Know Your American Dialect!

[TB3]

Very good, TB3. Why can't you be like 10 years younger!

Uh...because my parents were married in 1985, not 1995 - but thanks anyway

[Hidushikai offline]

sweeeet

[KayLenny#7 offline]

Very good, TB3. Why can't you be like 10 years younger!

Uh...because my parents were married in 1985, not 1995 - but thanks anyway

Lol, I don't know how old you are, but I was just saying that because of the high level of Yankeeness. ^^

[YDV offline]

Durn Yanks!

1985? My mom would've been... 13. o.O

[KayLenny#7 offline]

Durn Yanks!

1985? My mom would've been... 13. o.O

And being early 2006, shouldn't she be like 23 or 24? She had you when she was 10?! Dang!

Eh... But yeah. Yankeeness ish the secks. I can't stress that enough.

[Jeremie Lover offline]

50% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern

IM NOT YANKEE! STUPID QUIZ

[DeadViolet offline]

50% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern

I'm from the south, man!!!

[YDV offline]

Durn Yanks!

1985? My mom would've been... 13. o.O

And being early 2006, shouldn't she be like 23 or 24? She had you when she was 10?! Dang!

Eh... But yeah. Yankeeness ish the secks. I can't stress that enough.

...No. She had me when she was 20. ^^;

Technically I'm a Midwesternite, not a Yankee, so I'm good.

[Mewberries151]

Well, this is an interesting quiz, to be sure! I never really thought about what kind of "dialect" I use. Nice find, YDV! ^_^

50% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

[YDV offline]

I wonder what "General American English" really means, anyway..

Thanks! ^-^

[TB3]

I wonder what "General American English" really means, anyway..

Thanks! ^-^

It's probably the 'non-American' elements that the government doesn't want you to know about - 'Brit English', Mexican, Canadian, Jamaican etc.

[Rachiru offline]

75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie

[animenologist offline]

70% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Guess that makes sense. Spent most of my early childhood in Conneticut, spent 12 years of adolescence to adulthood in Florida, but I usually try to speak like its pronounced in a talking dictionary.

Probably General American is probably how its supposed to be pronounced correctly according to phonics and not using slang or colloquial terms to describe things, like in the various questions it asks if you give a name to certain actions that you probably won't find in a normal Webster's dictionary.

[SamBlob offline]

And this Jamaican got:

35% General American English
30% Yankee
25% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

"The Devil beating his wife" is close to what I really know the phenomenon as, which is: "The Devil and his wife are fighting" (and some old folk add: "...over a piece of herring-bone")

As for the diagonal, the phrase I know is "cater-corner".

AFAIK, "route" rhymes with "boot" and "rout" rhymes with "out"...