No Fancy Name
Saturday, April 16, 2005
that thar linguistic profile quiz
Your Linguistic Profile
55% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

[via many people]

To answer Mel's additional questions:
- does motorcycle rhyme with "sickle"? no...
- which syllable of "cement" gets stressed? the second
- when you turn on a light switch, do you say that you "flip", "mash" or "burn" it? flip, but to turn off it's "outen" which is PA Dutch
- what do you call the playground equipment that is a plank balanced on a stand: see-saw or teeter-totter? see-saw

And as proof to my friends here in California that I am not insane, Dr. M says in a comment to Mel's post: "A rubber band in Pittsburgh is a gumband." YES IT IS. IT IS. STOP MAKING FUN OF ME.

UPDATE: My buddy says, "gumwhatever. if you don't chew it, it ain't a gumband." Pleh on her.





 



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