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To: lieutenant columbo
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.

972 posted on 06/03/2005 5:37:32 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -- Alexander Hamilton)
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To: kevkrom; lieutenant columbo; franksolich

Well, that linguistics test was fun! Here's my profile:

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


The Midwestern influence comes from my 37 years living in various parts of the Midwest (Ohio, Michigan, Illinois). The Dixie influence comes from my 13 years in the Atlanta area. I don't know WHERE the heck the Yankee influence comes from - unless it's from my husband, who was born in NYC.


1,029 posted on 06/03/2005 2:22:21 PM PDT by Purrcival (Aw geez, not the "impeachment" stuff again! Do liberals EVER stop whining? Sore losers.)
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To: kevkrom; lieutenant columbo; franksolich

Oh...I forgot:

One of my pet peeves here in the South is the use of "might could" or "might would" (as in, "I might could do that"). I've heard people with Master's degrees talking like that here. Of course, they would never write that way, but it's a colloquialism. Another one is "fixin' to" (as in, "I'm fixin' to go to the store").


1,030 posted on 06/03/2005 2:28:13 PM PDT by Purrcival (Aw geez, not the "impeachment" stuff again! Do liberals EVER stop whining? Sore losers.)
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