Pretty cool little quiz there. It has me in Springfield MO, Louisville KY and Lexington KY. Close I guess sense I've live in Southern Illinois my entire life. If I go to the eastern side of KY I can really tell a difference in the way I talk compared to them, probably closer to Springfield MO than the other two.
I feel as though I have a pretty neutral dialect and I have a couple funny stories about this. When I first started where I work now I serviced Metropolis Il, Paducah Ky is right across the Ohio. Being the new guy in the area, I was accused of being some kinda yankee numerous times. At the time I took offense to this, I would have to explain that I grew up in a little town only an hour north still in SI, not Chicago. Chicago is not very well liked in the southern part of the state.
Had a brother in law that lived in Milwaukee and we used to visit a few times a year. One night after a "few" beers around the campfire. Not sure about anyone else but my neutral dialect goes away after a "few" beers and most sentences are just a run on word with all those old bad habits that I grew up with coming right out. My mother is always proud when this happens, she did here best to keep me from sounding like a "hick". Anyway, one of the guys at the party is kinda making fun of me because as he says he can't understand a word I'm saying. I laughed, told them the same story I told above. Then told him I couldn't understand him either. He had lived in downtown Chicago, so ha had a Chicago/Milwaukee dialect that got worse as the night went on too.
All that said, sometimes in this area I've heard people talking and I think what language is that?? then again I could understand every word of it. lol
I feel as though I have a pretty neutral dialect and I have a couple funny stories about this. When I first started where I work now I serviced Metropolis Il, Paducah Ky is right across the Ohio. Being the new guy in the area, I was accused of being some kinda yankee numerous times. At the time I took offense to this, I would have to explain that I grew up in a little town only an hour north still in SI, not Chicago. Chicago is not very well liked in the southern part of the state.
Had a brother in law that lived in Milwaukee and we used to visit a few times a year. One night after a "few" beers around the campfire. Not sure about anyone else but my neutral dialect goes away after a "few" beers and most sentences are just a run on word with all those old bad habits that I grew up with coming right out. My mother is always proud when this happens, she did here best to keep me from sounding like a "hick". Anyway, one of the guys at the party is kinda making fun of me because as he says he can't understand a word I'm saying. I laughed, told them the same story I told above. Then told him I couldn't understand him either. He had lived in downtown Chicago, so ha had a Chicago/Milwaukee dialect that got worse as the night went on too.
All that said, sometimes in this area I've heard people talking and I think what language is that?? then again I could understand every word of it. lol
