{"id":663,"date":"2005-04-17T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/i-will-not-be-categorized\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T21:26:07","slug":"i-will-not-be-categorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/i-will-not-be-categorized\/","title":{"rendered":"I will not be categorized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Your Linguistic Profile:<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n60% General American English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n20% Yankee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n10% Dixie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n10% Upper Midwestern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n0% Midwestern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
\nWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

15. “Y’all”…
Just rolls off your tongue [+5%]
Is not sometihng (sic) you say [-5%]<\/p>\n

I have a quarrel with all surveys. I’ve never taken ONE that didn’t put me in a bind with its choices. I grew up in Northern Virginia (accent on Northern), a few miles from Washington, DC. My parents were from Kentucky and Tennessee. “Y’all” is something I *almost* never say; “you guys,” “you two,” are more common in my speech, but I do need a collective\/plural you — as most languages provide.<\/p>\n

In Virginia, we drove on Root 1, but I take a particular rOUTe to get somewhere.<\/p>\n

A cellar is an unfinished basement. My house has a crawlspace.<\/p>\n

I grew up accenting “impotent” differently if it was figurative or literal. I struggled to identify the difference in meaning implied by Ecomomic vs EHconomic. I wondered how BEfriend could be so different from BEhead (why isn’t it dehead?). That’s called an ideolect; I’m the only native speaker of mine. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 20% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? 15. “Y’all”…Just rolls off your tongue [+5%]Is not sometihng (sic) you say [-5%] I have a quarrel with all surveys. I’ve never taken ONE that didn’t put me in a bind … Continue reading I will not be categorized<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}