| Your Linguistic Profile:: |
| 55% General American English |
| 15% Dixie |
| 15% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
| 0% Midwestern |
Thanks to Curb Girl for this.
The results are a little skewed but so am I.
- I grew up saying "pop" but have since taken to calling sweet carbonated beverages "soda".
- I've never pronounced "aunt" to sound like "ant" although that is the prevailing pronounciation where I grew up (and I took much ribbing on account of it).
- I think of "the sweet spread on top of cake" as frosting, but the I'd never swap it out in the expression/cliche, "...the icing on the cake."
- I never called an easy class a crip course, a gut, or a blow off. I called it an easy class (and believe me, there weren't that many). When I moved to Missouri for college, I noticed that people referred to low-level classes as "bonehead" classes.
- "Y'all" doesn't trip off my tongue, but I think that English is much in need of a second-person plural.
- I suspect my 5% Yankee is just pretentiousness.
- Finally, what does "Midwestern" sound like?
"Y'all" is a perfectly serviceable 2nd person plural. As is "youse guys." Unfortunately, regionalisms are stereotyped as ignorant. I think most of us simply get by with "you guys". If we begin writing it "youguys" or "uguys", maybe it would catch on.
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