What kind of American English do I speak?
Apr. 18th, 2005 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI've been seeing this meme around a number of journals over the last few days: eventually I succumbed. I was interested to see what sort of questions were being asked. Anyway, I can't be the only person who answers quizzes in a spirit of "OK, let's see how wrong they can get this one".
In fact, I was surprised how many of the questions I could answer: despite their all being either / or (that is, only two options), there were only two or three questions where neither option applied.
I'd take that as a resounding "don't know", wouldn't you?
(For the benefit of anyone reading this who hasn't heard me, I speak RP - the kind of British English which used to be referred to as "correct".)
And my inner European is French - as if you'd ever doubted it!
In fact, I was surprised how many of the questions I could answer: despite their all being either / or (that is, only two options), there were only two or three questions where neither option applied.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
35% Yankee |
30% General American English |
20% Dixie |
10% Upper Midwestern |
5% Midwestern |
I'd take that as a resounding "don't know", wouldn't you?
(For the benefit of anyone reading this who hasn't heard me, I speak RP - the kind of British English which used to be referred to as "correct".)
And my inner European is French - as if you'd ever doubted it!
