The title of this post is a new phrase I learned for when it’s raining and the sun is shining… thanks to the “What Kind of American English Do You Speak?” quiz. That has got to be a phrase from the south.
According to the quiz, I speak:
- 85% General American English
- 10% Dixie
- 5% Upper Midwestern
- 0% Midwestern
- 0% Yankee
Which I find interesting since: (1) I grew up in the Midwest; (2) I was educated entirely in the Midwest; and, (3) I still live in the Midwest.
So what does that mean? Apparently, we of Midwestern ilk have mastered English cold. Ain’t we?
[Via divine angst]
I have never called it “devil is beating his wife” but what I have called it wasn’t an option: “a witch is being born.”
I like that one, too… 🙂
My results:
70% General American English
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
5% Yankee
Hmm … I a Midwesterner too — are you thinking what I am thinking?
Oddly enough we say that in the Caribbean too, I’d always thought it was a Caribbean saying.
The variation that I’ve heard is that the Devil and his wife are fighting.
I grew up in the northeast, but have lived in the midwest for the past 9 years:
55% Yankee
35% General American English
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
I pronounce “aunt” like “ont” (rather than “ant”). People here think I’m trying to sound faux-British…