Quiz, What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (house, live)

[Lucidus]

65% General American English

25% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Upper Midwestern

I'm from Texas. That 5% Yankee is just an unnecessary insult.

[dude1984]

70% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

[DinsdalePirahna]

My results:

70% General American English

25% Yankee

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

That Dixie had to come from college in West Virginia. So far I haven't picked up any Midwestern

[Cindiana]

80% General American English

10% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Yankee

I think the 5% Midwestern is funny since I was born, and still live in the Midwest!

[Westerner92]

65% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

Fun test, but not terribly accurate. Does anybody else use "wrapping" instead of toilet papering or whatever or is that a Texas thing?

[eek]

Originally Posted by GLS2010

what driving question?

1. What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?

i call it nothing. i don't drive.

[GLS2010]

Originally Posted by eek

1. What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?

i call it nothing. i don't drive.

well most Americans do drive, and I'm sure even most of the people who don't drive still know what (what i call) roundabouts are. Its just an easy question to find out which regional dialect you use because different regions call it different names.

[Jaipur]

55% General American English

20% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

This is interesting, my accent is sort of hard to track because I have a French tinge to it (not very much though) and then also, I pronounce my consonants like a "Yankee" would and my vowels like a southern person would. I am not sure where I picked this up from, being as English is my second language.

[Smtchll]

55% General American English

30% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

[skidamarink]

80% General American English

15% Yankee

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern


Inaccurate. There is not really a difference between the Midwestern accent and the General American accent. Unless you're specifically talking about the rednecks.