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I normally don’t do this either…
At least I called soda “soda” and not “pop,” and aunt is not an insect.
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Your Linguistic Profile:: |
| 45% General American English |
| 40% Yankee |
| 10% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
HAT TIP: Bethie…
It is pronounced “ant”–as I told you before, I looked it up in the dictionary.
A biased dictionary
Just A Bit Of Fun This Sunday Evening
While browsing some blogs this evening I came across this one particular post that I thought was fun. Want to take a quiz? What kind of English do you speak? I found it rather interesting and a change of pace from the serious side of things.
Thanks for the post. This is just what my blog needed tonight to lighten up the mood after a controversial post I made in defense of Michelle Malkin.
Cheers!
Doll
The Case for English as the National Language
Due to a trackback, this morning, I was alerted to a new, and distinctive, voice in the Blogosphere, and have added it to the Menu of Delightful Appetizers. Alexandra, of All things Beautiful, makes her verbal points with an additional
Yep! ‘ant’ is right. It is pronounced in the same way. Anyways, quite an interesting matter to see.
Well, I’m from I-o-way, and here’s my results:
65% General American English
10% Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
So…what does that have to say about me?
PROBABLY NOTHING, but it was a fun test. Thanks for sharing, Matt!
All this fuss reminds me of a song from that wonderful musical, “My Fair Lady”:
Why Can’t the English?
Hear them down in Soho square,
Dropping “h’s” everywhere.
Speaking English anyway they like.
You sir, did you go to school?
Man: Wadaya tike me for, a fool?
Henry: No one taught him ‘take’ instead of ‘tike!
Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction, by now,
Should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir,
Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too!
Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
Hear a Cornishman converse,
I’d rather hear a choir singing flat.
Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one!
Eliza: Garn!
Henry: I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
It’s “Aoooow” and “Garn” that keep her in her place.
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.
Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too.
An Englishman’s way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
The moment he talks he makes some other
Englishman despise him.
One common language I’m afraid we’ll never get.
Oh, why can’t the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely
disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
Greek. In France every Frenchman knows
his language fro “A” to “Zed”
The French never care what they do, actually,
as long as they pronounce in properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And Hebrews learn it backwards,
which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English you’re regarded as a freak.
Why can’t the English,
Why can’t the English learn to speak
It’s a bubbler darn it. Not a water fountain or a drink fountain, it’s a bubbler.
“Bethie” talks like moi! Good test for newly arrived Mexicans!
Long live the bubbler!
Wrong! Do you say restaur-ant?