I guess I am not surprised by this assessment. I speak Minnesota English; go figure. But how did that 5% Yankee creep in there?
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 70% General American English |
| 20% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
| 0% Dixie |
Monday, April 18, 2005
That is, if I speak any kind of English anymore...
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That's exactly how mine came back, too.
That's the same as what mine was.
Our results are, to a fine point, identical.
Y'all and my'all's was the same.
Jess,
My results:
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
I agree, where does the Yankee come from? Though I must admit that there were a few questions that I had to debate which I say most...and even one that my choice wasn't listed!
What do you drink water from?
a water fountain (that's something that sprays water in the center of a city or college campus as far as I'm concerned)
a drinking fountain (okay, this one makes sense)
but my answer is...bubbler!
Definitely a southeastern Wisconsin/Milwaukee area word...guess not enough people use it for it to make the quiz.
I'm quite tickled. My score was:
65% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
I have hints of Dixie in my vocabulary! Must have been due to that short time I lived in England. Or maybe it's my Singaporean coming through. You know how they're all connected.
Charlie, I am not surprised that we speak the same English. I wouldn't have thought otehrwise! Did you notice how funny everyone thinks you are? If not, you should read the comments on my I-can't-sleep-due-to-loud-annoying-techno-music entry.
Jodi, Hi!!!!!! Welcome to the blog! Or maybe you have been lurking for a while, in which case welcome anyway. I hope things are going well for you. :-) I have heard of bubblers... but I never would think to say it myself. That is so funny, since White Bear Lake is really not all that far from Wisconsin.
Rachel, after reading the cities listed in your blog, I too am bewildered at how Dixie crept in there. Des Moines is really not all that far south! Where are your parents from?
Jodi, I don't know you but I'm with you ... I was stumped on the "water fountain," "drinking fountain" thing too ... since "bubbler" is what first comes to mind. And four years in Missouri obviously made me more Dixie than Midwestern? Is that possible? I think my "y'all" answer skewed my results.
I have no idea why I have more Yankee-speak in me than upper midwestern where I am from...I've never even been to the northeastern United States. It might be because I've recently started calling pop soda?
65% General American English
25% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Amy, they make it easy to post it on your blog--after you take the test, there is a button underneath the results that says something like "copy and save." You click on that, and then go paste it (Control-V)into a new blog entry, and voila! (It comes up as HTML, so don't be scared off by a bunch of weird-looking signs and commands)
Amber, the y'all is a dead giveaway... even in real life.
Jana... do they call it "soda" in Duluth?!?
They don't call it soda, but so many of my journalist friends are from other parts that I sort of got into the habit of saying soda instead of pop, mostly because I feel like a north woods hick every time I say pop. Perhaps I'm an upper midwestern girl in denial.
Both my folks are from Singapore, maybe with just a hint of their British education coming through.
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