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45% General American English

40% Yankee

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern




There's definitely some wiggle in those results, because there were a couple of questions where I wanted to choose "Both/All", and it was not an option.

Taking that quiz was a trip down memory lane, too. When I got to the question about water fountain vs. drinking fountain, I realized that while now I'm more likely to say "water fountain", when I was a kid growing up around Boston, we said, "drinking fountain".

But surely there ought to be a Western and/or Southwestern region on this quiz? I know we Californians all come from other places, and so we're total linguistic mongrels, but there must be vocabulary of speech patterns unique to the West.


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