Which American dialect are ya?

I'm 100% Californian, but this was interesting:

65% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
 
Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

We in the Midwest have no accents....

I was born in Iowa, but we moved here when I was one. Now, my Iowa relatives sound odd, with a disting "twang".
 
70% General American English
10% Midwestern
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Yankee
hmmm...........
 
80% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern


yehahhhhh....Kinda interesting. :)
 
Know it all Yankee :cool:

or as you say down south, "y'all from up norfh" never quite sure if it's a question or a statement, either way y'all cook sum bodacious vittles down south. :D :cool:
 
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Interesting... Probably irrelevent though.
-Bob
 
No supprise here. Grew up 'round Chicago, lived in CO for 6 years, here for 6.5.

75% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

WTF is a "cruller"?

Despite that my mom is from Kansas, she has very little left of the accent the rest of her family has (probably due to living in Michigan and IL for 25 years). Neither does one of her sisters, but her other sister's accent is so thick you can go swimming in it. And of course, everybody still in KS has the thick accent. This is rural, middle of nowhere farm Kansas BTW. About the only remanent of my mom's Kansas accent is a weeee bit of "crick" in the word "creek". None of this has been passed down to me or my brother.
 
Since I have "kin" in the south I'm somewhat aquainted with those terms which probably skews the result. For example I will occasionally use "Y'all" so I', comfortable with it, but I don't use it that often.

60% General American English
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
 
55% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I wonder how much each question changes things? A few of them didn't give me a good choice. Like, the first question needed an "either".
 
I'm originally from California too, but?
Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern
 
70% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern


But i live in the midwest...i must be a mistake :( :( :(
 
True blue Briton here:

45% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

Some of the questions perplexed me. Why would anyone in their right mind cover a house with toilet paper? "Blow off"? "Crip test"?

You colonial chappies and your colourful ways...

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
True blue Briton here:

45% General American English
35% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

Some of the questions perplexed me. Why would anyone in their right mind cover a house with toilet paper? "Blow off"? "Crip test"?

You colonial chappies and your colourful ways...

maximus otter
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What I wanna know is this. How in the heck do I decode those Cockney accents? I was able to understand Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but I needed a little help at first.

I didn't even try to understand the Gypsy accents in Snatch.
 
70% General
20% Upper Midwest
5% Dixie
5% Midwest
0% Yankee(really didn't expect this... y'all)

Roots...pronounced...Roots....in Michigan. total 30 years.
Lived in 5 different "sunbelt States" for 23 years.

I guess we are slowly loosing our regional dialects?...duh...pronounced.. dah. :)
 
50% General
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern.

Surprisingly accurate for such a simple test. I'm originally from New Hampshire and have gone to school in Wisconsin and North Carolina.

Lagarto
 
Dang, which answer came up with the 5% of Yankee?!? And I lived in Colorado until moving to the South at 7 yrs. old so I would think there would be more Midwestern than Upper Midwestern.

65% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
 
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