Me and my English

Your Linguistic Profile::

55% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Thanks to Curb Girl for this.

The results are a little skewed but so am I.

- I grew up saying "pop" but have since taken to calling sweet carbonated beverages "soda".

- I've never pronounced "aunt" to sound like "ant" although that is the prevailing pronounciation where I grew up (and I took much ribbing on account of it).

- I think of "the sweet spread on top of cake" as frosting, but the I'd never swap it out in the expression/cliche, "...the icing on the cake."

- I never called an easy class a crip course, a gut, or a blow off. I called it an easy class (and believe me, there weren't that many). When I moved to Missouri for college, I noticed that people referred to low-level classes as "bonehead" classes.

- "Y'all" doesn't trip off my tongue, but I think that English is much in need of a second-person plural.

- I suspect my 5% Yankee is just pretentiousness.

- Finally, what does "Midwestern" sound like?