What kind of english do you speak?

[Kat Kanning]

http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/

Here was mine:

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Midwestern

[Pat K]

Mine was

65% general American english
20% Yankee
!5% Dixie

[Lloyd Danforth]

Like most of these tests, there are missing options.  I use both basement and cellar, as an example.
I believe Television is a great neutralizer in the way most of us speak. 

45% Yankee
35% General English
10% Upper Midwestern*
5% Dixie*
0% Midwestern

In 10 generations of my family, none have lived anywhere, but, New England.

[GT]

I'm originally from Mass moved to NH 9 years ago.

40% Yankee
35% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern

[Russell Kanning]

65% General American English
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

We needed more questions and I also didn't what to choose just one or any of some answers. I wonder how people from out west would normally score on this test...I should be influenced from upper-midwestern from my family, but other than that?
What other questions could we come up with to seperate out people and what other categories should there be?
For me I hadn't seen a roundabout/traffic circle before 2000 so I didn't use the term...I just knew they called them roundabouts in England.

This test was definitely invented by someone in the midwest or farther east.....a California test would have said:

1 roundabout
2 traffic circle
3 huh?

Here is another California test:

What do you call a road like I-95?
1 - an Interstate (everywhere else?)
2 - a Freeway (California)
3 - the turnpike (Jersey)

What is a "dude"
1- something to do with a ranch or a term they use too often in CA (Eastern)
2- term they use in CA (Midwestern, Rocky Moutains)
3- Dude....if you have to ask .... then you totally don't get it (CA)
4- Fag (Southern especially Texas)

What's a cruller?

[AlanM]

40% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

A cruller is a doughnut. Twisted and long, not circular.

[GT]

If your from the Northeast it's a crulla. We don't use R's

[AlanM]

If your from the Northeast it's a crulla. We don't use R's

True. Of course when I read something I just naturally turn the R at the end of a word into an "a" or "ah". Just seems natural. 

[AlanM]

  When I was a kid, we use to call soda 'tonic', as in "I want some tonic". It must have been a NH thing, because nobody I know from outside of NH ever said 'tonic'. I hear it every once in a while, but not very often.

[GT]

? When I was a kid, we use to call soda 'tonic', as in "I want some tonic". It must have been a NH thing, because nobody I know from outside of NH ever said 'tonic'. I hear it every once in a while, but not very often.

I think it was a Mass thing to. That's what we called it too. Seems to have faded out though.

[cathleeninnh]

If your from the Northeast it's a crulla. We don't use R's

I have heard quite a few people add an R to the word pizza.

[Russell Kanning]

Pizza with an "R" that is both unItalian it is unAmerican.

Should we come up with lists of NH specific words andsuch and have the locals expound on them for incoming Porcupines?

[Russell Kanning]

What is with shopping "charriages"?... they are shopping "carts" they don't carry people they carry stuff

[KBCraig]

55% General American English
30% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

An easy course is a "Mickey Mouse".

Instead of choosing between soda or pop, they needed an option for "soda pop"

To get really Southern, they should have included "antigodlin" for "diagonal".

I might not actually pronounce Mary/marry/merry differently, except in my own head. I'm the only person I know who actually pronounces pin and pen differently. The difference is the same as between six and sex, and nobody has trouble distinguishing those.

As for dropping/added Rs, I always laugh at Norm ("Nahm") Abrams: "If you'd like to order a measured drawering of this chest of draws..."

[LiveFreeOrDie]

60% General American English
40% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern