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[trochee]

Your Linguistic Profile:

40% General American English

30% Yankee

25% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I'm skeptical. But the numbers are reasonable enough. Somebody asked "what's 'General American' mean?" and my guess is some combination of Western Coasts (with California cities as the canonical example) and "CNN/NPR" English (Eastern city-dwellers (New York, Boston, Atlanta, DC) who haven't lived in those cities their whole lives.

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[writeanya.livejournal.com]

i suspect the Cali influence supposition here must hold true, as i'm third generation californian, and i rated a 75% in the "general american" category. and, i confess, i'm an npr-listening, news-magazine reading, tv-avoiding, college-educated, can't-we-all-get-along kinda liberal.

that surely plays into it, no? *giggle*

dad's from the midwest, and so i get a little of that midwest influence (10%) in there, too.

can't wait to learn more about real linguistics when i come up to visit you all. yay! two weeks.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh, you probably think "caught" and "cot" are homophones, too.

Western coast and NPR liberal college educated are closely linked dialects right now.

would love to talk linguistics -- or at least linguisti-sparkly-bits -- with you.

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Dixie

10% Midwestern

10% Yankee

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

you and i have the same Dixie!

[chachachana.livejournal.com]

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

25% Dixie

10% Midwestern

5% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

I want more Dixie! ;)

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?