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Thursday, March 26, 2009

American English: Which one do you speak?

I was recently asked what kind of American English I speak. Huh? The choices were:

1. General American English
2. Yankee
3. Dixie
4. Mid Western
5. Upper Midwestern

I was then faced with three questions: What is Yankee English,what is Dixie English, and what about the west coast? I guessed New England English for the first, and I was right. But I had never heard the term Dixie English. After some research, I found that Dixie English refers to a region, within the United States, that is made up of the eleven Southern States that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. So, Dixie English refers to English spoken in, what we consider to be, the traditional South of the United States. In the following weeks, I will outline the characteristics of each of these different kinds of American English and search for the term (or maybe even coin the term?) for west coast English. What type of American English do you speak?

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