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What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Topic Started: Mar 20 2008, 01:32 PM (125 Views)
Bearistotle and Hebert
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Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

30% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofameric...doyouspeakquiz/
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Murray the evil skull
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50% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern


WhaT???? no Yinzer option? Whats up with that!!! I'm going to have ta go dahntahn and give a talking to the jagoffs who came up with this quiz. :lol:
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NewTexas
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60% General American English<br />
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20% Dixie<br />
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10% Yankee<br />
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5% Midwestern<br />
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0% Upper Midwestern
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:sterb

<commits Hari Kari over shame of speaking 10% Yank>
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Bearistotle and Hebert
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Murray the evil skull,Mar 20 2008
01:52 PM
50% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern


WhaT???? no Yinzer option? Whats up with that!!! I'm going to have ta go dahntahn and give a talking to the jagoffs who came up with this quiz. :lol:

What's a Yinzer?
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Darth Kermit
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45% Dixie<br />
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30% General American English<br />
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15% Yankee<br />
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5% Midwestern<br />
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0% Upper Midwestern
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Got no idea where that 15% yankee came from. Been no yankees in the family since before the War of Northern Aggression!
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Darth Kermit,Mar 20 2008
05:35 PM


Got no idea where that 15% yankee came from.  Been no yankees in the family since before the War of Northern Aggression!

At the risk of being thrown out on the curb, might I remind you I was born in New York state?
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Bearistotle and Hebert,Mar 20 2008
06:14 PM
Darth Kermit,Mar 20 2008
05:35 PM


Got no idea where that 15% yankee came from.  Been no yankees in the family since before the War of Northern Aggression!

At the risk of being thrown out on the curb, might I remind you I was born in New York state?

But Bearies! That was only cuz Sherman burned your family's plantation home!

You're a true southern belle, he was a &@#% arsonist!

(And you had less yankee in your results than me) :lol:
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F799
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60% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern
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Crazy Hell for War
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50% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

0% Midwestern
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Dantous
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70% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern
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Murray the evil skull
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Bearistotle and Hebert,Mar 20 2008
02:50 PM
Murray the evil skull,Mar 20 2008
01:52 PM
50% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern


WhaT???? no Yinzer option? Whats up with that!!! I'm going to have ta go dahntahn and give a talking to the jagoffs who came up with this quiz. :lol:

What's a Yinzer?

A speaker of Pittsburghese. Yinz or Yunz is our substitute for Y'all or more properly the pluarl form of You.

Pittsburghese Spoken Here!
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