[lieutenant columbo]

To all discussing "soda" vs. "pop," here's a fun dialect quiz. I dunno how accurate it is, but it pegged me correctly. I'm a "soda" and "bucket" person, too.

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

[SoothingDave]

I've seen it before, and I'm still wondering how "Mary / marry / merry" can be pronounced differently.

SD

[Chappaquiddick Crawdad]

Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie

Yep, seems pretty accurate to me. Born and raised in western Michigan. Mother grew up in New Jersey, father in Pennsylvania and Arizona.

"The Devil is beating his wife" lmao, never heard that before! ;-)

[Duke Nukum]

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
15% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern

One time on the radio when I was under 5, the DJ said if it's raining and the sun is shining it meant the Devil was fighting over his wife, but I figured it was close enough. Maybe the DJ said the Devil was fighting with his wife but we always said "fighting over" and I always wondered who the Devil was fighting with, I guess I imagined it was like two rams vying for the affection of the same ewe.

I didn't answer anything for drinking/water fountain since we call it a bubbler.

Also, I wasn't familiar with any of the words for an easy class. Maybe all my classes were just hard to me so I never had use for such a term, or maybe I knew a term at one time but I don't remember. "Crip class" seems familiar, now that I think of it, but I didn't know what it meant until now.

A fun little quiz.

[kevkrom]

Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

Hmmmm... considering my 7+ years in Indiana, you'd think this would turn out differently... then again, I never did quite get the hang of the local lingo. My personal pet peeve is the phrase "come with", where the object (me, us, etc.) is missing.