What kind of American English I speak

[figmo]

Ganked from courtney_of_eden:

Your Linguistic Profile:

40% General American English

40% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Just for fun I took it:

50% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

(There was one question which had no answers I would use, and only one I recognised, the one about the easy class...)

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I thought the one about the easy class didn't have enough choices. When I went to Columbia University I learned every Ivy League school had its own term for easy classes. At Columbia we called them "gut classes."

At San Jose State there was no such term. OTOH, San Jose State was a much easier school than Columbia, so you didn't have the glaring difference between the harder and easier classes.

[brunnhilde.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- our terms aren't there either. We called those classes "easy-'A's" or "basketweaving" or sometimes just "my easy class."

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

If we called them anything at Oberlin, it was either "gut" as a general class, or specific nicknames for the classes:

"Rocks for People Who Lift Them"
"Ice Cubes for Goobs"
"Gardening for Liberal Arts Students"
"Moons for Goons"

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

The Circuits class for non-majors (as opposed to the Circuits class for Electrical Engineers, which was evil on a cracker) was referred to as "Shocks for Jocks". (This was at Case Western Reserve University)

Easy?

[(Anonymous)]

Only term I ever heard was "basketweaving" or sometimes "underwater basket weaving".

--Robin