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Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
The Alpha Dictionary Site ^ | Dr, Goodword

Posted on 04/04/2005 10:55:38 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

To find out how much Southern blood your language shows, simply choose the words you use below, then press "Compute My Score!" at the end. The alphaDictionary will compute your score and tell you where you're coming from: are you speaking Bubbaese or are you a Yankee Doodle Dandy?

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

How do you pronounce Aunt?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: diction; dixie; rebel; yankee
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To: SwinneySwitch
39% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

I think I'll go sack Richmond.

81 posted on 04/05/2005 5:22:51 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: TexConfederate1861
He was opposed to the expansion of slavery. I'm not sure how that squares with his other beliefs/practices.
82 posted on 04/05/2005 7:16:00 AM PDT by beeler ("When you’re running down my country, Hoss you’re walking on the fighting side of me.")
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To: SwinneySwitch

78% (Dixie). You are a solid Southerner!


83 posted on 04/05/2005 3:27:36 PM PDT by JohnCliftn
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To: SwinneySwitch

36% Definitely a Yankee.


84 posted on 04/05/2005 6:02:22 PM PDT by Vor Lady
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To: stainlessbanner

Cart of course!


85 posted on 04/05/2005 6:04:47 PM PDT by Vor Lady
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To: SwinneySwitch

Anyone from America is a yanqui.


86 posted on 04/05/2005 6:05:43 PM PDT by cyborg (Feel the FReeper Love)
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To: SwinneySwitch

78% (Dixie). You are a solid Southerner!

I must admit that I spent a few years in military, but the 22% I got wrong must be due to the fact that I was raised in an Air Force town.


87 posted on 04/05/2005 6:08:10 PM PDT by deaconjim (Freep the world!)
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To: stainlessbanner

54% just below the Mason - Dixon line. I guess that would hold true as my ancestors come from Missouri. Like my tag line says, Pride in My Southern Ancestry.


88 posted on 04/05/2005 8:23:42 PM PDT by Colt .45 (Navy Veteran - Pride in my Southern Ancestry! Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
'6% (Yankee). Holy cow! Send this guy to Kennebunkport!'

That's ok, but do not send me in the dead of a coastal Maine winter (win-ta) :)

89 posted on 04/08/2005 6:54:22 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

97% rebel and proud of it!


90 posted on 04/08/2005 7:48:27 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: patton
The Church at the Falls (Falls Church) was used as a stable by the Army of Northern Aggression. They actually ripped out Geo. Washington's pew, to fit more horses in.

IIRC they also burned down his boyhood home in Fredericksburg. Truly sad. And of course Falls Church more resembles Falls Mosque these days...

91 posted on 04/08/2005 7:51:31 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: SwinneySwitch

My score:
>>36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Ugh! I'm a Red Sox fan (Beverly MA), so how can I be a Yankee? :)
I don't know the specific definition of a Yankee but:
--A _Connecticut_ Yankee in King Arthur's Court
--Yankee Magazine (New England)
--A yankee swap (probably New England)
--A yankee (term for a specific type of New Englander).

How the New York Highlanders got the name "Yankees" is
beyond me.

I do pronounce "aunt" to rhyme with "want". I pronounce
my first name as "Bawb" and a certain New England state
as "Vermawnt". Others might say "Bahb" and "Vermahnt".

Here's how I pronounce:

"What are you, retarded?"
= "What're you, retahhhhded?"

"The comic's name is Lenny Clarke"
= "The comic's name is Lenny Clahhhhhhhhke"

Curious that it said that "route" (rhymes with suit)
is "centered in Chicago" because I have a friend from
there who pronounces it to rhyme with "pout". I use
the former.


92 posted on 04/09/2005 12:59:15 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: M. Espinola

>>do not send me in the dead of a coastal Maine winter (win-ta) :)

Ayuh! ya can't get they-ah from he-yah.


93 posted on 04/09/2005 1:00:38 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: cyborg

>>Anyone from America is a yanqui.

People from outside the US who visit New England might think it curious, then, to see bumper stickers saying "Yankees Suck"! (No, we don't hate ourselves...
just a certain ballclub...)


94 posted on 04/09/2005 1:01:52 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: TexConfederate1861

I love Zell Miller's accent :)


95 posted on 04/09/2005 1:02:50 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio
If I ever'a staaaart speak'in like'a Maaaine hick just throw me in the ooocean. Yuuup, it's nice up heeeer'a in the win'ta. (If one is an Eskimo)
96 posted on 04/09/2005 1:18:24 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free!)
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To: raccoonradio
Remember this line from Mayor Kevin White?

"The City of Boston is the greatest city in the world!" (Especially if you were Kevin living like a king up on Beacon Hill)

97 posted on 04/09/2005 1:31:35 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
66% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

Life-long Kansan here, KC area. I'm proud to be, even nominally, Southern. Usually nobody will claim us *L*.

98 posted on 04/09/2005 1:35:44 AM PDT by hmmmmm
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To: rdb3

38% YANKEE! DEFINITELY A YANKEE!


99 posted on 04/09/2005 4:17:46 AM PDT by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: SwinneySwitch
"88% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?"

WooHoo!! I passed!

100 posted on 04/10/2005 4:18:13 PM PDT by Melinda in TN
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