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60% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

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45% General American English

30% Yankee

20% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

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50% General Amrican English

25% Yankee

10% Midwestern

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

 

Interesting. I have Yankee roots that go way back, have lived in the upper Midwest most all my life but have no Dixie connection that I know of.

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60% general american english

20% upper midwestern

10% dixie

10% yankee

0% midwestern

 

ya 'all think this is a real test

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Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

25% Dixie

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

 

 

I've lived in the State of Georgia, the deep south, all of my life. And my dad lived in Ohio for many years, so this is very accurate. Since I live in Dixie, it's natural to have a high Dixie, but I'm not as bad with slang like a lot of people I personally know are. lol :blink:

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70% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

 

 

LOL, hey this works for me. Except :blink: why the Dixie score????

ok, ok.. no offense was meant by that. I was born and raised(for the most part) here in Florida, but majority of my family is from the North and upper midwest .

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:lol: :blink:

 

45% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

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65% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

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I did it twice because there were a couple of the words or terms that I use both depending on the context of the sentence. The first time I did it i got this:

 

70% General American English

25% Dixie

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

 

The second time I did it with only 1 or 2 changes to account for those phrases or words that I use both ways I got this:

 

65% General American English

25% Dixie

10% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

 

I can accept either one, I was born and raised in Maryland which is the northern most state south of the Mason Dixon line and I now live in Virginia which was the capitol of the south so 25% Dixie seems about right and 5 to 10% Yankee seems about right too because I didn't live too far north to pick up any of the northern influences and I've never even set foot in the Midwest or Upper Midwest so 0% for those is right too. and 65 to 70% general English seems about right because the places I've lived in my lifetime have had people from all parts of the country so my linguistic influences have been from all parts of the US which fits in with being "General American English".

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Interesting. I'm from California, and lived in Texas for 4 years, and in Long Island for about 1 1/2 years.

 

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

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70% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

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60% General American English

35% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

Just to note to everyone here that people in the Pacific Northwest are know for speaking and using English langauage as it is showen it texts books. That means they use liitle or no slang, ascents, or any other form of language use that might change the meaning or sound of a give word.

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40% General American English

35% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

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Come on Mike Fess up

Yaall wana come on over have a brewski while we alls roast the hog

you can chase the yougins around have you alls a fine time.

:blink:

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70% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

 

 

I grew up in southern california, so we say things normally :blink:

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they should've had a catagory for "Bostonese" liek do you pronounce your ahs ers and ers ahs and do you call the drinking fountain a bubbler. They sooo do not speak English here! :blink:

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Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English

35% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

 

I am English I speak the Queens English damn it.

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Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

 

 

I grew up in southern california, so we say things normally  :lol:

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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!!!

 

Right on!!

 

Awesome!!

 

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My Linguistic Profile considering i'm a Canadian and all!

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45% Yankee

40% General American English

10% Upper MidWestern

5% Dixie

0% Mid Western

 

:blink: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Come on Mike Fess up

Yaall wana come on over have a brewski while we alls roast the hog

you can chase the yougins around have you alls a fine time.

:rolleyes:

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Hey, Odo, Ya din't bring yer truck wichyadidja? Oh, and Poppyseed me out back smokin' yesterday, boy I tell ya he was madder than a red head at a Baywatch convention, I tell you what.

 

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

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Come on Mike Fess up

Yaall wana come on over have a brewski while we alls roast the hog

you can chase the yougins around have you alls a fine time.

:rolleyes:

318530[/snapback]

 

 

Hey, Odo, Ya din't bring yer truck wichyadidja? Oh, and Poppyseed me out back smokin' yesterday, boy I tell ya he was madder than a red head at a Baywatch convention, I tell you what.

 

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

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Would youins quite talkin' like that? I do declare...

 

Your Linguistic Profile:

35% Yankee

20% Dixie

20% Upper Midwestern

15% General American English

10% Midwestern

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65% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

 

I grew up in the South, and now I live in the Midwest, and yet this makes sense knowing my family. :yahoo:

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