Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 55% General American English |
| 35% Yankee |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Upper Midwestern |
| 0% Midwestern |
That zero percent Midwestern makes some sense. I had virtually no contact with my paternal grandmother, who is the only Midwesterner in the family tree. That 35 percent Yankee, tho, is more likely the residual effect of my maternal great grandparents coming over from the U.K. I'm still apt to call a sofa a chesterfield, for example.
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
