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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:54 am
by magickmaker17
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.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:15 pm
by Cagliostro
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.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:27 pm
by Mortice Root
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!
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:42 am
by aliantha
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
, I've had a brain fart and can't remember what it was...).
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:54 am
by Auleliel
Mortice Root wrote:Oh, and the drinking fountain/ water foutain didn't have enough options. Those things are called bubblers!
They definitely are! Anyone who says different isn't getting a drink of water.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:54 pm
by Cheval
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.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:33 pm
by danlo
45% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie (probably 'cause I like to say y'all
)
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 8:39 pm
by drew
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.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 8:58 pm
by Menolly
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...
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:10 am
by aliantha
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....)
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:50 am
by Mysteweave
50% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Which is interesting, being as I'm from the UK.
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:48 am
by Coercri
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 ...
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:32 pm
by dANdeLION
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..
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:41 pm
by Menolly
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..
hahahahaha!!!
*wicked grin*