Your Linguistic Profile: |
65% General American English |
25% Dixie |
5% Midwestern |
5% Yankee |
0% Upper Midwestern |
Since I've moved around a lot, this probably isn't that far from the truth. And I tried to answer by what I actually say, rather than what I heard growing up. American linguistic variation is actually something I'm quite interested in. I would've added a few more questions to the quiz, though:
- does motorcycle rhyme with "sickle"?
- which syllable of "cement" gets stressed?
- when you turn on a light switch, do you say that you "flip", "mash" or "burn" it?
- what do you call the playground equipment that is a plank balanced on a stand: see-saw or teeter-totter?
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