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Yankee or Dixie? Quiz
http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm ^ | 25-Feb-2004

Posted on 02/25/2004 9:16:56 AM PST by stainlessbanner

Yankee or Dixie?
Check on your dialect and see if you might have crossed over to the "other side"! Simply click on the correct answer. As you go, the quiz will automatically interpret each answer to show you what your answer implies about you. When you are done, press Compute My Score. Your score will be calculated as a percentage: 0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie.


* This test is based on results from the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey of 30788 respondents.

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: dixie; quiz; yankee
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To: azhenfud
98% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

I saw what did it. It's that icing question and the tiny lobster one. But heck growing up we went down to the creek and fished for crawdads. Start a little fire on the side of the creek, and cook crawdads. ;)

41 posted on 02/25/2004 8:23:17 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice.)
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To: stainlessbanner
81% Dixie!

It would have been a solid 100% had I not been infected with the Northern dialect, at the tender age of 19, by serving in the Navy for 4 years, with so many North Easterners. (LOL!)

That was a hoot! Thanks for the cheap thrill.

42 posted on 02/25/2004 8:45:55 PM PST by Hillarys nightmare (Limbaugh is the single Greatest Human alive in the world today; and thank GOD he is an American!)
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To: stainlessbanner
93% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

Heck, aunt= aint and tenny shoes are those things you wear on your feet in PE. Crawdad's = mudbugs. They didn't have the right choices or answers. If you ask for soda in the south, you're gonna end up with a dose out of the arm and hammer box.

43 posted on 02/25/2004 9:11:12 PM PST by exhaustedmomma
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To: stainlessbanner
48%. Barely in the Yankee category. I'm sooooo embarassed.
44 posted on 02/26/2004 3:43:02 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: stainlessbanner
Low 70's. I take exception with some of the answers though.

Creek is "Crik" and Caramel is "Carml" (one syllable), and a sale on the front yard is called an "awk-shun" :^)

I got the following, odd for a feller born in Yankee Illinois. But dad was a refinery engineer, and we got around to CalTex/Texaco refinery towns all over the US and the world. It's a couple of the mostly-Texas terms that skewed my score, I reckon.

96% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

#10 is a mudbug.
#11 is *takkies*
#13 is *the Louisville and Nashville*
#16 is a Doctor Pepper, an RC or a CoCola.

45 posted on 02/26/2004 5:18:12 AM PST by archy (Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT! Done dirt cheap! Neckties, contracts, high voltage...Done dirt cheap!)
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To: stainlessbanner
Still got an 81% after 21 years in NJ.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

46 posted on 02/26/2004 5:26:55 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: stainlessbanner
44 yank,and i got great lakes on nearly ALL of my answers

MICHGANDERS RULE!!!! lol :P

47 posted on 02/26/2004 5:28:21 AM PST by MetalHeadConservative35 (Paintball : the war never ends..and neither does the fun)
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To: billbears
Well, durn.
I got "57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category."

This is probably due to my wife's corrupting influence. :)

48 posted on 02/26/2004 5:29:11 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: billbears
BB, I knew there had to be a fluke somewhere. I know you're more than 75% Rebel. < grin >

"It's that icing question and the tiny lobster one."

That's just a carryover influence from our public school days. Icing is still icing, and frosting is frosting. I've always been told the two aren't the same - frosting has a softer texture than icing. Have you ever heard that?

Also, I always thought it sounded too silly to say "I'm going to dig 'CRAYFISH'" instead of 'crawdads'. I still think there's a difference - the effect is just not the same....

49 posted on 02/26/2004 5:29:57 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: stainlessbanner
84% y'all. Wife from KY got 55%. Best friend got 74% we've both lived in Charlotte our whole life. We can take it again if "yuonto". If you can pronounce that you don't need the test you are definately southern.
HeHe. I guess I'm "fixin" to catch some grief over that one.
50 posted on 02/26/2004 12:24:04 PM PST by rikkir (I thought of a great tag line today...)
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To: stainlessbanner
YeeHaw! 100% Dixie; Is General Lee your father? I'm so proud I could pop!
51 posted on 03/01/2004 4:50:03 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: stainlessbanner
45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Which makes sense because I speak Minnesoootan.
52 posted on 03/01/2004 5:46:23 PM PST by Hawkeye's Girl
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To: stainlessbanner
45% dialectic Damn Yankee.
53 posted on 03/01/2004 5:55:39 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: stainlessbanner
53% Dixie, probably because of the mixture of regional dialects from transplants here in So Cal.


Thanks Y'all.
54 posted on 03/01/2004 5:57:53 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: socal_parrot
I'm 44% Yankee and grew up in NJ. The relatives are from North Carolina. I'm so confused. lol

...And not everyone from NJ sounds as if they are from Brooklyn.
55 posted on 03/01/2004 6:13:30 PM PST by Unknown Freeper
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To: Unknown Freeper
...And not everyone from NJ sounds as if they are from Brooklyn.

Youse don't? Yeah right...and I'm sure not every second guy is named Pauly either. ;)

Here in California we say "Y'all", but it's usually followed by "dude" or "amigo".

56 posted on 03/01/2004 6:26:19 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: stainlessbanner
I came out with 53percent Dixie accent....I grew up in Chicago, and lived there for the first 32 years of my life...but my dad was from the Pennsylvania-New Jersey area, and he retained his eastern accent, so I was raised hearing the Chicago accent and phrases from my Chicago born and bred mom, while also being influenced by dads eastern accent and phrases....

The 3rd question in that quiz really tickled me, because it asked about the word 'Creek'....I have always pronounced it to rhyme with 'kick', and it just drives my husband and son wild....they say I am wrong, because the way its spelled, you should pronounce it to rhyme with 'deep'....but every single one of my eastern relatives pronounced it to rhyme with 'kick', and the work creek was said often, as my old great grandmothers house was right next to a creek, so the word creek was used often....'Crick', is the way I will pronounce it till the day I die...

Now, after living in the midwest all those years, my hubby and I lived in North Carolina for 5 yrs....and I suppose my speech was influenced by living there...speaking southern, is just a lovely, easy way of speaking, at least to me...I guess the main phrases I have retained from my years in the south, are 'Y'all' for addressing a group, and 'Yonder', conveniently used to flinging my arm out, and indicating some other place....anyplace can be 'Over Yonder'....also 'Im a fixin', when I am getting ready to do something...

Today I live in the Pacific Northwest, and have been here for almost 20yrs...I have had folks tell me, that they cannot figure out where I am from, based on my accent, and use of phrases.....I guess I am just a mix of Midwest-Eastern-Southern, with Chicago being in a class all by itself, when it comes to accent and phrases...

A fun test to take....
57 posted on 03/01/2004 6:38:04 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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