Super 17 Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 30% Yankee 10% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devils26 Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Your Linguistic Profile: 50% General American English 35% Yankee 10% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellOnICE Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Your Linguistic Profile: 50% General American English 40% Yankee 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Here's a bit of linguistic difference for you. Standard British English. The level of a building that is underground is called the: basement if it's a big building, cellar if it has wine in it or is a house. What do you call the night before Halloween?: Nothing. You bring back your groceries in a... bag The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called... toilet-papering or loo-rolling You call sweetened, carbonated beverages: fizzy drinks You drink from: a drinking fountain, or would if such things existed outside Hyde Park. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake: icing Do you use the word cruller? no. what on earth is that? What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point? a roundabout. What do you call an easy class? a doss lesson If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it: nothing. What do you call something that is diagonal from you? diagonal What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in? a shopping trolley You work out in... trainers. Sneakers and tennis shoes are two distinctly different things "Y'all"... is only said when trying to pretend to be from the deep south. The second syllable in pajamas sounds like: the a in father Does "caramel" have two or three syllables? three. how can it have two? ca-ra-mel. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"? no. "Route" rhymes with... boot Mary / marry / merry... all said differently. How do you say them the same? Mary- a as in M-air-y, marry short a, merry short e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic NRG Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Your Linguistic Profile: 40% General American English 25% Dixie 25% Yankee 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4777 Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 (edited) 75% General American English 15% Yankee 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern that was an interesting quiz. rotaries was rather confuzzling. some of them like the aunt and ant one i say both ways. there were a few like that. i don't wear anything other than sandals, save playing hockey and work, so that question wasn't really either for me. i just call my shoes, or stupid things that hurt my feet. Edited May 29, 2006 by bruins4777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Puddy Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Do you guys say the "a" in "Mario" like "mama" or like "mat"? I say it the second way... one of the few jerseyisms in my speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 Do you guys say the "a" in "Mario" like "mama" or like "mat"?I say it the second way... one of the few jerseyisms in my speech. The first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepperkorn Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 It's M"air"io Lemieux and M"ah"rio Andretti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 It's M"air"io Lemieux and M"ah"rio Andretti Isa that because it makes Lemieux sound whinier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super 17 Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 (edited) It's M"air"io Lemieux and M"ah"rio Andretti And Mario from Super Mario Bros is M"ah"rio. Edited May 29, 2006 by Super 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsdude530 Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 55% General American English 35% Yankee 5% Dixie 17 years in No. Jersey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threestars Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 (edited) Here's a bit of linguistic difference for you. Standard British English.The level of a building that is underground is called the: basement if it's a big building, cellar if it has wine in it or is a house. What do you call the night before Halloween?: Nothing. You bring back your groceries in a... bag The act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper is called... toilet-papering or loo-rolling You call sweetened, carbonated beverages: fizzy drinks You drink from: a drinking fountain, or would if such things existed outside Hyde Park. You tend to call the sweet spread on top of cake: icing Do you use the word cruller? no. what on earth is that? What do you call a traffic situation in which several roads meet in a circle and you have to get off at a certain point? a roundabout. What do you call an easy class? a doss lesson If it's raining while the sun is shining, you call it: nothing. What do you call something that is diagonal from you? diagonal What is the four wheeled contraption you push around your groceries in? a shopping trolley You work out in... trainers. Sneakers and tennis shoes are two distinctly different things "Y'all"... is only said when trying to pretend to be from the deep south. The second syllable in pajamas sounds like: the a in father Does "caramel" have two or three syllables? three. how can it have two? ca-ra-mel. Do you pronounce "aunt" like "ant"? no. "Route" rhymes with... boot Mary / marry / merry... all said differently. How do you say them the same? Mary- a as in M-air-y, marry short a, merry short e. I am with you ciyenne, it wasn't really "English" to me either! I didn't post what I got on it because the choices I wanted to pick weren't offered. And WTF is a cruller anyway? And I say Mario as M"ah"rio, no matter who it is. Edited May 29, 2006 by ThreeStars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueNJ97 Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 I am with you ciyenne, it wasn't really "English" to me either! I didn't post what I got on it because the choices I wanted to pick weren't offered.And WTF is a cruller anyway? And I say Mario as M"ah"rio, no matter who it is. http://www.answers.com/topic/cruller crul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Oh. I thought that was spelled cru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 It can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threestars Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 So, it ISN'T a doughnut? Weird, not sure I have encountered these "cruller" things.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 It has always just been a fancy donut to me. BTW, 3*s, what does "Carton of Crownies" mean? Maybe I should know, maybe I live in a cave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizDevil30 Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 crullers: http://images.google.com/images?q=cruller&...G=Search+Images Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nieuwy25 Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 And Nieuwy, not only should they have asked about "fixin' to", but, as someone who nearly married someone from North Texas, I can tell you, they should asked about "can't beat it with a stick" or "someone beat that with a big old ugly stick". Yeah, I've been guilty of saying, "can't beat that with a stick". FYI, roundabouts are called traffic circles here - they just put one in my little town. It's the only one I can think of that still exists. They had gotten rid of the ones in Dallas and Fort Worth a long time ago. My mom - who grew up in the area near where D/FW airport is now, way back in the '30s - says "warsh" for "wash"; "bidy" for "body"; and sometimes "Lard" for "Lord". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 They just put a circle in your town? I thought we were trying to get rid of them in this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nieuwy25 Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 It's part of a renovation being done for the "historic" part of town - it's not on a heavily travelled road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyFan42 Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 (edited) They just rebuilt a long-standing and heavily-travelled circle here a few years ago to make it safer. I gotta say, they did a great job. It used to be that no one was really sure how many lanes the thing had because the paint had worn away, so there'd be accidents all the time involving people who are too stupid to drive. They rebuilt and repainted it so that the various traffic flows are much clearer. Edited May 30, 2006 by RowdyFan42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threestars Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 (edited) It has always just been a fancy donut to me.BTW, 3*s, what does "Carton of Crownies" mean? Maybe I should know, maybe I live in a cave! Can't say I have ever heard that exact expression, but I am guessing in means some thing alsong the lines of: a pack of friends, or car full of friends or accomplices or something like that.....asuming the "crownies" you speak of are "cronies", phonetically crow-knees. Otherwise, I am at a loss. And....roundabouts are cool, they keep traffic flowing a lot more than ruddy traffic lights, just no-one knows how to use them here since they are so infrequently encountered, so they don't really work. They have got rid of LOADS of traffic lights in the UK in favour of roundabouts, even if they are just really tiny ones painted on the road. Edited May 31, 2006 by ThreeStars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I should have quoted it in context. It was something like "I bet you a carton of crownies". Now since it's cartons, is there a cigarette brand there called Crownies or Crown? Maybe booze? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.