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50% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

Yeah, I had the same problem, where a couple questions didn't have the correct answer listed. But what can you do? I'm from the DC area, where we don't really have accents, and I pick them up pretty quick.
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70% General American English

15% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern


Funny it is so little for upper Midwestern, as I was bred and buttered in Kansas.
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75% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Dixie

0% Midwestern

Hm. Surprised to see so little in Upper Midwestern and Midwestern, since I've never lived outside of Wisconsin.

Oh, and the drinking fountain/ water foutain didn't have enough options. Those things are called bubblers! :biggrin: :lol:
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Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

Hunh. Musta been that question about "y'all" that made me score so high on Dixie.

The only question that didn't have a proper answer was the one about an easy class. I picked "gut" but that's not what we used to call it when I was in college (and now, of course, owing to my advanced age :roll: , I've had a brain fart and can't remember what it was...).
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Mortice Root wrote:Oh, and the drinking fountain/ water foutain didn't have enough options. Those things are called bubblers! :biggrin: :lol:
They definitely are! Anyone who says different isn't getting a drink of water. :P
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60% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern

I believe that the website threw in the Dixie because it heard my slight southern accent.
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45% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie (probably 'cause I like to say y'all :P )

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern
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Tried it again, after a year and a half...same results..yet I didn't like this question:
What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point?

-Rotary
-Something else like a circle, traffic circle, or roundabout
Becasue, a traffic circle, is DIFFERNT from a rotary....a rotary doesn't have to be a circle, it can be a complex combination of circle...whereas a traffic circle, or roundabout IS a circle.


And this one:
"Route" rhymes with...
-Boot
-Out
I Rhyme Route with Boot...but I also Rhyme Out with Oat.
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45% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

15% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

ayeup, that sounds about right. Between my Long Guylands and y'alls...
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Hah, I remember now! We called easy courses "pud" courses. (Yes, I know, nobody cares. Just pat me on the head and send me to my room now....)
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50% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

Which is interesting, being as I'm from the UK. :P
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75% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

Pretty good description I guess, although I wonder what they're considering Midwest ...
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A Gunslinger wrote:What the sam hill is "King's English"? Sounds verrrry proper!
You know, like the English King Daniel Southerland was spouting when he pushed the Holy Launch Button, thusly informing his humble subjects that Southerland Castle was indeed a spaceship..
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dANdeLION wrote:
A Gunslinger wrote:What the sam hill is "King's English"? Sounds verrrry proper!
You know, like the English King Daniel Southerland was spouting when he pushed the Holy Launch Button, thusly informing his humble subjects that Southerland Castle was indeed a spaceship..
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