What Kind of English Do You Speak? November 20, 2006 Bill made me do it. Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 15% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern 0% Yankee I’m pretty boring standard I guess. What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
[…] What Kind of English Do You Speak?: […]
***Your Linguistic Profile:***
55% General American English
20% Dixie
15% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
Yeah, that about does it.
Just English. Since I am a Brit, that could also mean Liverpudlian English, Mancunian English, Brummy English…Cockney to name just a few. But being a Londoner at heart I’ll stick with plain old English.
I hate the way that software installers from people like Adobe have “American English” and “International English”.
How about “English”?
Because british english includes stupid words like ‘petrol’ and ‘put another smoke on the darby’