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[darkluna]

How did that upper midwest sneak in?

Your Linguistic Profile:

40% General American English

30% Yankee

20% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I'd never been north of North Carolina until age 15, so OK with the Dixie. It was the "y'all" and "coke" that earned it, I'm sure. People not from the south always refuse to believe me when I say "coke" is generic. I lived in Providence and Boston long enough that I say Nomah and Woostah and know that a cabinet isn't always storage space. I've caught what I call The Ohio Construction from my evil twin (where you leave off the "to be" after "need": I can't buy that vibrator; it needs plugged in and my bedroom's outlet is inconvenient). Upper midwest? A mystery.

It may be the test's way of saying that my mix of English is actually 40% standard, 30% Yankee, 20% Dixie, and 10% Spent Her Formative Years Reading Instead of Socializing. Or the 10% is whatever it is that makes people ask me pretty often if I'm British. Some kind of earnest semi-formality or something, you betcha.

I wonder why there was nothing about the great chocolate sprinkles/chocolate shots/jimmies linguistic divergence?

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I think Ohio's the southern part of the upper midwest. I had a bit of that on my results, too, which seemed weird, since Wichita, KS is the most north I've lived in. But the linguists on my list say it's not a very good test.

[hochopepa.livejournal.com]

People keep asking me if I'm an attorney. Apparently they have their own dialect of linguistic precision, and experience abject confusion if you say something slightly ambiguous.