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Title: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: isabelle on November 22, 2006, 05:02:53 pm: ***Your Linguistic Profile:***

50% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

This is funny, I never knew I could speak any kind of American English (I'm more versed in British English), and there you go: 20% Dixie! (Is that the south?)
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: opinionista on November 22, 2006, 05:08:30 pm: Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

30% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/ (http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/)
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Ellemeno on November 22, 2006, 10:05:04 pm: Quote from: isabelle on November 22, 2006, 05:02:53 pm
***Your Linguistic Profile:***

50% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

This is funny, I never knew I could speak any kind of American English (I'm more versed in British English), and there you go: 20% Dixie! (Is that the south?)

Yes, exactly.
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Shuggy on November 23, 2006, 03:58:27 am: I left some fields blank. I put my groceries in a trolley or trundler. I've never heard of spreading lavatory paper in front of a house. I call carbonated sweet drinks fizzy drink. An easy class is a doddle or a pushover or a cultural unit (and we had another expression but I can't remember it). I don't know how caramel can be pronounced with two syllables. What's a cruller?
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Ellemeno on November 23, 2006, 05:13:13 am: Quote from: Shuggy on November 23, 2006, 03:58:27 am

I don't know how caramel can be pronounced with two syllables. What's a cruller?

Car-mull. A cruller is like a donut. A sweet, deep-fried dough thing.
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Bigheart on December 13, 2006, 10:09:04 am: Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

30% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/ (http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/)
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: David on December 13, 2006, 10:23:46 am: Your Linguistic Profile:

40% General American English
30% Yankee
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: David on December 13, 2006, 10:31:00 am: Over here in the States we have always called our portable phones : Cellular phones. Or Cell phones for short. I noticed in the UK all y'all call them "Mobiles".

Which does make sense.

Last week I saw a TV commercial for some kind of Cellular service and they said "Mobile". Hmm, maybe that term is working its way over here?

PS: Yes, I am a Yankee and don't usually use the "all y'all" term. LOL

But for those not familiar with this southern US expression, Y'all is singular and all y'all is plural.
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Kelda on December 13, 2006, 10:40:27 am: ah ha! I've always been confused by the line in the Buffy musical episode:

Xander: Respect the cruller, and tame the doughnut!
Anya: That's still funny, sweetie.

Now I know a cruller is a doughnut!!
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: saucycobblers on December 13, 2006, 08:08:37 pm: Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

25% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/ (http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/)

Like Shuggy, I use 'trolly' and 'doddle', and GOOD GRIEF, what is this toilet paper on your house thing??
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Kerry on December 13, 2006, 08:37:46 pm: 40% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

I'm thrilled that my accent incorporates some Midwestern elements (is that Jack and Ennis' accent?).

P.S. In Australia we call a water/drinking fountain a "bubbler" and a sweetened carbonated beverage is a "fizzy drink"!

Kerry
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: insane-romantic on December 21, 2006, 01:00:41 pm: Well really, as I am British, I don't speak any kind of American English. The things I say weren't options on the list :( Like, I work out in trainers, I push groceries in a trolley... Nevertheless, apparently

Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
25% Dixie
25% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Shuggy on December 23, 2006, 03:00:48 am: Quote from: DavidinHartford on December 13, 2006, 10:31:00 am
Over here in the States we have always called our portable phones : Cellular phones. Or Cell phones for short. I noticed in the UK all y'all call them "Mobiles".

Which does make sense.

Last week I saw a TV commercial for some kind of Cellular service and they said "Mobile".

I heard at a Skeptics' Conference that the phone companies insist on the term "mobile" because they don't want their phones to be associated with things cellular - it reminds people of "cell damage" and the like. I don't know why they're not called "portable" or "pocket" phones. "Mobile" sounds like you push it around on wheels.

(Nerd note: They're called cellular because there is a "cell" of reception around each transmitter, and your phone seamlessly changes from one to another, depending on which has the greatest signal strength.)
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: Kerry on December 23, 2006, 07:04:18 am: They're called Mobiles here in Australia.
Title: Re: What kind of American English do you speak?
Post by: min on April 01, 2009, 05:08:42 am: You Speak General American English!

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55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern