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fribbles, ltd.This was a fun quiz!
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofame … speakquiz/
For the record, I live in Montana and have for the past 16 years [over half my life, I'm 26], but was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota---moved around as a kid and lived in Florida and Colorado before the final move to Montana when I was 10 [1990].
Here're my results---
Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
..how about everyone else?
Amelia
That was fun! 
Although there wasn't the correct choice for me for the night before Halloween.......we call it Beggar's Night! 
Here's my results.........seems right on par since I've always lived in Iowa! 
65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
Here are my results. Not sure what this says about me- Maybe I am living in the wrong place ???? :crackup:
45% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
PottersHouse BearsI speak General American English with a real good dose of Dixie. I have been told that I have my own language at times.
Sunnie Bears60% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
Acid Attic Bears60% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Bruinwerks
55% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
I wonder what my other 5% is? My DH would probably say 'unintelligible gibberish' ! :crackup: :crackup:
Here's me!
***Your Linguistic Profile:***
70% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
DoodlebearsBeing a Brit I found my results funny.
Your Linguistic Profile:
35% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
No bad for a pure bred Brit!
Hugs Jane.
Well, you can certainly tell I've lived in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska!
85% General American English
10% Upper Midwest
Where is the other 5%?
Warmest hugs, :hug:
Aleta
dusty attic bearsYour Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
That was fun, but being english like jane it was quite funny. I have never heard of some of those words.And we call them shopping trollies (not an option for that one :crackup: )
Past Time BearsHmmmmm.
60% American English
25% Dixie (not surprising there - :crackup: :crackup: )
5% Midwest
5% Yankee (what?)
0% Upper Midwest
We lived in New York, Mississippi, and Colorado while hubs was in the Air Force . . . so maybe a bit of speech from those parts has been an influence.
Bine-TeddiesNow I'm German, my teachers taught British English, I watch American movies (not dubbed here in Sweden). Here are my results, which add up to 95%. Wonder what the missing 5% would be.... :doh:
Didn't know all the words, but most.
50% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
:doh: :doh: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
45% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
Hmmm...lived witha guy from Iowa and grew up listening to country music...can that be the reason why?:-))
Swan Valley BearsI was born and raised in northern California. These results look like they're typical of the west coast folks who answered above.
Here's mine:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
Posts: 8,574How amusing for those of you from Sweden, England Canada..... :crackup:
but then we yanks do tend to be somewhat ethnocentric....
i wish they had expanded the questions;
see if all that BBC America is rubbing off, not to mention those delicious murder mysterys you folks put out..... :crackup:
BrisbaneAs an Aussie I thought this would be fun..
40% General American English
30% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Those are my results...seems like a good mix of everything
Kingfisher Farm Teddies and Folk Art***Your Linguistic Profile:***
65% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Yankee
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofame … speakquiz/ This is weird since I was born in, raised in, and lived in the Midwest, except for one summer in France!! Pam
Back Road Bears45% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
So does that mean my American English ain't so good? Can't help it if I was born n' raised a redneck yankee! :crackup:
Posts: 1,277Here's mine:
75% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Hmm...I seem to be missing 5% also...???
WienKwel!
Amelia, thanx for the link...here´s my result:
50% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
...ain´t there 5 % missing? Guess you can´t fool the machine, since I´m born, raised and living in Austria
But it was nice trying....
Gaby 
Posts: 12That was fun.. As you can tell I am truly a girl from the south..
50% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee
Posts: 65Also a Brit but I lived in Colorado for a year. There were a couple where none of the options were British English, so I just chose at random. They say American English is largely pronounced the way it is as an offshoot of South Western British English, although it evolved differently... Aussie slang words have a lot more in common with British English - when I lived in the US I worked with an Aussie and we'd say things to eachother that no-one else could understand! I always found it interesting that you have words like *trash* and *sidewalk* that died out from British English around the 18thC and many things most Brits think of as 'Americanisms' are actually just archaic British English (Can you tell I did a degree in English? !) Also we seem to have far more swear words and some of your rude words aren't rude here, and vice versa:
Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Ruby Mountain BearsOkay here is mine!
65% general American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% dixie
0% Midwestern
Don't know where the Yankee comes from??
Ruby Mountain BearsOkay here is mine!
65% general American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% dixie
0% Midwestern
Don't know where the Yankee comes from??
