What kind of American English do you speak? (Quiz)

[Cloud9Gal]

I thought this was neat!

Please share your results!

Mine was: "

65% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/

[Moses03]

Mine was: "I speak General American English".



Same!

[redriver6]

i don't think they have a category for Southern Fried English:icon_lol:

[Tako_Kichi]

I don't speak any kind of 'American' English....I speak the real thing! ;)

[Cloud9Gal]

I don't speak any kind of 'American' English....I speak the real thing! ;)


LOL! I have to admit, I do love the British Accent :)

[HouseHobbit]

WOW.. I speaks Hobbit..
Where does that fits in?

I gresses Mes' is alone...
Oh WELL...

:icon_lol: :icon_lol:

[PRB]

General American.
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

But, some questions, for me, had two answers, depending on when. For example, as a child we all said "cellar". but now I say "basement". So how do I answer? And what the heck is a cruller?

I'm surprised they didn't include the names of the meals of the day. As a child, we had breakfast, dinner, and supper, in that order. Now it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think it's a Northeast thing, but not sure.

[Cloud9Gal]

General American.
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

But, some questions, for me, had two answers, depending on when. For example, as a child we all said "cellar". but now I say "basement". So how do I answer? And what the heck is a cruller?

I'm surprised they didn't include the names of the meals of the day. As a child, we had breakfast, dinner, and supper, in that order. Now it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think it's a Northeast thing, but not sure.


You and I come from the same neck of the woods PRB.

Yes, it's breakfast, lunch and supper :)

Isn't a cruller some type of donut? LOL!

[Cloud9Gal]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Chocolate_cruller_doughnut.jpg/220px-Chocolate_cruller_doughnut.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chocolate_cruller_doughnut.jpg)

This is a chocolate-covered cruller! :)

[Henry]

actually i speak British with a dixie dialog
so locals understand
Yall
H

[Henry]

and my deer chap i get 50%
who is running this a mexican
just not on
H

[Navy Chief]

60% General American English

15% Dixie

10% Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

Oh, if my sister in Indianapolis would see this, she would really razz me!

NC

[Henry]

one must understand a rubber is the thing on the end of a pencil
that yall call an eraser
just clarifying the english language
H

[wbuchart]

:icon_lol:<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>You Speak General American English!



</TD></TR><TR><TD>55% General American English

30% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

American by birth - Southern by the grace of God.....:icon_lol:


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[PRB]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Chocolate_cruller_doughnut.jpg/220px-Chocolate_cruller_doughnut.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chocolate_cruller_doughnut.jpg)

This is a chocolate-covered cruller! :)

Hmm, a serrated donut! Looks yummy.

[Cloud9Gal]

:icon_lol:<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>You Speak General American English!




</TD></TR><TR><TD>55% General American English

30% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

American by birth - Southern by the grace of God.....:icon_lol:



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wbuchart~ I absolutely LOVED that you wrote that! Awesome!! http://www.tiptopglobe.com/skin/smile/s12623.gif (http://www.tiptopglobe.com/free-smiles-smileys-emoticons-blog-forum-email)

[Cloud9Gal]

one must understand a rubber is the thing on the end of a pencil
that yall call an eraser
just clarifying the english language
H


Henry, Henry, Henry......really? A rubber? At the end of a pencil? *she scratches her head*

http://www.tiptopglobe.com/skin/smile/s11720.gif (http://www.tiptopglobe.com/free-smiles-smileys-emoticons-blog-forum-email)

So what's an eraser for you then?

[rpjkw]

55% General American English

20% Dixie

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

I was surprised Dixie was only 20%.

Bob

[jmig]

Since there was no selection for Cajun, I speak:

55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

[brad kaste]

.................100% Chicagoan..................(So I've been told by others).........

[CG_1976]

I don't speak any of those Dialects. I speak Canayank English. Thats Half Canadian and half Upper Midwest.

[Wing_Z]

I don't speak any kind of 'American' English....I speak the real thing! ;)

Well I thought I did, too!
But I scored 35% General American English!
Maybe we've been infiltrated more than we know.
On this topic, I wondered if I could ask all those who rhyme "route" with "out", when they go from here to there...
How do you say "route" when talking about what the Germans did to the English football team the other day?

[Henry]

W
On this topic, I wondered if I could ask all those who rhyme "route" with "out", when they go from here to there...

the brits
H

[Willy]

50% General American English

25% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

I think all those years in the Navy messed up my natural southern speech.

As for that easy class question, I just call them easy classes which wasn't an option.

[Cazzie]

40% General American English

30% Dixie

20% Yankee

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

The questions are too generalized for various regions of the country, there is no way anyone could be 100% one or the other. I don't speak Yankee at all and anyone who knows me, knows dang well I don't. This is a fluke quiz, there is nothing substantial about it. It is a joke, trust me, my German is more phonetically correct than my English! :>)

Caz

[Trans_23]

one must understand a rubber is the thing on the end of a pencil
that yall call an eraser
just clarifying the english language
H
Our high school foreign exchange student (senior year) was from England. First day of school he turned around to the girl sitting behind him and asked her for a rubber. I only wish I would have been there to see her reaction. :jawdrop:

[GT182]

You Speak General American English!

50% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

Ohhhh Henry..... a rubber goes on something that's a part of your anatomy. ;) An eraser is on the end of a pencil, opposite the pointy lead end.

[Moparmike]

You Speak General American English!

55% General American English

20% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern
The questions are rigged man! They need a whole lot more to get a true flavor of my speakage.

-A cruller? Nope...that's just a frilly doughnut to me. Up here we have longjohns, bismarcks, bear claws, apple fritters, and doughnuts. :)

-What day is wash day?
--Monday.
--You wash clothes?
--Every night after work.

-How do you greet your neighbor in the morning?
--Howdy?
--Good morning
--Hey ________! (insert your choice of expletive here)
--Wie gehts (Seriously...pass through south-central ND sometime and ask this one. More'n likely you'll hear "Alles gut" or "So gehts" in reply.)

-The evening meal is...
--supper
--dinner

-The noon meal is...
--lunch
--dinner
--a snack

-Do you know the difference between the cellar and the basement?

-What you call a u-turn while driving...
--a "you-ie"
--a ****hook
--"Oh _____, that was our turn-off!"

[Gramps]

<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>I'm with you Mopar, some of them answers I ain't ever heard before,LOL.





You Speak General American English!

</TD></TR><TR><TD>50% General American English

30% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[Kiwikat]

You Drink From:
A Water Fountain
A Drinking Fountain


Where's the "bubbler" option? :confused::confused::confused:



75% General American English

20% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Yankee

You betcha!

[tonybones2112]

I'm Appalachian-American, and speak thusly.

Bones

[HighGround22]

. . . As a child, we had breakfast, dinner, and supper, in that order. Now it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think it's a Northeast thing, but not sure.Well, "up here" in Canada, there's a similar dilemma. But as I understood it from my childhood, dinner was the big meal of the day. If you had it at noon (as we did in the Military) then dinner was at noon, so you had supper in the evening. And where most families have the big meal when everybody gets home from work/school, then it's lunch and dinner. But on a Saturday, it could be breakfast, lunch and supper, 'cause there's no "big meal".

So as retirees, it's not uncommon for my wife to announce that there'll be no dinner today, so I know it'll be a (smaller) lunch and supper.

In'erestin' . . . .

[Tako_Kichi]

Our high school foreign exchange student (senior year) was from England. First day of school he turned around to the girl sitting behind him and asked her for a rubber. I only wish I would have been there to see her reaction. :jawdrop:
LOL...reminds me of a true story from my life....just after I emigrated I was living with my soon-to-be in-laws and asked the lady of the house (my future M-i-L) if she would like me to 'lay the table ready for dinner'. I couldn't understand why she gave me a very strange look until my fiancée pointed out that in Canada they 'set' the table not 'lay' it! :isadizzy:

Prior to me emigrating I used to call my fiancée on the phone twice a week and about 3 weeks before I was due to leave she asked what I had been doing and I replied 'humping boxes' (a perfectly normal British phrase).....after she had stopped spluttering I had to explain that I had been carrying heavy boxes downstairs for hours as the international removal firm had been that day to collect the goods I was having sent over by sea.

[Milton Shupe]

Well, I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland/Delaware and was influenced by the local rural life and that of watermen. M R Ducks?

Then, in my Junior year of HS, moved to South Jersey ... humphfffff ... followed then by a move to the Appalacians at Coeburn VA. Then back to the Eastern Shore. Later moved to Texas with a bit of draw and Texan courtesy, then to New Mexico with influence by TexMex Spanglish. I am so screwed. LOL

[PeteHam]

35% General American English

35% Yankee

25% <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place>Dixie</st1:place>

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern
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Plus a decent dose of Kiwi mixed with some Canadian slang :icon_lol:

Pete.

[crashaz]

<TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>You Speak General American English!

</TD></TR><TR><TD>65% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern


That's how citizens from the proud state ofArizona speak. :wavey:
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[OBIO]

That test is so bogus. Must have been developed by some snooty fella from New England or somesuchplace. There were questions on there that I could not answer correctly because they didn't even look in the right dictionary to find the words that I use.

Question 2: What do you call the night before Halloween?

Beggar's Night

Question 9: What do you call that roundy round traffic thing (not exactly how the question was phrased, but close enough)?

I don't call it anything, as I have NEVER SEEN ONE OF THOSE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Heck, the place I grew up in had more roads that were dirt or gravel than were paved. And where I live now, there are more potholes than pavement. There ain't none of those roundy round traffic things.

Question 10: What do you call an easy class?

A Cake Walk or A Breezer

Question 11: If it's raining while the sun shines?

I don't call it a thing other than a prediction of rain the following day.

Question 16: How do I say the second letter in pajamas?

I don't say pajamas, I say jamas or jamies.

Now, if this test is going to be a real test of one's dialect, it needs to be made much more encompassing and indepth.

OBIO

Oh, the results that I got from taking the test and being forced to say things that I don't normally say:

50% General American English

20% Dixie

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

[mfitch]

The responses are much more interesting than the quiz. By nature these quizzes are simplistic, but the details coming out are fun to read.

I agree with the many comments about a need for more options. Route is pronounced both ways depending on the moment. I have never taken an easy class: if it is easy, work harder (disclaimer: I am a professional educator and student).

Not in the quiz but also ambiguous for me are the pronunciation of "cyclic" (cyc like sick or psych) and corollary (stress on first or second syllable). I had faculty from South Africa (trained in Birmingham, England), multi-citizenship Britain-Canada-USA, as well as US from all over.

The most amusing story was a lecture on public key cryptography by a Chinese professor trained in Canada. As is common with (some region?) of China, the 'l' is not pronounced and he would sometimes drop it when writing "public" as well.

[ananda]

Who puts toilet paper on their front lawn :rolleyes:

George

[lefty]

LOL! I have to admit, I do love the British Accent :)


Well I just wonder what C9G means by that ? Hugh Grant (I'll bet :rolleyes:), or Sean Connery, or Ringo Starr ??
We have just as many regional variations as you guys - when I come to the States I am accused of being Canadian !

Och aye the noo ? (Never heard anyone say that in my life.......)

[NSS]

I actually speak English, English.

BUT

40% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern


:redf:

[Willy]

As a child, we had breakfast, dinner, and supper, in that order.

Here in rural Tennessee and where I was raised down in SW Arkansas, we still have breakfast, dinner and supper. When they said lunch in bootcamp, I didn't have a clue what they were talking about. I was ready for dinner.

[JoeW]

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<table width="100%"><tbody><tr> <td> You Speak General American English!

</td> </tr> <tr> <td> 65% General American English

25% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

0% Yankee </td></tr></tbody></table>

[Clarke123]

LOL! I have to admit, I do love the British Accent :)
You've never heard a geordie or a scouser then. :mixedsmi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHHbfY6MVc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRkkVQ6OSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBYlXfjKru4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qamVB4ixxGs&feature=related

[Dain Arns]

Who puts toilet paper on their front lawn :rolleyes:

George

Well, it's a time honored 'activity' of American youth, showing 'affection' for a neighbor, or a friend. :icon_lol:

I had to work as I was going through College.
Our store manager bought a brand new Firebird.
He threatened us not to touch it or go near it.
Ever.

Of course we saw it parked over at his girlfriend's house on the street.
We were all out on the town after work, and technically covering it in TP isn't touching, it's protecting it.
I'm thinking the beer made us come to that brilliant conclusion.
Anyway it ended wrapped up rather tight, like a Christmas present.

He wasn't happy the next day ... :icon_lol:




Oh, by the way...

Mostly General American English with emphasis on Upper Midwestern doncha know... :d
(I pretty much blame living in South Dakota for a decade for that result.)

[txnetcop]

You Speak General American English!
40% General American English

35% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Midwestern

I don't know how that damn Yankee stuff got in there...North Carolina by birth Texan by choice! LOL

[Henry]

You've never heard a geordie or a scouser then. :mixedsmi:

thats up north
they do talk funny up there
i remember when i got married my wife who is American
and i had a couple of geordie drinking buddies
she had to be drunk to understand them:ernae:
LOL
H

[Odie]

Dixie with a spattering of Texican (I'm fixin' to go down to the store). Living up here in the North, I'm often told that I have an accent, although my family has never mentioned it !! :icon_lol:

[Bjoern]

You Speak General American English!

50% General American English

30% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

So I guess everyone can understand me anywhere...

[NWarty]

I'm still a displaced Southerner :D

65% General American English

25% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

[SpitXIV]

I grew up in Casper Wyoming, so I guess I speak upper northwestern. I was at my late
grandmothers place in Vegas one time and her friend walks in and Plants a kiss on me and
Says "I love your Accent" After my shock I think I said thank you. She was in her 30's.

[Quixoticish]

I speak British English shaped by the various places I have lived in the UK but I thought I'd have a crack at the test. There were a few questions where I was left with no answer though. No expression for an easy class was listed, and it's a shopping trolley. I also work out in trainers, but apart from that it was fairly straightforward.
You Speak General American English!

40% General American English

40% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern