Which American dialect are ya?

[Gossman Knives]

75% general
15% yankee
5% dixie
We always called the nite before Halloween, moving nite.
Scott

 

[gajinoz]

Hmmmm...

General 45%
Yankee 30%
Dixie 20%
Midwestern 0%
Upper mid 0%

(Don't know what happened to the other 5% ! )

This is interesting considering that I'm not American. Especially since some of the terms in the test don't even exist here.

Just another mildy amusing but meaningless test.

 

[mycroftt]

I didn't understand any of the questions so I guess they weren't profiling my demographic group. So just FUGGEDABOWDIT, AWRIGHT?

 

[Jeff Clark]

I show up with a pretty typical California profile:
My results:

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

In reality I have a lot of vocabulary quirks that clearly reveal my roots as a Pasadena/Caltech brat. A couple days ago I broke down and called an old friend of mine from back in the 'hood (Euclid Avenue in Pasadena). I haven't talked to him in around 40 years and he sounded just like me. When you go to the same elementary school and your fathe's work at the same college you tend to sound alike. You have to understand that an awful lot of people ask me what country I come from when they hear me speak. You have to know the world I came from. My friend Mike wrote the screen play for the Revenge of the Nerds.

 

[tarsier]

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

 

[panella]

70% General
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwest
5% Yankee
0% Midwest

As a native Californian I feel snubbed. No western dialect?! First it's college sports rankings, now this.

I grew up pronouncing the word wash as warsh (not strictly a western pronunciation, I know). My best friend in high school was from Massachusetts and I pointed out that he left the "r" off the word drawer when it was spoken.

He asked me to describe the act of cleaning clothes. I said: "You warsh them." "Spell it," he said. I got the first two letters out and he said: "Now you know where the 'r' went."

We traded r's on the spot. I've never pronounced "wash" with an "r" and he manages to work one in at the end of "drawer".

 

[fixer27]

Talk about confusion

50% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% midwestern
5% upper midwestern

I guess I spent too much time as a child in Buffalo. Does anyone have an
irrelevant test? Maybe I can ace that one!

 

[fudo]

45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie

Raised in Philadelphia, lived in Oklahoma 35 years

 

[geothorn]

70% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

That's a fun little test. I'm from Ohio, so I'm surprised at the amount of "Dixie" versus 'Midwestern.'

GeoThorn

 

[Dijos]

45% General American English
30% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

 

[Dijos]

Ah, there ya go, I grew up in Wayne. I thought "goosey night" spread beyond Wayne, but I know central and south Jersey folks don't use that term. May not even make it out of Passaic county, I guess. I'm actually kinda interested in knowing how far it goes.

edit: google reveals it's made it out to at least Morris county.

My mom and dad are from bloomfield and belleville, and they all called it goosey night too. It was pretty well understood in essex county as well. I had no idea it had another name until I moved to the south.

 

[raghorn]

Another guy raised in the mid-Atlantic seaboard:

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

 

[penguin_2000]

For the same reason someone would buy 10 packages of generic oreo cookies, then twist/lick/stick them all over the windows of a car.

and the same reason you'd buy boxes of plastic forks and stick them in someone else's yard...

As for me:
75% General American English
20% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
...I life 8 years in Minnesota and can't manage just a little bit of Midwestern? At least I learned a bit from my years in Texas I guess.

 

[sweet]

80% General American English
10% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[A.W.U.K.]

35% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

They don't add up to 100% 'cos I left out a couple where no answers applied.

Mary = Mearrey
Marry = marruy
Merry = merruy

Andrew.

 

[Tiewas]

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

weird test. i was born and raised in central missouri.