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My schizophrenic pronunciation tendencies
So I took the test twice, each with either the same answer if it was a given, or different answers if I fluctuated between two options equally:
Your Linguistic Profile:
| 75% General American English | 15% Upper Midwestern | 5% Dixie | 5% Midwestern | 0% Yankee |
Your Linguistic Profile:
| 50% General American English | 20% Upper Midwestern | 20% Yankee | 5% Dixie | 5% Midwestern |
So I think this is the way it really plays out, averaging the two:
Your Linguistic Profile:
| 62.5% General American English | 17.5% Upper Midwestern | 10% Yankee | 5% Dixie | 5% Midwestern |
5 Comments
I'm still baffled that I'm 5% dixie chick.
Posted by Ann @ 04:23:2005:01:56 PM CST
What is Yankee?
Posted by Stan @ 04:24:2005:05:22 PM CST
The way my dad talks, silly.
Posted by Ann @ 04:24:2005:05:26 PM CST
i was 15% dixie -- which is also baffling. prior to moving to New York, i lived 22 years in Utah, 3 in Colorado--i wouldn't consider either of these places 'dixie'. does yankee mean east coast/colonial/transatlantic? i'm still not sure about the (test creators) dialect groupings.
Posted by bran @ 04:27:2005:12:09 AM CST
Yeah, I think Yankee means New Englandish, like Hah-vehd instead of Harvard. Kind of a weird word...to Brits, it means Americans (Yanks), but to Americans, it doesn't mean other Americans, just those Nor'easters. Here's an odd bit of trivia that I gleaned from listening to NPR or something...it's a hybrid word of Dutch derivation, meaning "Johnny Cheese"...Yan (John) and kees (cheese). I guess Europeans thought those over here smelled of cheese. I would think back in the colonial days they smelled much worse.
Posted by Ann @ 04:27:2005:01:09 PM CST
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