If you grew up speaking American English...

[lexica510]

What dialect do you speak?

I came up as 41% Yankee - "just barely Yankee" - which I guess makes sense: Boston/California on one side, Tennessee/Idaho/Oregon/California on the other, born & raised in California by parents who were* both big ol' language geeks**. (I lost track of how many times I heard my mother grumble "It's miss-cheh-vuss, not

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[merle_]

I seem to recall taking that quiz, although it was less dynamically Javascripty back when. Almost all of my answers are coming up "common throughout entire US", which doesn't seem to discriminate very much. My regional dialects are all over the map, according to the inline comments. However:

"100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?"

Yee-haw! Hey, ma, I needs more grits ta go with my po-boy!

Hmm. Exactly the same answers via Opera rather than Safari gives me "57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.". That's.. interesting. Probably more accurate, as other quizzes rank me near the middle of the Mason-Dixon line, but the discrepancy makes me doubt the overall veracity of this particular quiz quite a lot.

[lexica510]

C'mon, people. It's one thing for the quiz itself to be completely scientifically invalid (I kind of expect that), but at least have the programming side of it right!

[merle_]

I prefer the quizzes in Russian where I have no idea what my answers were nor what the result turned out to me. They often have stunning images, though.