Dialect Test

topic posted Wed, May 11, 2005 - 6:15 PM by 
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This is how I speak:
50% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
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  • Re: Dialect Test

    Sat, May 14, 2005 - 7:03 PM
    Your Linguistic Profile:
    60% General American English
    15% Dixie
    15% Upper Midwestern
    10% Yankee
    0% Midwestern
  • Re: Dialect Test

    Sun, May 15, 2005 - 8:10 AM
    50% General American English
    20% Yankee
    15% Dixie
    10% Upper Midwestern
    5% Midwestern

    whoo hoo y'all!!
    • Re: Dialect Test

      Tue, May 17, 2005 - 9:20 PM
      70% General American English
      20% Yankee
      5% Dixie
      5% Midwestern
      0% Upper Midwestern

      I'm surprised at how standard my speech apparently is. But I'll whoo hoo all y'all anyway.
  • Re: Dialect Test

    Wed, June 22, 2005 - 9:22 PM
    hey y'all,
    what a great tribe - this is pretty interesting to me since i've been living abroad a while.
    i got:
    70% General American English
    15% Dixie
    10% Midwestern
    5% Upper Midwestern
    0% Yankee

    i apparently picked up an accent being gone 4 years- according to my friends. but i kicked that fast and am back to sayin y'all an geterdun mixed with some wierd south african slang. glad to find a place i can write and be understood.
    thanx y'all.
    1 luv, t.

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