Pooter.

I just felt like saying that.

It's kinda simmilar to saying "Monkey" in terms of the sheer pleasure of it...

Your Linguistic Profile:
40% General American English
40% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

That's actually pretty good, I'm surprised.

Surprisingly accurate, as far as it goes. 30% Yankee, 5% Upper Midwestern, 5% Dixie

Grew up a Yankee, went to school in the upper midwest and now live in Dixie.

However, it doesn't go to a fine enough grain. I can hear the difference in New York and Boston Accents. (And avoid both, since I grew up between them.)

Unfortunately, Yankee does not include both those accents. My guess is that the author of the test doesn't know the difference, and is lumping them together.

Peter Pooter.

I just felt like saying that.

Peter's Pooter picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
10% Upper Midwestern

Pretty much right. Huh.

If Peter's Pooter picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter's Pooter picked?

40% Yankee, 35 % General American, 15% Dixie. Doesn't really sound like me.

I also learned that I'm 60% normal, my inner age is 26, and my inner personality disorder is schizo. When the quizbot told me my inner European was Dutch, I got disgusted and threw one of my wooden shoes at the monitor.

70% general, 25% Dixie

Its not pop or soda, its coke....its all coke

I think pickled pooters is funnier.

They should make 'pooter' part of the quiz. I doubt it's universal.

NOT ANOTHER FAILED QUIZ!!!! Augghhhh

55% General English, 20% Yankee, 15% Midwestern, 5% Dixie, 5% Upper Midwestern

Yeah, except I grew up in Michigan until after high school.

Never even been to teh NE (Yankee) areas.

Lived in teh South for 7 years

Yeah, that shit is EXACTLY right.

bullshit.

my self-identity is really taking a beating with these quizzes ace.

I'm crying here.

Its not a water fountain or a drinking fountain. Its a bubbler!

Your a fucking "bubbler," Brewski.

WTF?

Dead on I'd say

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

It didn't have to one critical question to distinguish an ordinary upstate NY denizen from those NYC troglodites though - how to you pronounce the name of that porcelain thing in the bathroom?

Upstate (the rest of the world): toy-let
NYC neanderthals: ter-lit

And we like happy music too!

Their quiz lifts about 20 questions from the 122 in the Harvard Dialect Survey (which is apparently no longer at Harvard: http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html ).

They also picked a bunch of questions that don't really show much regional variation. Here are the results for "Do you use the word cruller?":

http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_86.html

Do you see a regional pattern there?

Being from the south (originally from Arkansas), I call everything a "Coke". Of course, every "soda" vending machine is, by extension, a Coke machine.

So I presume to be unqualified to take the little quiz.

Right on, Johnny.

It's all coke...the conversation goes like this:

Q: You want something to drink?
A: Yes.
Q: Whatcha want?
A: Coke.
Q: What kind?
A: Dr Pepper

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
25% Dixie
10% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

That's pretty accurate. My parents were from Alabama and Texas via Louisiana, but I spent most of my childhood overseas in various military bases, with kids from all over the U.S. The result is I have a rather generic American accent, and use a few southern words and phrases. People from the north claim I have a southern accent, people from the south claim I have a northern accent.

compos mentos - You're right!

If Peter's Pooter picked a peck of pickled pooters,
Where's the peck of pickled pooters Peter's Pooter picked?

The benchmark against the queens english :

65% General American English
20% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

I'm from the UK, and although there were a couple of questions that I couldn't answer properly (it's a shopping trolley, and it's a soft drink, not pop or soda), here's my score.

Delphi guy

Dear, dear, no standard RC? What is Briton headed for?

Meant to say:

Dear, dear, no standard RP? What is Briton headed for?

Standard RP?

Yeah, as in "Received Pronunciation" to wit:

Throughout the last century and throughout the early part of this century, Received Pronunciation (RP) was very much the language of the ruling and educated classes.

...and I believe that the country is referred to as "Britain" no matter which US regional accent you spell it in.

Unless you really are referring to a citizen of Britain, in which case I believe that they are called "Britainians"

Or "pooters"...