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.
Hmm… 62% dixie… and considering I’m a dutchman living in australia…
Well, I guess Australia is “south.” Do you have any drive through liquor stores down under?
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).
Not only south but we are increasingly being ‘americanized’.
And: Yes we do, but we just call them drive through liquor stores, rather unimaginative…
47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Perhaps, but since when is a grocery bag Southern vernacular?
55% dixie, ok for an oilman’s son
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.
I agree with you. In my experience its North-easterners who say ‘ca-ra-mel’.
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.”
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.”
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.
Perhaps ‘car-a-mel’ is native to New York City or southern California where the TV networks traditionally have been based?
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.”