At a meeting today… “We’re not writing Hemingway here.” No, I try and write like Fitzgerald, thanks. Last night, while listening to the BBC World Service on NPR, I heard something I’d never, ever heard before. I heard someone pronounce “February” the way it’s spelled. I’ve always heard people say “Fe Byoo Airy.” Sometimes, justContinue reading “On Random Thoughts, Late Friday Afternoon”
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On Friday Morning Memeness
Before the coffee kicks in, a meme! What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don’t really have a local identity to begin with. Take this quiz now –Continue reading “On Friday Morning Memeness”
On Accents
I’m pretty sure I’ve done a quiz like this before, but I’m not finding it off-hand in my archives. And because I don’t feel like going through my archives looking for a meme done long ago, we’ll just do it again! (ETA: Here it is. April 2005.) So! What sort of accent do I have?Continue reading “On Accents”
On a Linguistic Profile
I’m not surprised by this: Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 20% Dixie 20% Yankee 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Given the time I’ve spent both above and below the Mason-Dixon line, plus a brief sojourn in Chicago in my younger years, it’s of no surpriseContinue reading “On a Linguistic Profile”