Quiz, What Kind of American English Do You Speak? (summers, event)

[RyannTN]

45% Dixie

40% General American English

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

[zubrus1]

45% General American English

30% Yankee

25% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

Spent my last 7 years in the south after moving from PA.

Makes sense.

[skinem]

Originally Posted by RyannTN

45% Dixie

40% General American English

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

Finally, someone else like me with more Dixie than general American English!

Maybe at least we can be understood by each other...

[chaotix]

Amusing Quiz. . .

80% General American English

20% Yankee

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

[chaotix]

Originally Posted by eek

65% general american english

25% yankee

10% dixie

0% midwestern

0% upper midwestern

the test is stupid tho. The results aren't accurate. I don't drive at all so i had to pick something random on that driving question. I call an easy class an easy class and i don't call throwing rolls of toilet paper over ppl's houses anything. Lol nobody has a house here. I know what a cruller is but i don't use that word at all because i don't eat them. Chocolate frosted all day. Crullers can stay on the shelf.

lol . . .:d

[portyhead24]

55% General American English

30% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

I take issue with the cellar vs. basement question though, we ain't even got the dang things here!

[eon-krate32]

60% General American English

25% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

I find this somewhat accurate for me since I've never been to the Midwest, thus I would have had the opportunity to pick up on their slang. Being southern the lack of Dixie terms is somewhat surprising (never been too far into Yankeeland either). But i'd say it's somewhat accurate.

[nyc2va76]

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.

I am ROFL! about that one.

[blkgiraffe]

65% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

Some of the choices I wouldn't use.

For Shopping Cart; I say basket.

For an easy class; I just say an easy class.

[Thomas R.]

I've sometimes called an easy class "a pud class." I didn't know if this was a regionalism or a Me-ism. Looking it up it appears to be a Kansas/Missouri, and the surrounding area, expression.