Linguistics Profile Meme

[Dwilah]

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/

Just something faintly amusing.

[Oeree]

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

[Ekade]

Your Linguistic Profile:
80% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie


Pretty accurate I'd say!

[Lok'i Vidaar]

75% General American English
20% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

That's pretty good, considering I'm from Southern Maryland, and son't have as bad an accent as some of the poeple I know... :P

[Krusshyk]

Clicky no worky.

[KirtViza]

60% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Sounds about right I guess

[Jaminos]

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

[Seret Sajet]

75% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee

Pretty much right.

Though I want to know what part of the country says "The Devil is Beating his Wife" when it rains while the sun is shinning. What do they say when the gloomy outside but not raining, "The Devil is giving his old lady the ole Pickfork Suprise?"

[MrDooo]

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie

[Zannon]

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie

Sounds about right.

[Isleh]

45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

[Zyre Mercutio]

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
25% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Zzzzzz

[IagoBoom]

65% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Sweet...I'm 0% Midwest...where I was born, raised, and have hardly ever left!

[Krusshyk]

Ok, now it is working for me...here is me profile...

70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I am a tad confused about the 0% midwestern. I hav never lived outside of the Chicago suburban area except for when I was at school in missour-ah, and all I would EVER hear from people is how I had a midwestern accent.

Although I personally feel that "midwestern accent" means "lack of colloquial pronunciations". Linguists say that most network news anchors speak in what can be considered a "midwestern accent" because it sounds more plain and universal than other American dialects.

[Ekade]

Ok, now it is working for me...here is me profile...

70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

I am a tad confused about the 0% midwestern. I hav never lived outside of the Chicago suburban area except for when I was at school in missour-ah, and all I would EVER hear from people is how I had a midwestern accent.

Although I personally feel that "midwestern accent" means "lack of colloquial pronunciations". Linguists say that most network news anchors speak in what can be considered a "midwestern accent" because it sounds more plain and universal than other American dialects.

Do you use unnecessary prepositions at the end of sentences like most Chicogoans?

For example, "Where are my keys?".. a Chicogoan would way "Where are my keys at?"

My relatives from Maryland accuse me of having a midwestern accent and I say the same thing.. "I don't have an accent." I don't get it.