What Kind Of American English Do You Speak??

75% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee

That pretty much sums up where i'm originally from. Even though I've been in the south for over 5 years now, this pretty much shows that I've stuck to my roots(rhymes close to stew), and even though I've gotten used to saying "soda" down here I welcome the word "pop"
 
I got 50-30-5-5-0 with a couple of no answers, and a few where I needed to say "any of them".
I speak southern Ontario, with a few archaisms from my father (the last man in Ontario that pronounces "clerk" as "clark"), a bit of Scottish from my mother (what do you call the grating over a sewer? a siver or seiver?) and a touvh of Ottawa Valley.

Somewhere I have a passage that customs agents used to use to separate the Canadians from the Americans.
 
I found it strange that there was no "Redneck" English.

I was 65 general, 35 Yankee, 5 upper midwest. I must say though that I had to use second and thrid choices for some of the questions as my normal deployment of wording was not available as an answer.
 
Will_annand said:
Hey now, Andy, don't you cut up Tim Horton, I met him once. He was a great hockey player, on the last winning team Tronna had. Until he tried to move that bridge with his car.
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Hey,

Nothing against ol' Tim... My wife suggested on the weekend that she might try the new coffe shop opening in town, instead of The Horton's...

"Traitor!!", I yelled. "And you call yourself Canajun?!"

:D:D:D:D

Andrew
 
55% General American
25% Yankee
10%Dixie
5% Midwestren
5%Upper Midwestren

Not bad considering that I was raised in NJ, moved to MN as a teen, spent 20 years in the Army serving in Ks 3 times, Tx once, Ky once, Korea once, Germany 3 times with a few "side trips" to strange and exocit places.
 
55% General American English
40% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I was born and raised in Roanoke, VA., and then moved to Greensboro, NC. The percentages work out just about right for time spent in VA (55%) and time spent in NC (40%). Don't know where the Yankee came from. . .
 
Personaly, I dont speak any kind of american english, I speak my own butcherd australian called ....ocka....but I think certain members of the gauge are trying to convert me to speaking/ frazing, some kind off american broage....sign1 sign1 sign1
 
I am also an Australian but I steer clear away from "Ocka" . Give me 4 to 6 weeks traveling around the good old U.S.A. and I will come with an accent, ask my family, it happened 28 years ago. I think that in the main you Americans pronounce your words a little more accurately than the English way.
Tom.S
 
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