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.
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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.).