| Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 50% General American English |
| 35% Dixie |
| 10% Yankee |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
I prefer to think of myself as at least 75% Dixie. Yeah, yeah -- enough years of working with people from all over have tempered my accent to a degree, but at heart I'm Dixie to the core.
Right, y'all?
3 comments:
I'm surprised my "Dixie" level was just 35%. I don't understand, but I'm afraid my voice and mannerisms are getting more and more bumpkin-esque as I get older.
Having a little "Yankee" vein isn't the end of the world; what I have nightmares about is waking up and finding that I really sound like I grew up in central Michigan. Yeeeeeeeeesh. That "upper midwest" accent makes my eardrums break out in hives.
-TG
"what I have nightmares about is waking up and finding that I really sound like I grew up in central Michigan"
....and on a never-ending quest for the elusive "damned ice machine".....
-Seraphim "Talmadge was NOT lying about HER, was he Nettie?" Gleck
No indeedy -- he was NOT lying!!!!
I have been told that I have certain inflections - rare, but there - that are reminiscent of Chicago. Sonuvadamndog, I know exactly how I picked that up too.....
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