6.1.4 self-QUIZ: Test Your Knowledge of American Dialects

Test Your Knowledge of American Dialects

Each of the following phrases is common to a specific U.S. dialect. See if you know what each one means and where it is from.

1. "Are you packing a card?"
2. "Check out the second growth."
3. "Mind if I use your commode?"
4. "Hey, that guy just budged!"
5. "Is there a bubbler nearby?"
6. "You're blocking my dooryard."
7. "He's just a leafer."
8. "Let's sit in the parlor."
9. "It's in the locker."

Note: Information in this Self-Quiz was obtained from “Regional vocabularies of American English” (n.d.).