Test: Yankee or Dixie
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Test: Yankee or Dixie
Take this test to find out if you are a dixie or yankee by the way "ya'll" talk
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lgrob/sou ... t_quiz.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lgrob/sou ... t_quiz.htm
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50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Someone explain to me what "Dixie" is. There should have been an option on "aunt" to be pronounced like "awnt", but I usually use the "ant" pronunciation anyways.
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John Wayne is still "the man" even though he has been dead for almost 30 years.Kopio wrote:Gee.....with an avatar of John Wayne I'd of never guessed you were a dixie!! :PRhuiden wrote:I scored "75% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!"
I suppose this is good for someone who lives in rural east Tennessee although I expected I would have scored better.
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Now this is just worrying
Drive-through liquor store?What's a drive through liquor store called?
I haven't heard of any such thing, or none of the below
Brew thru
Beverage barn
Party barn
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Yes they really do have drive through Liquor stores. Here they are called Beverage Barns. They usually look like barns and you usually drive through the middle of the building (like a barn). In Lousianna and southeast Texas they are sometimes called "Ice Houses".
Trivia: John Wayne is the man, but he was born in the Northeast and his real name was Marion. ...and he called everyone else pilgrim - lol
Trivia: John Wayne is the man, but he was born in the Northeast and his real name was Marion. ...and he called everyone else pilgrim - lol
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I'm not sure I got their scoring system. I scored 41% Yankee, barely Yankee. A lot of my answers pegged me from the Great Lakes or Michigan, which is true. I was born and raised in Michigan and have lived in Ohio for the past 12 years. None of my answers was specifically Dixie, except for Roly-poly for those bugs.
I just don't see how I could be barely Yankee.
As a side note. We do have drive through liquor stores here, but there is no special name for them.
I just don't see how I could be barely Yankee.
As a side note. We do have drive through liquor stores here, but there is no special name for them.
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Dixie is about the kind of language accent you have -- Dixie language is commonly associated with the states of Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, The Carolinas, Maryland, Tennesse, Kentucky. Called the deep south in the US. The language there is colorful and uses a lot of expressions not used anywhere else in the US. My guess is that you learned english from somoen who was associated with the southern US in some way.
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47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
That's actually not surprising. Don't be fooled by my current residence in Ontario. I grew up in Arizona. My mother is from the midwest, my father from Genoa, Italy. I have lived in Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and southern Virginia. Its a wonder I can talk at all.
That's actually not surprising. Don't be fooled by my current residence in Ontario. I grew up in Arizona. My mother is from the midwest, my father from Genoa, Italy. I have lived in Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and southern Virginia. Its a wonder I can talk at all.
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Hmm.... 62% dixie... and considering I'm a dutchman living in australia...
“Cum ego verbo utar,” Humpty Dumpty dixit voce contempta, “indicat illud quod optem – nec plus nec minus.”
“Est tamen rogatio” dixit Alice, “an efficere verba tot res indicare possis.”
“Rogatio est, “Humpty Dumpty responsit, “quae fiat magister – id cunctum est.”
“Est tamen rogatio” dixit Alice, “an efficere verba tot res indicare possis.”
“Rogatio est, “Humpty Dumpty responsit, “quae fiat magister – id cunctum est.”
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Hmm. 37%, which makes me quite solidly Yankee.
Except I'd consider myself mid-western. Yankee for me implies NE, even if I do live in a town with a sports stadium still named after the Civil War training camp once sited there (Camp Randall).
Except I'd consider myself mid-western. Yankee for me implies NE, even if I do live in a town with a sports stadium still named after the Civil War training camp once sited there (Camp Randall).
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Not only south but we are increasingly being 'americanized'.edonnelly wrote:Well, I guess Australia is "south." Do you have any drive through liquor stores down under?Kasper wrote:Hmm.... 62% dixie... and considering I'm a dutchman living in australia...
And: Yes we do, but we just call them drive through liquor stores, rather unimaginative...
“Cum ego verbo utar,” Humpty Dumpty dixit voce contempta, “indicat illud quod optem – nec plus nec minus.”
“Est tamen rogatio” dixit Alice, “an efficere verba tot res indicare possis.”
“Rogatio est, “Humpty Dumpty responsit, “quae fiat magister – id cunctum est.”
“Est tamen rogatio” dixit Alice, “an efficere verba tot res indicare possis.”
“Rogatio est, “Humpty Dumpty responsit, “quae fiat magister – id cunctum est.”
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Car-mel?
I strongly disagree with the test when it says that 'caramel' is pronounced 'car-mel' manly in the great lakes region, and 'car-a-mel' more in the South. I think the reverse may be true. In any case, I scored 92% and it asked me if General Lee was my father. So I can speak with authority when I say that 'car-mel' is correct Southern pronounciation.
Sebastian swift: you are right to ask 'since when is grocery bag Southern vernacular?' Scholars I have read claim that 'polk', is more Southern, but on the other hand, people in the South have always used 'bag' and 'polk' interchangeably as far as I know, and I think that 'polk' used to predominate, but 'bag seems to do so now.
Sebastian swift: you are right to ask 'since when is grocery bag Southern vernacular?' Scholars I have read claim that 'polk', is more Southern, but on the other hand, people in the South have always used 'bag' and 'polk' interchangeably as far as I know, and I think that 'polk' used to predominate, but 'bag seems to do so now.
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Re: Car-mel?
I agree with you. In my experience its North-easterners who say 'ca-ra-mel'.Jefferson Cicero wrote:I strongly disagree with the test when it says that 'caramel' is pronounced 'car-mel' manly in the great lakes region, and 'car-a-mel' more in the South. I think the reverse may be true. In any case, I scored 92% and it asked me if General Lee was my father. So I can speak with authority when I say that 'car-mel' is correct Southern pronounciation.
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It's funny. Here in Arkansas, it's always been that way as well, concerning 'bag of groceries' and 'sack of potatoes', despite the fact that a cashier may ask you 'you want me to put that in a sack?' What you say about 'carmel' and 'car-a-mel' also applies here. The first time I heard 'car-a-mel' was on TV and I thought it a strange pronounciation.Hmm. Where I grew up in Michcigan we all said "car-mel" and only heard "car-a-mel" on TV commercials. We also said "bag of groceries" but "sack of potatoes."
Perhaps 'car-a-mel' is native to New York City or southern California where the TV networks traditionally have been based?
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Re: Test: Yankee or Dixie
Geoff wrote:Take this test to find out if you are a dixie or yankee by the way "ya'll" talk
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It's funny, I haven't heard the word "bubbler" for "water fountain" in a long time. For question twenty, where I grew up, we called those bugs "water bugs."
"Hoagie" is not a Yankee word, it's a Philadelphia word. In Boston, hoagies are called "grinders."