39pm by Kev:

My results were similar to yours, which is not much of a surprise to me since I live in NY and you live in PA. Here are mine:

50% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

It seems I am a bit more dixie, and less Upper Midwestern than you. I’m surprised that either of us have ANY dixie, since we’re not near the south at all. Oh well.

One last thing. Although we scored differently, I agree with you that I obviously speak correctly and deserve a 100% under "General American English".

Fun test... :)

02. May 7, 2005 at 06:02pm by Andy:

60% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

03. May 8, 2005 at 11:37am by Anthony:

Andy, you obviously cheated since you beat me in the "general" ranking, but I don’t even care since your gravatar is so cool : )

04. May 8, 2005 at 07:01pm by Mike:

50% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

It seems I’ve scored very similarly to everyone else and I got to learn some new terms along the way!  Huzzah!  (I might be .5% European Renaissance English too).  One thing’s for sure - I know I got the soda question right.

05. May 10, 2005 at 08:01am by Andy:

yeah, anyway. "pop" is a genre of music i thought.  or something a weasel does on occasion.

06. May 10, 2005 at 08:20am by kim:

Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I got same score as Anthony? Coincidence? I think not.

07. May 10, 2005 at 12:29pm by Anthony:

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