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Old 04-27-2005, 05:50 PM
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Question What kind of American English Do You Speak?
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I'm 70% General American English, 15% Yankee, and the rest of me is Dixie and Midwestern.

Brings back the soda vs. pop debates that I've had over the years!


Does anyone know where in the U.S. they use the phrase "kitty corner" to decribe something diagonal from somewhere else???

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Old 04-27-2005, 07:11 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
Y'all that was fun. J/K Thanks for Sharing

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
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Old 04-27-2005, 08:39 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
10. What do you call an easy class?

A crip course
A gut
A blow off
None of these I call it a gravy train how about you. Here is my proflie.
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70% General American English20% Dixie10% Yankee0% Midwestern0% Upper Midwestern
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Old 04-27-2005, 08:52 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
LOL! That is a great one!

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15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
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Old 04-27-2005, 09:19 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
I'm just starting to take this, BUT I wanted to add that there is a "KITTY CORNER"???
I pronounce it CADDY CORNER OR CADDY CORNERED! LOL!

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Old 04-27-2005, 09:26 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
Well there were a few more that I could have used "both" as an option....like for "route". Route (rhymes w/ out) when talking of a State Route (highway) and it rhymes with boot when I mean I someone is on their way..like the police are in route.
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Old 04-27-2005, 10:17 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English
25% Dixie
25% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
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Old 04-28-2005, 01:36 AM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
I say kitty corner but I don't think it is a southern CA thing. I think it's because my mom used to say it and probably her mom too. So maybe it's a North Dakota thing. There were a couple things I had never heard of but I didn't have a choice of picking neither.

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Old 04-28-2005, 02:53 AM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
When I was little, we lived in Iowa for a while. There it was "Kitty Corner" here it's "Caddy Corner". But N-E-Ways....here's mine:

55% General American English
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
10% Midwest
0% Upper Midwest

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Old 04-28-2005, 04:16 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
60% General American English
25% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Thanks!
We were laughing about this not long ago.
I think by the time I get done moving all over, nobody will be able to tell where I'm from.

(I only got 5% Midwestern when that is where I'm "really" from???)
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Old 04-29-2005, 10:36 AM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
Im fairly well rounded 45% General American

30% Yankee

20% Dixie

5% Midwestern
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Old 04-29-2005, 01:08 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
That was fun! Here is my profile:
Linguistic Profile:
60% Yankee
20% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern


And we "kitty corner" everything around here!
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Old 04-29-2005, 06:36 PM
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Re: What kind of American English Do You Speak?
Well shut muh mouth and cover me with grits! Whada ya'll think muh inglish iz?
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