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I Don't Have An Accent, Either

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% Yankee

40% General American English

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

For the record, my answer to question 2 is properly "goosie night" and my answer to question 10 is actually "a flake class." Those, however, were not options, so I went with the thing I was next most likely to say.

Comments (8)

Jeni G:

I believe #2 should be "cabbage night."

Rich:

I have to agree with Jay. Question 2 is goosie night.

However, question 10 would be "Mickey Mouse class" for me.

Aaron:

Survery Says...

Definitely goosey night. I agree with Jay and Rich.

Jason:

Cabbage night is a sort of second choice. But goosie night is #1.

Mickey Mouse class is a good one - I don't think I've ever used it, but I heard it a lot at school.

Bard:

"Bird course" is what we use up here in northern, frozen Drakanada (aka Toronto).

gus:

he he he don't know how to interpret my results since english ain't my native tongue.

55% General American English

30% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

Jason:

Makes sense to me, Gus. I figure most people who learn English as a second language are learning mostly General American. (Unless they're learning English through exposure, having moved to the mid-west or something.) I can't explain the Yankee-ness, other than that our (i.e. Yankee) phrasing is more wide-spread than the rest because of tv.

Adi:

I have the same results as Gus.

I didn't notice any ebonics type answers.

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