How To Speak Good American
What kind of American English do youse speak?
You can take the quiz version at the NY Times.
Or the interactive map of answers to about 100 different words/phrases at the NC State site.
For those who selected other, what other way is there to say ma-yo-naise? 🙂
BTW, “aggregate dialect difference” is the apparently the phrase to use when you want to say, “Yew talk funny.”
1 February 2014
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CONTEST ENTRY
I would like to drive a real life Frosty in the Australian Town of Aranda.
Thanks for the contest HTB!
Wow, that’s what I get for posting from my phone…
Not bad, I took the test and it said I’m from Boston, Providence or NY. Since I’m located in Canada near the border with upstate NY and once lived in East-Hartford when I was a kid I’d say it was pretty accurate.
Pretty cool. I took the test and it knew where I am from.
Sneakers gives me away as a NYer 🙂
Just as long as it’s NOT Miracle Whip.
Yeah, that stuff is just gross.
I used to hate biting into a sandwich I thought had Mayo, and had Miracle Whip instead. Instant appetite killer.
My 3 cities were Columbus, GA , Montgomery, Ala, & Birmingham, Ala.
I guess it makes sense. I was born in OK, grew up in VA & TX. I also spent 5+ years in TN & FL. So I’ve been circling all around there.