My roots are showing...

[gnomi]

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% Yankee

30% General American English

10% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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Problem is, there were a number of questions for which my idiolect was not represented (I grew up calling what they had water fountain/drinking fountain for a "bubbler," for example). And to me, "icing" and "frosting" both go on cakes, but they're different from one another (frosting is thicker, for one thing). And traditionalists (such as my father) in this area call soda/pop/carbonated beverages "tonic." So I feel underrepresented by the test. Of course, they probably don't expect people like me to be taking the test.

and cars have "blinkers," darnit!

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

But of course, nobody knows what "blinkers" are for. I suspect that "blinkers" were put on cars to make people comfortable when they switched from horses, which also had blinkers. Some people claim that blinkers are to show when you're about to turn the car, but that's just stupid. I mean, can't people figure OUT that the car turned?

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Where I come from they're 'indicators'. I don't think horses had those.

[neilfein.livejournal.com]

Nor I. Wouldn't you need electricity for those? When was this?