FReeper Canteen ~ What Kind of American English Do You Speak? ~ 19 June 2013

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[left that other site]

Well, it says i speak “Yankee”

To be more specific, it would be a section of Boston called Hyde Pahk.

[madameguinot]

Thank you! That was fun.

There needs to be a third choice:

Drinking fountain
Water Fountain
BUBBLER

[2111USMC]

Looks like we got identical scores.

Grew up in eastern Iowa.

[ApplegateRanch]

You Speak General American English!

65% General American English

20% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

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[TBP]

Midwestern, with a hint of New York (where I was born.)

[Kathy in Alaska]

God evening, Luv...30% Dixie!

Has kitty recovered?

[pax_et_bonum]

A crick is a creek small enough to step across.
__________

That’s not a crick!

A crick is what happens in your neck when you sleep wrong!

:-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my goodness, moose....the King’s English for you! LOL!

[FXRP]

I speak “anchor man” English. Ridicule by a couple of Goose Creek, SC bikers (Y’all Yankee!) in 1971 put an end to any identifiable accent I might have had.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteeen, GOP Poet....70% American. Thanks for playing.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Clinging....not to worry about the Queen.

And you are right, she WOULD hold her own umbrella.

Thanks for playing.

[AnAmericanMother]

50% Dixie
40% General American English
10% Yankee

No idea where the Yankee came from, I went to school in NJ and spent a summer on a dairy farm in Vermont, but still . . .

[luvie]

He has...it’s like it never even happened for him. LOL!

I just hope he remembers it enough to never do it again. He
might not be so lucky next time! :)

[ConorMacNessa]

I Speke Middle Engelish



Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury

By Geoffrey Chaucer

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.

Bifil that in that seson, on a day,
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,
At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye
Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle
In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde.
The chambres and the stables weren wyde,
And wel we weren esed atte beste;
And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste,
So hadde I spoken with hem everichon
That I was of hir felaweshipe anon,
And made forward erly for to ryse
To take our wey, ther as I yow devyse.

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[xrmusn]

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

hmmm....Still trying to fathom how

WHEN YOU ARE SKATING ON THIN ICE,

WHY

ARE YOU ABOUT TO LAND IN HOT WATER?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lightman...thanks for playing even if they don't have Pennsylvania Dutch.

[moose07]

faucet, spigot

I raise you...Tap!

Because I can...:)

[doorgunner69]

60% General American English

Not surprising as I have lived in the south, the west, and spent years in the military with guys from all over the states.

[ConorMacNessa]

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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, yarddog...40% Dixie. Thanks for playing.

Maybe you sound a little like Texas, or maybe it is just the “south” thing.