What kind of American English do you speak?

[countinguy]

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
10% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[smurphy]

What, no Ebonics factor??!!! A flawed survey.

55% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

kiddy and caddy corner are just plain wrong!

 

[smurphy]

i just noticed that mine doesn't add up to 100%....probably missed one question.

that happened to me too, i skipped the one for a term meaning easy class. none of them made sense.

 

[taoist]

kiddy and caddy corner are just plain wrong!

...if you've never heard of caddy corner, then I guess it's safe to assume that the real term that should have been on there, but wasn't will be alien to you also....

...real southerners use the term "caddy-whompus"

 

[Big Daddy]

Your Linguistic Profile:
80% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee

 

[lay the wood2]

50% General American English
30% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[bjfinste]

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

I think my five percent Dixie came from the "ya'll" question after I picked that up living in Texas.

 

[kosar]

I think my five percent Dixie came from the "ya'll" question after I picked that up living in Texas.

Same here as part of my 15% dixie from when I lived in Kentucky for 2 yrs and Georgia for 1yr in the late 80's/early 90's. I still say it sometimes.

 

[CryBoy]

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[aubie]

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee

 

[2muchchalk]

50% General American English
40% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

 

[ceciol]

Your Linguistic Profile:
50% Yankee
45% General American English
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[MrChristo]

8. Do you use the word cruller?

No
Yes

What does that even mean?? :shrug:

 

[GM]

A cruller is like a sugary doughnut. I had to think about that one. I might use that word, but I don't use it often. There's no other word I would substitute for it that I can think of though.

 

[Box and one]

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

the 10% dixie has to be from my wife who is a Texan.I'll have her do the test tomr.
see ya'll...opps see youse guys...

 

[repoman]

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Not bad. Makes sense too.

 

[Fortune Cookies]

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[TJBELL]

Your Linguistic Profile:
45% General American English
45% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

 

[buddy]

8. Do you use the word cruller?

Who is cruller to BeantownJim? His wife or his neighbor?