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Hi Y'all....

I came across this on another forum for American Expats and thought you might have a little fun with it.

http//tinyurl.com/3ufhu
That's kind of fun but some of the options you have to choose one and none apply

Anyway, I came out

55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
50% General American English
25% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I don't know about anyone else but I call a shopping cart a trolley?

50% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Midwestern
40% General American English
30% Yankee
25% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

There were a few that didn't apply to me either...and I use a trolley too!
45% Yankee
40% General American
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern and Upper Midwestern

I didn't answer the "easy course one" because I wouldn't use any of them.

Apparently, they haven't heard of English english.
40% Yankee
35% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I agree - definitely a trolley. Another one they missed was drinking fountain; around here it is called a bubbler - I say bubbler more often than not, because I like it!
45% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

I use a trolley too, and I wear trainers not tennis shoes or sneakers.
Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I'm a 'cart'er, presumably some of the other bizarre options are things people say in some parts, "Kitty Corner", The devil is beating his wife"!

For anyone else who is wondering:

dictionary.com Wrote:
crul·ler    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (krlr)
n.
Chiefly Northeastern, Central Atlantic, & Upper Northern U.S. A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.
Chiefly New England & Pennsylvania. An unraised doughnut, usually twisted but also shaped into rings or oblongs.


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[From obsolete Dutch krulle-koken, rolled-up cake, from Middle Dutch crulle-koken, to curl, from crulle, curly.]

Your Linguistic Profile

50% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern


Who'd have thunk it. lol
45% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

This is total bollox, most of questions had ALL wrong answers.
My Linguistic Profile


50% General American English
25% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

Now y'all, this here test is a funny one razz

I seem to be quite a mixed up person. grin
I got a 100 pecent mockney basard
45% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I wonder what makes an Upper Midwesterner and Midwest as no one seems to score more than 5% on those ones.

wendl @ Fri 18 Nov, 2005 10:27 am Wrote:
I wonder what makes an Upper Midwesterner and Midwest as no one seems to score more than 5% on those ones.


I answered it like they speak round here (which I would say is the upper Midwest) and got the following:

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

You'd think it should be higher than 20% upper and 0% midwest wouldn't you?

Perhaps it's because I live in a University town and so all the accents merge to form a "University accent" like they do in the UK? :???:

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