Your Linguistic Profile: |
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85% General American English |
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10% Upper Midwestern |
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5% Midwestern |
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0% Dixie |
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0% Yankee |
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the tragical and comical episodes of (yet) another american in paris.
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- pride & prejudice. jane austen.
- persuasion. jane austen.
- fluke, or, i know why the winged whale sings. christopher moore.
- issue #18. buffy season 8.
- mary shelley and the curse of frankenstein: the monsters. dorothy & thomas hoobler.
- time of your life. part 1&2. buffy season 8.
- memoires of a geisha. arthur golden.
- tale of the body thief. anne rice.
- wicked. gregory macguire.
- son of a witch. gregory macguire.
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5 comments:
Hmmm, this is good timing I was just talking to someone about the different regions int he US and how the English can vary. I'm from Kansas and here are my results:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
Glad to see that Kitty Corner made it there I use that all the freaking time and all my friends from the East Coast totally make fun of me for it.
Dixie and Yankeeness, have no clue where that came from.
85% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
There should have been another option for "water fountain." I'm from Milwaukee, and we call it a "bubbler."
60% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Dude I can't believe I don't speak any Frenglish at all...
Is this test exhaustive? :rolleyes:
I don't know where the Dixie came from!
60% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
50% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Looks like those Yanks didn't have too much of an impact on me. ...And to think that I thought I spoke Wall Street English!
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