What kind of english do you speak.

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60% General American English
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

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Originally Posted by maruchan

70% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

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You speak English?

60% General American English
30% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

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Originally Posted by MovingTarget

"The second syllable in pajamas sounds like:
The A in jam
The A in father"

They both sound the damn same to me.

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How the hell do they sound the same?

45% General American English
35% Yankee
20% Dixie

I am like a chameleon on the east coast.

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Originally Posted by OmniGear

How the hell do they sound the same?

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Maybe he says it "faye-ther." (I have no idea.)

I say both soda and pop, they're so reflexive I can't even figure out if I say one more than the other. It seems to be based on circumstance for me. I also say "car-mel" a lot more often than I do "care-uh-mel."

Maybe he says "jam" Jamaican style.

You mean "jam", as in "Jambi"? As in, "mekka lekka hi, mekka hiney-ho"?

35% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie
10% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

You'r like some sort of sick monster.

We call the night before Halloween Cabbage Night.

50% General American English
35% Yankee
15% Dixie

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Originally Posted by Melf

What a horrible, hack quiz. There's no basis to it at all, and he didn't even get the dialect names right. None of those he lists are accurate.

And "General" English? Doesn't exist.

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Yeah. Anyone who's taken even an introductory Linguistics class knows this.

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Originally Posted by Mike

The thing I just noticed is that I say "care-uh-mel," just like the dictionary says, but the dictionary also lists "car-mul" as a pronunciation. I guess it's just hard to say that second "a" if you're doing an umlaut "a" in the first syllable. I thought it was "care-mel," which just sounds retaerted.

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I say car-uh-mel. The second "a" sounds just like the first sometimes.