Thursday, May 26, 2005

English Quiz

This is an amusing one, especially if you're British! It tests to see what proportion of various American dialects are prevalent in your speech.

American English Test

Here's how mine came out:



Your Linguistic Profile:



55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern




Guess I'm a bit of a mutt, in that my mom is from PA, my father from VA, I was born in DC, but moved to Long Island, NY, when I was 2, then back to VA when I was about 8, then went to school in MD and university in NJ, followed by 14 years in CA, and 7 years now overseas--5 in the UK--before marrying a man from TX and OK! Phew! Just not sure where the "Upper Midwestern" came from....? Maybe the few years my father spent as a child in MI??