oops, i did it again...
sorry to steal a phrase from brittney... but i did. i did it again. i caught myself using a southern colloqualism. the slang of the south, if you will. that's how i know it's time for a vacation. i take inventory of my speech, and when that good ol' southern draw starts affecting my speech patterns, i know it's time to get out of dodge for a few days. i owe the recent trip to new york to the simple southern pronunciation of a word. it all starts with a dropped consonant at the end of a word. then "boil" has one syllable and i start contracting "you all". the minute i start "fixin' to" do anything, i'm out for good. i think i'm heading to the beach.
what are your speech patterns influenced by? take the test here and let me know in the comments section. here's mine...
Your Linguistic Profile:
80% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
posted by rob @ 9:53 PM
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5 Comments:
Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern
Well looks like neither (pronounced with the "ee" sound or the long "I" sound?) of us have much Midwestern going on. :)
cool. yeah, i think many of those pronunciations could go either (also, pronounced with the "ee" sound or the long "i" sound?) way. thanks for playing... :)
80% - General American
10% - Dixie (but I refuse to say ya'll)
10% - Yankee
0 - Midwestern
0 - Upper Mid
What can I say, I'm from Texas. Howdy.
yeeehaaaww ya'll! how ya'll doin down yonder wit ya momen dems? wellshew fire i never seen nottin like it! i am so dixie and soooo lovin it!
60% General American English
25% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
My mom did a good job (even though it use to drive me nuts), I've lived in Georgia for 23 years!
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