{"id":383,"date":"2005-04-14T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=383"},"modified":"2005-04-14T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T19:29:17","slug":"on-a-linguistic-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"On a Linguistic Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not surprised by this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
\nWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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 surprise to me that my font of English has been permanently defiled. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

In a way, though, that meant that several questions I could have answered either way. I use both pronunciations for “route” depending on the circumstance, for example. Other questions had the same situational ambiguity. Still, the result is fairly accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[580,4107],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-accent","tag-memes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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Your Linguistic Profile:<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n55% General American English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n20% Dixie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n20% Yankee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n5% Upper Midwestern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n0% Midwestern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n