Blogthings: What kind of American English do you speak?
Brought to my attention by my cousin, Aaron (who, incidentally, scored 80/10/5/5/0):
Your Linguistic Profile: |
65% General American English |
20% Yankee |
10% Upper Midwestern |
5% Dixie |
0% Midwestern |
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4 Comments:
I wonder if it's a NorCal vs. SoCal difference: I hella speak
70% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I grew up in San Jose.
Den agen, linguists tend not tink I hab a natib language (Tagalog is da language op my moder, but I am not nearly as propishent in it as in English).
Haha, yeah. I know I don't speak English as well as I used to before I started studying linguistics! Also, I've worked a lot on the dialect survey from which (I'm 99% sure) the questions on that quiz were taken, so I'm basically willing to accept any regional variant, particularly those that sound cool. It's often hard for me to remember what I say natively!
Just a tad more Dixie than caelestis:
65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
75/15/5/5/0: born and raised in Sonoma, California. One quibble, I used to call an easy class a Mick back in the day.
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