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druidspell ([personal profile] druidspell) wrote2006-12-27 06:56 pm
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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
 

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

The Midland
 
The Northeast
 
The West
 
Philadelphia
 
The South
 
Boston
 
North Central
 
What American accent do you have?
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I actually get a lot of "Are you from the Midwest?" and "When did you move to Kentucky?"
I also mess up Linguistics experiments, because I'm from central KY (which is more Southern than anything) and yet I don't talk like someone from around here. "Cot" and "caught"? I can hear (and pronounce) the difference between them. I was in a spelling bee once and the judge asked me to spell "hornet," except I had to ask for it in a sentence because she pronounced it "harnit."
However, it's not a soda, or a pop. It's a coke. It may not be made by the Coca Cola Company, but it's a coke.

[identity profile] druidspell.livejournal.com 2006-12-28 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
UK's medical sciences (medicine, pharmacy, nursing, veterinary, etc) programs are all pretty decent; just don't live in Gregg Page graduate housing, whatever you do.
But yeah, there's a very good reason that I refused to take any chemistry or more advanced bio classes--they're all geared toward making sure that the weakest of the herd of pre-med, pre-pharm, pre-nursing, pre-vet, etc. kids are culled. UK's undergrad chemistry and biology programs are geared toward making them appealing to the grad schools, and our med school is pretty cool. :) *proud of her little university*