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May 19, 2006
Color Me Surprised
| Your Linguistic Profile:: |
| 65% General American English |
| 15% Dixie |
| 10% Yankee |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 0% Midwestern |
Considering I spent 20+ years in Kansas (Midwest) and have been in New Hampshire (Yankee) for 19 years, one would think that I would have more than 0% Midwestern and 10% Yankee speech!
Thanks to Deb, over at Accidental Verbosity for pointing out this quiz.
Spoilers below:
#6 - Now someone really messed that up by not adding the term "Bubbler" as the people around here call it!
#10 - I had to just pick one as I never had (or heard of) a term for this while I was in school.
Posted by Bogie on May 19, 2006 at 07:22 AM in Quiz | Permalink
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Am I boinkers? Or have you previously posted results and a link to a similar quiz? Too sleepy to take it just now, at any rate. Gotta be at breakfast with my fellow-ombudsmen in 45 minutes. (This is our annual convention--this year, at the Marriott in Wichita. Obviously, our convention functions ran too late, last night.)
Posted by: Cop Car at May 19, 2006 7:32:21 AM
I believe I have posted a similar quiz. That was several years ago, so I decided to see if there was any update to the way I talk.
Actually, after going thru the quiz catagory, I can't find anything like this. Of course there are several that don't have functioning links anymore, so maybe it was one of them.
Posted by: bogie at May 20, 2006 6:40:04 AM
Hmmmm.....Considering I have lived all my life (less 1 year) in Ks, I'm a little confused!
55% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Posted by: Dudette at May 22, 2006 6:09:41 PM
Dudette--You obviously picked up some strange speech patterns from your Paternal Unit. *snickering*
Posted by: Cop Car at May 22, 2006 11:14:41 PM
Your Linguistic Profile::60% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Posted by: Cop Car at May 22, 2006 11:19:59 PM
Dudette - That paternal unit has us both all messed up!
Posted by: bogie at May 25, 2006 3:31:23 AM
Bogie--You and Dudette are just lucky that your paternal unit didn't teach you Serbo-Croatian!! For that, though, he would first have had to learn it. Mom & Pop used it at the drug store when they wanted to converse, privately, but they didn't want the kids to use it. They wanted the kids to "be" Americans. (Pop said that, if he wanted his kids to be Yugoslavian, he would take them back to the Old Country!) Babu Tetu and Babu Corner, of course, preferred to speak S-C; and, I never saw either of them write in English.
I recall one time when I was helping Pop inventory the drug store (Christmas-time 1958--so that your aunt could go to a party with her then-beau). Pop, glancing out the window, made a comment in S-C. "It surely is!" I replied--much to his amazement. (He had said that it was snowing.) By then, and coupled with my meager knowledge of German, I was beginning to pick up on what he and Mom were saying. (We had lived with Mom, Pop, and your aunts during the summer of 1958 when our promised summer jobs with Pittsburgh Plate Glass evaporated due to a down-turn in the economy. This had given me some exposure to the language.)
Posted by: Cop Car at May 25, 2006 10:25:13 AM
