Well that was about what I was expecting

[gray_ghost]

Actually I lied a little. I grew up calling Coke "soder pop" but quickly changed my ways once I moved out to California. Just like couches are no longer davenports to me. And Suisse Mocha - pronounced it Sussy Mocha until I was 10. My mom still pronounces it that way.

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Dixie

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Comments

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

Davenports? Oh man! I've not used that term in ages! My mom still uses it on occasion. My problem with that test is that I use so many words so interchangably, that I couldn't even think of which I used the most.

Where are you from (pre-CA), btw?

~e!

I am from Iowa originally

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

Around the area of Sioux City. Also known as "SOOOOOEEEEEE" City (you know...like when you call hogs =) ). Sioux City is famous far and wide for it's wonderful smelling slaughter houses.

Anyway, we moved to California when I was 14....because my dad got laid off from work and my mom couldn't find a nursing job that paid more than 7/hr in any of the small towns. I think that's part of reason I have negative view of Iowa. California treated my family much better =)

[katekat]

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

It's a very interesting test though, because it doesn't distinguish between Californian and "General American English" and, although it's probably closer to the general, because of the whole movie business, I think there are still differences. And what about NewYorker? Is their linguistic profile yankee? (those are rhetorical questions, btw, unless you happen to know then answers).