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2005-04-15 8:46 AM Linguistic meme-age Previous Entry :: Next Entry Mood: Happy Read/Post Comments (0)
There's definitely some wiggle in those results, because there were a couple of questions where I wanted to choose "Both/All", and it was not an option. Taking that quiz was a trip down memory lane, too. When I got to the question about water fountain vs. drinking fountain, I realized that while now I'm more likely to say "water fountain", when I was a kid growing up around Boston, we said, "drinking fountain". But surely there ought to be a Western and/or Southwestern region on this quiz? I know we Californians all come from other places, and so we're total linguistic mongrels, but there must be vocabulary of speech patterns unique to the West. Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top |
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