Well... I read it a little different. I've ~heard~ some of those expressions before, like 'cruller' and 'rotary', but I don't use them. And they're not really used where I live.
Like the "pop" question, I know they're called "sodas" and "cokes" (even when not coca-cola, that's the ringer...) elsewhere. But it was "pop" when I was a kid. Though... the term "soda" seems to be generally taking over now, though the homogenization of all things.
I'd grown up saying "You wanna go get a coke?, or even more humorous, "What kind of coke you want?" But nowadays, I'm more likely to ask someone if they want a soda, only so I don't confuse the heck out of them.
Here's an oddity...when I little and before I got ridiculed for saying it, I always called a water fountain (one of the possibles on the test) a "bubbler". Apparently no one says that outside of small sections of New England and Wisconsin/Michigan (where my parents are from). Wonder how having that option on the quiz woulda skewed my results.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
55% General American English |
20% Yankee |
10% Upper Midwestern |
5% Dixie |
5% Midwestern |