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| 5% Midwestern |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
| 0% Dixie |
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April 17th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
I don’t think this thing accounts for anybody west of Kansas. Just remember people, you ignore California at your peril.
55% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
I can only assume the 20% Dixie is Laurel’s influence.
April 17th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
20% Dixie & 20% Yankee… do you find your nothern bits at war with your southern parts?
April 18th, 2005 at 12:21 am
It’s a covert, psy-ops kind of war. But yes.
April 18th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Just yesterday I finished reading Bill Bryson’s excellent “The Mother Tongue”, which talks about, well, according to the sub-title, “English, and how it got that way”. Very interesting. I’m a poor speller, but fairly anal about grammar, but this book makes me realize how dynamic the language is, and that whatever rules I think are in effect now may well not be in 20 or 200 years.
In any case, it’s a great book — highly recommended.
(BTW, the white text on green of the dialect report is extremely hard to read — maybe change it to black text?)
April 19th, 2005 at 2:37 am
Thanks Jeffrey! Looks like a good read — I’ve added it to my Amazon wishlist.
Lemme see if I can figure out how to change the background… I can’t see it at *all* in my browser w/o highlighting the text.
April 20th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
What is Upper Midwest? I had the highest score in that category and 0% in plain old midwest!
April 20th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
I think Upper Midwest is probably like North Dakota, Michigan, etc…
April 21st, 2005 at 11:34 pm
what are you muttering?