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/southern_dialect_quiz.htm

I think I can say that I am neither…

  1. How do you pronounce Aunt?
    Like the word want
    Like the word ant
    Like the word caught
    I pronounce them all the same

Where is the option that aunt is pronounced differently from all those words? :laughing:

As a native Ohioan I am quite distressed that I scored 71% “Dixie.” These past 8 years in Nashville may have been more harmful than I thought…

Uh-oh

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Dang it, I’m a Yankees fan too…

I guess a dad from Oklahoma and a wife from Texas has rubbed off on me more than I thought!!

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.

“42% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.”

I’m disappointed. I have spent my whole life in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and I thought I was all Yankee.

WB

You didn’t miss by much. I scored “40% (Yankee). A definite Yankee.”

Kerastes
whose speech habits were formed by his English professor father

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.

Rhuiden

“47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.”

I have roots in Missouri and New York - typical American mutt.

Cordially,

Paul

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

I also noticed a lot of them said I was from the Great Lakes or Michigan which I am :smiley:

Gee…with an avatar of John Wayne I’d of never guessed you were a dixie!! :stuck_out_tongue:

John Wayne is still “the man” even though he has been dead for almost 30 years.

Rhuiden

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

Drive-through liquor store?

I know… do they really have those?

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

Ah, thanks…I feel better.

WB

Actually he was born in Iowa in 1907 and his full name was Marion Morrison. He was known to play chess and was a strong conservative.

Rhuiden

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.

Hmmm… “89% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?”

I didn’t answer things I ignored or didn’t apply to my case. Anyway, what’s a Dixie?

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.