“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
I don’t usually do post these online quiz things, but this one is kinda cool:
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 70% General American English |
| 15% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
Yeah, that sounds about right. My only problem is with the “basement/cellar” question. I use both terms, depending on the intended use of the underground floor. For instance, most of my friends’ houses have basements. Carpeting, wall decorations, chairs and couches, etc. Basements are meant to be lived in. My house, on the other hand, has a cellar (actually, a sort of storm cellar built directly under the house): cold, damp, cement floor, insects and spiders, etc. We store things down there, and theoretically, it provides us shelter during tornadoes.
I say theoretically because I think the ghostly white, moldy, dead spider bodies in the cellar scare us more than a mere whirling cloud of glass shards.