What type of american english do you speak?

[honestrosewater]

80% General American English
10% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I guess. The insurance fraud one is good. Don't see many platypuses these days though...

 

[JamesU]

I could'a swere that HRW was dixie!

 

[Mk]

70% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
I would have to say this test is surprisingly accurate... for me.

 

[honestrosewater]

I could'a swere that HRW was dixie!

No, no - that's Pixie.

 

[JamesU]

I could make a comment, but it would cost me more chocolates

 

[Monique]

55% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

What's Dixie?

 

[honestrosewater]

What's Dixie?

The South. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Southern_states

 

[hitssquad]

Dixie - what it is, and why Toyota doesn't want it

What's Dixie?

The slave states and the dialect of American English spoken there.
http://images.google.com/images?q=dukes of hazzard&num=20

http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/downloads/dukes_of_hazzard.jpg

Today, they are known worldwide as the low-IQ states.
childrenofmillennium.org/science.htm

google.com/search?q=toyota+workers+plant+trainability

 

[matthyaouw]

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

I don't think this says much, because on more than one question I had to chose at random because there was no 'none of the above'.
Saying that, I'm pretty sure I speak English English, rather than any type of American English (with maybe a we bit of Scottish).

 

[Norman]

50% yankee, 40% Gen Am. (that seems to be Southern Connecticut in a nutshell), 5% dixie (that must've been my 5 years at UVA),
0% midwestern. (No surprises, I freaked out the first time someone asked "Do you want a sack for your pop?")

A sack for your pop? Where in the midwest were you living? I was born and raised in Green Bay, WI and have spent the last 8 years in Milwaukee. (I have never before lived outside of Wisconsin...) I have never heard of calling a grocery bag a sack... I am so confused.

But these New Englanders (I just moved here about a month ago) are sometimes completely unintelligible. I will go to the grocery store and the checkout person will say something and all I can do is smile, cause I have no clue what they just said to me...
I have so much to get accustomed to...
Cheers,
Ryan

 

[somasimple]

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

That's a weird reply since I'm French.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I was born and raised in Green Bay, WI and have spent the last 8 years in Milwaukee...

...But these New Englanders (I just moved here about a month ago) are sometimes completely unintelligible.

This is so funny. When I was a kid in New Hampshire, a family moved to town from Wisconsin. Their accent was completely outlandish. We'd never heard such a thing!

Most people are aware of the general regional dialects, from TV and movies if nothing else, but I'm not sure most people in the US are familiar with the hiarious Wisconsin accent. It doesn't get much press. There have been some California vs Wisconsin Cheese commercials made in California in the past few years, that tried to take aim at it, but I'm not sure if they pulled it off.

Once I left NH, of course, I became the one with the outlandish accent. To avoid standing out like a sore thumb, I have toned it down to near neutral. Now, when I go back to New England, everyone there sounds pretty hilarious. Most of those small cities in Massachusetts are particuarly thickly accented.

 

[Townsend]

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

That's a weird reply since I'm French.

Yeah...I don't think this test is accurate at all.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yeah...I don't think this test is accurate at all.

Because it only gives you one choice: some kind of American usage. Even people from Lower Sylvania for whom English is a third language end up seeming to have some kind of American dialect, because that's the only choice.

 

[Gokul43201]

Non-Americans will naturally speak Genglish and Yank. But if you can't Yank, you're not a jerk.

 

[Monique]

Genglish??

 

[djeipa]

Take the test now:

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

That test is really funnie, and stu-bad.
I am not an AMerican, but

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

It really makes me laugh

 

[Nomy-the wanderer]

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

MammaMia!

 

[Integral]

70% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie

I have lived my whole life in the PNW, was relived to see no dixie! I had to pick a random answer for the hard class question, I had never heard or used any of the terms!

 

[Andy]

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

But i do try to speak the queens english whenever the opportunity arises.

 

[Lapin Dormant]

55% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern


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