I've lived in different parts of the country, so it's no surprise my speech came out this way:
55% General American
20% Dixie
10% Upper Mid-Western
10% Yankee
5% Mid-Western
Some comments:
I've never heard an easy class called any of the choices. As best I can recall, we called it a class for jocks.
I pronounce route both ways but didn't have that choice. Don't know why I choose what I choose, but I would say State root 60, and follow this rowt to get to the school.
I spent the first 20 years of my life in the south, and a coke was a coke. Anything else was a cold drink. Now I say pop.
And CC, caramel pronounced care a mel is a song by Suzanne Vega. But it's CAR mul apples and CAR mul corn.
Jude
