| Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| aboot regionalities |
I don't really have anything interesting to say about this except that I had crazy fun pronouncing all the different options. I do love accents.
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop." | | The Midland |
| | The Northeast |
| | Philadelphia |
| | The South |
| | The West |
| | Boston |
| | North Central |
| What American accent do you have?
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Oh, and I call it pop because that's what it is.
Rob Latham commented in class yesterday that the first time he realized he had really moved from San Francisco to Iowa City was when on his first day here a cashier said to him, "do you want your pop in a sack?" He also says he still doesn't understand Midwestern social norms for leaf-raking--he'd never before had a tree, apparently, and doesn't understand the point of raking them up before they all fall down. So now his lawn is covered in a thick leaf blanket and his neighbors keep complaining that their yards are under constant leaf barrage.
Hm, I wonder if lawn/yard is regional. To wikipedia!
[from skipperdee] |
posted by La Malinche @ 11:28 AM   |
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