There seem to be a vast ocean of “surveys” that are all the rage on places like LiveJournal these days. Most are pretty silly in a not terribly funny way (“Answer 10 questions and we’ll tell which Canadian province you’re most like”), but this one was mildly amusing. You answer a bunch of questions about your use of American English (that’s there just to annoy WeatherGirl<\/a>) and they indicate where your linguistic influences come from.<\/p>\n Their analysis of me is pretty accurate; they certainly picked up the mid-western bias. One might expect more “Dixie” given that I grew up in Texas, but Northwest Texas where I grew up is more Texas<\/em> than Dixie, and has heavy ties to the lower mid-west accents. That, combined with parents who grew up in Chicago and California, and nearly 20 years in non-Texas places, has made my accent pretty non-Dixie.<\/p>\n Now I need to get WeatherGirl and Sub-Evil Boy<\/a> to do it and see where they come out.<\/p>\n