Posted January 3, 200619 yr http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/ Here are my answers: 60% General American English 40% Yankee :) 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern I don't want to find anyone using the word "pop". That is to be stricken from your vocabulary!
January 3, 200619 yr ...sorry, I was raised a "pop" person... Your Linguistic Profile: 75% General American English 10% Yankee 5% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern
January 3, 200619 yr It's pop to me as well... 80% General American English 10% Yankee 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Dixie
January 3, 200619 yr Everyone who calls it soda should change! Your Linguistic Profile: 85% General American English 5% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Yankee
January 3, 200619 yr Your Linguistic Profile: 80% General American English 5% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee Viva la Pop!!
January 3, 200619 yr 55% General American English 35% Yankee 10% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern It's soda, dammit! "Pop" is the probably single worst thing about Ohio. (On this board, Monte and I may be alone in this conviction.) I think "pop" is the only thing giving some of you guys the 5% Midwestern score. I wonder what else you have to say in order to speak Midwestern.
January 3, 200619 yr 85% General American English 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Dixie [Edit] I did something wrong, I guess Fixed - montecarloss
January 3, 200619 yr 75% General American English 10% Dixie 10% Yankee 5% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern
January 3, 200619 yr No, its pop. I don't mind, and sometimes say soda, but I defiently hate coke. 35% General American English 35% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Midwestern 10% Upper Midwestern
January 3, 200619 yr I use pop & soda interchangebaly..more soda I think, than pop.... 85% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern ....guess that Chicago backround is showing with the 10% upper midwestern...
January 3, 200619 yr The poll is somewhat skewed since majority of the African-American population has similar linguistincs in this country and chances are, it's going to be skewed towards the "Dixie" card, sans Harlem/Bronx/Brooklyn/Boston African-Americans. But for me... 70% General American English 20% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Upper Midwestern "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 4, 200619 yr 70% General American English 20% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Upper Midwestern
January 4, 200619 yr ... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 4, 200619 yr :-D That was fun Your Linguistic Profile: 70% General American English 10% Midwestern 10% Yankee 5% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern
January 4, 200619 yr Your Linguistic Profile: 75% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Yankee
January 4, 200619 yr 80% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 5% Midwestern 0% Yankee its gotta be pop because if it wasn't pop then you couldn't have Faygo Red Pop....duh
January 4, 200619 yr What is giving everyone 5% "Dixie"? Rich lives in NKY so it is obvious what his excuse is... ;)
January 5, 200619 yr Another good question for the test Do you wash clothes or warsh clothes LOL Here are my results Your Linguistic Profile: 90% General American English 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Dixie 0% Yankee
January 5, 200619 yr me: 80% General American English 15% Upper midwestern 5% Midwestern 0% Dixie 0% Yankee
January 5, 200619 yr preservationrestoratio, since you asked: I "wash" my clothes not "warsh" My shoes are "sneakers" not 'gym shoes" I drink "soda" not "pop" I eat "cold cuts" not "lunch meat" I say "curse" words not "cuss" words I say "water fountain" not a "drinking fountain" I say "you guys" not "Florence Ya'll" Did I cover them all?
January 5, 200619 yr ^ Umm did you really have to type all those curse words? Some of us check this at work. There goes my proxy, I should get a phone call any time now. BTW, there is a difference between "vernacular" and "slang". Lets keep this topic to venacular.
January 5, 200619 yr Here is mine: 75% General American English 15% Dixie (You guys aren't going to kick me off the board are you?) 5% Midwestern 5% Upper-Midwestern 0% Yankee
January 5, 200619 yr As a life-long resident of northeast Ohio (first Youngstown area, now Cleveland) I find this hard to believe. :wtf: 55% General American English 25% Yankee 10% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern And C-Dawg, I agree with montecarloss - this is the Urban Ohio forum where we have a little decorum. Watch your f#cking mouth! :whip: :-D clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
January 6, 200619 yr Up in Toledo, saying "warshed" at school could get you banished. I also have noticed I say "audio" different from people in southern Ohio. I only say "cuss" (and "custy" as that's a slang term where I'm from). "Cursing" is for damnings. The only time I've heard "warshed" is in Pennsylvania, ironically. And I don't know about SouthEAST or Northwest Ohio but in Southwest Ohio, it's "ah-di-oh" (audio). And "cuss" word just sounds bad, to be honest. "Curse" word is more like it; as in "cursing" somebody out. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 6, 200619 yr preservationrestoratio, since you asked: I "wash" my clothes not "warsh" My shoes are "sneakers" not 'gym shoes" I drink "soda" not "pop" I eat "cold cuts" not "lunch meat" I say "curse" words not "cuss" words I say "water fountain" not a "drinking fountain" I say "you guys" not "Florence Ya'll" Did I cover them all? LOL - I wasn't asking for your answers ;) But thanks! I say lunch meat, although I have heard cold cuts used I use water and drinking fountain both I don't use sneakers or gym shoes...they are tennis shoes They are cuss words by my vocabulary Up in Toledo, saying "warshed" at school could get you banished. I also have noticed I say "audio" different from people in southern Ohio. I only say "cuss" (and "custy" as that's a slang term where I'm from). "Cursing" is for damnings. The only time I've heard "warshed" is in Pennsylvania, ironically. And I don't know about SouthEAST or Northwest Ohio but in Southwest Ohio, it's "ah-di-oh" (audio). And "cuss" word just sounds bad, to be honest. "Curse" word is more like it; as in "cursing" somebody out. Most of my family members use warsh, with the expection of my brother and I. I had a friend from Penn. who also used it. ahdio? Never heard all the time i've spent in SW Ohio. I've heard awdio. Here's another one that drives my brother nuts....coupon.......i say "q"pon. He is always correcting me. Is this common elsewhere?
January 6, 200619 yr Ah or aw, is relatively the same idea of "audio." I think we are saying the same thing, just conveing it differently. I sometimes say "q"pon or "co"pon. It just depends on my mood. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 6, 200619 yr Ah or aw, is relatively the same idea of "audio." I think we are saying the same thing, just conveing it differently. Well how else would one say it Adio?
January 6, 200619 yr Do you guys have breakfast, lunch and dinner; breakfast, dinner, and supper, or breakfast, lunch and supper? Or something else?
January 6, 200619 yr I have breakfast, lunch and dinner/supper.....i use both to describe the third meal of the day. Although these days I mostly use dinner.
January 6, 200619 yr Here's another one that drives my brother nuts....coupon.......i say "q"pon. He is always correcting me. Is this common elsewhere? Oh no, it is definitely, "q-pon" How about "i-deer" for idea? LOL
January 6, 200619 yr I'm with PresRest - My grandparents have breakfast, dinner and supper, but we always had breakfast, lunch and then dinner/supper interchangeably...
January 6, 200619 yr Dinner is a mid afternoon meal, usually had on holidays, or synonymous with supper. Supper is a late afternoon or early evening meal. Supper is never eaten before 5:00.
January 6, 200619 yr its gotta be pop because if it wasn't pop then you couldn't have Faygo Red Pop....duh actually, look under where it says that... 'naturally and artificially flavored SODA' :lol: ____ and breakfast is the first meal you have in a day, lunch is the meal in the middle of your day. supper and dinner aren't so straight forward, i usually say dinner for a formal situation, and supper if it is informal. but in my heart i believe that dinner is the term for the biggest meal you eat in a day. so, breakfast and lunch can easily be the same meal, if you don't eat in the morning. (or if you eat a huge meal at noon, it could be breakfast lunch and dinner all at the same time :) ) oh, and if you work nights like me, and wake up in the evenings, my breakfast is in the p.m., not when the sun comes up. oh, and my results were 80% General American English 15% Yankee 5% Upper Midwestern
January 6, 200619 yr There was a much more comprehensive dialect survey online a while ago. You can't submit results anymore, but there are great maps showing all the results. I'll try to find the link; it's bookmarked on my home computer but not on my laptop. In response to some of the other things mentioned here: It's breakfast-lunch-dinner. Supper is not in my vocabulary. I save money with a "q-pon", which is an admittedly strange pronunciation given the spelling of the word, but "coo-pon" just sounds ridiculous somehow. "I-deer"... well, I don't say that, but for some reason I do use the Massachusetts pronunciation of "aunt". I guess I wear "sneakers," although I have not had occasion to even use the word in quite a while. I eat "cold cuts"... until a recent thread here I didn't even realize that Midwesterners don't say "cold cuts". "Water fountain," not "drinking fountain". (How about "bubbler"?)
January 6, 200619 yr There was a much more comprehensive dialect survey online a while ago. You can't submit results anymore, but there are great maps showing all the results. I'll try to find the link; it's bookmarked on my home computer but not on my laptop. In response to some of the other things mentioned here: It's breakfast-lunch-dinner. Supper is not in my vocabulary. I save money with a "q-pon", which is an admittedly strange pronunciation given the spelling of the word, but "coo-pon" just sounds ridiculous somehow. "I-deer"... well, I don't say that, but for some reason I do use the Massachusetts pronunciation of "aunt". I guess I wear "sneakers," although I have not had occasion to even use the word in quite a while. I eat "cold cuts"... until a recent thread here I didn't even realize that Midwesterners don't say "cold cuts". "Water fountain," not "drinking fountain". (How about "bubbler"?) PigBoy it is good to know that someone speaks properly on here ;) And notice question number 64 on this list: http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html What do you call the long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on?
January 6, 200619 yr Again, Northeastern-moronic rants. It is either or. In reality, probably both are incorrect and Queen's English reigns surpreme. It's like arguing Ebonics versus Pidgen English, who cares? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 6, 200619 yr my 5 cents Your Linguistic Profile: 75% General American English 10% Dixie 10% Yankee 5% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern (I don't think I gained 10% dixie in 15 months here in Louisiana. Though I like to ask for Soda Pop and prefer Sweet Tea to unsweetened)
January 6, 200619 yr #105 shows why people from Cincy are so confused about Soda/Pop/Coke. They sit at the nexus of three different dialects. http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_105.html BTW...it's pop!
January 6, 200619 yr 60% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern Y'all forgot that after you warsh your clothes, you gotta' wrench 'em. And it ain't a bag or a sack; it's a poke! In the morning I have breakfast, at noon I have lunch if it's fast food or a snack on the run / dinner if it's sit down with tableware and food prepared in the kitchen, and in the evening I have supper.
January 8, 200619 yr Another thought I had was highways. I guess technically state routes are highways, but I never grew up with that and will die never calling anything that isn't limited access a highway. I can't do it.
January 8, 200619 yr Another thought I had was highways. I guess technically state routes are highways, but I never grew up with that and will die never calling anything that isn't limited access a highway. I can't do it. I might say "highway" when saying something like "Route 4 is a state highway," but I probably wouldn't use "highway" generically for roads that aren't limited access. Speaking of which, I have another question: Route- pronounced "root" or "rout"? I think that was in the quiz, but I'm curious to know everyone's answers. I say "root," but I think the other pronunciation may be more common in Ohio.
January 8, 200619 yr "root" The concept of "highway" defined by limited access is new to me. To me, almost any state route is a highway in that it's a step above a county road. Limited access defines an expressway. Maybe part of the difference in interpretation is that I started driving in 1955, before there were interstates, at least in the midwest. The only limited-access roads I knew then were toll roads, or "turnpikes."
January 8, 200619 yr Rout, usually. I find that I am variable on a lot of these sorts of things. It'll always be Root 66.
January 8, 200619 yr Dinner is a mid afternoon meal, usually had on holidays, or synonymous with supper. Supper is a late afternoon or early evening meal. Supper is never eaten before 5:00. Yes, thats how I recall it...although sunday dinner was also midafternoon (roughly the same as lunch). Usually though it was supper in the late afternoon or evening. @@@@@@@@@@ Highway could mean a four lane highway....like US 31W The limited access highway is an expressway. In the Chicago area there are no turnpikes, they are "tollways"/
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