On topic: pronouncing "whistle"

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:09 pm

Caru wrote:http://www.sonicpling.net/misc/yankee-dixie-quiz.html

I got 41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Doesn't suprise me since I grew up in upstate NY.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:11 pm

[quote="dubhlinn]59% Dixie.

Don't ask.. I have no idea!

Slan,
D(ixie).

[/quote]
You're just a good ole boy, Dub

I wonder, do you say "YEE HAW" a lot?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:17 pm

izzarina wrote:
Caru wrote:http://www.sonicpling.net/misc/yankee-dixie-quiz.html
I got 41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Doesn't suprise me since I grew up in upstate NY.

My score gets changed by 10 points, based only on whether I vote you'uns/yins or y'all. That is, if I vote honestly, and clear it and vote honestly again, just using the one variable. The quiz was based on the erroneous supposition that you'uns/yins was peculiar only to western Pennsylvania. Both y'all and you'uns are common here, but the old-timers definitely said you'uns.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:00 pm

I got 55% Dixie (barely Dixie.) Makes sense I suppose. I was raised entirely in the Mid-Atlantic States, just below Mason-Dixon, by Virginian parents.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:47 pm

Walden wrote:The quiz was based on the erroneous supposition that you'uns/yins was peculiar only to western Pennsylvania. Both y'all and you'uns are common here, but the old-timers definitely said you'uns.

I thought it was a Western PA / Ohio Valley thing too, which is why I asked...I think it was you Walden....if you were from here. The things you learn on C & F!

Cyfiawnder · Post by **Cyfiawnder** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:31 pm

I'm 49% yankee, but since I grew up on a farm it might have trown my score off a little bit. When I was a kid I called those bugs that roll up "Rolly-Pollys" but now I call them "Pill bugs" I'm suprried it didn't ask about "Wooly Bear" caterpillars.

Oh I also say Golf, and Gulf differently.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:39 pm

izzarina wrote: I thought it was a Western PA / Ohio Valley thing too, which is why I asked...I think it was you Walden....if you were from here. The things you learn on C & F!

It apparently goes across parts of Kentucky, and through the Ozarks. A fairly narrow band, I guess.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:06 pm

Walden wrote: My score gets changed by 10 points, based only on whether I vote you'uns/yins or y'all.

Mine seems to change too, if I change crawfish to crayfish....I tend to say crawfish now, but I always called them crayfish growing up. Strange. So I go from I think 41% to 30% which apparently shows a strong Yankee score.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:48 pm

izzarina wrote:
Walden wrote: My score gets changed by 10 points, based only on whether I vote you'uns/yins or y'all.
Mine seems to change too, if I change crawfish to crayfish....I tend to say crawfish now, but I always called them crayfish growing up. Strange. So I go from I think 41% to 30% which apparently shows a strong Yankee score.

We always said crawdad, though, it usually sounded more like crawdead.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:48 pm

I am apparently 81% Dixie. I could have told you that, though.

tuaz · Post by **tuaz** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:27 am

I don't pronounce the "h" sound in "whistle". Seems to be a matter of choice whether you do or don't in Singapore. (we're too small to have regional differences).

What intrigues me more is why (based on what I've observed in American TV programmes) you drop your "h" in the word "herb".

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:10 am

Cranberry wrote:I am apparently 81% Dixie. I could have told you that, though.

I get an 84, but it's an awfully brief test.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:11 am

tuaz wrote:What intrigues me more is why (based on what I've observed in American TV programmes) you drop your "h" in the word "herb".

It's a silent h, like in "oh," or "humble."

My grandmother grew up near a place named Hardesty, and it is pronounced "Ardesy."

tuaz · Post by **tuaz** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:15 am

Walden wrote:
tuaz wrote:What intrigues me more is why (based on what I've observed in American TV programmes) you drop your "h" in the word "herb".
It's a silent h, like in "oh," or "humble."

My grandmother grew up near a place named Hardesty, and it is pronounced "Ardesy."

You drop your aitches in "humble" ???!!!!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:17 am

tuaz wrote:You drop your aitches in "humble" ???!!!!

Yes.

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