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Offline texasmom

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« on: February 26, 2008, 11:18:53 AM »
Are you Yankee or Dixie?


http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

I got 65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I was surprised to see that. Thought for sure that I'm a Yankee.
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Offline lasersailor184

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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 11:24:44 AM »
45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I grew up in the south and the north.  I can often switch in and out of vernacular based off of company.



But I will always call a carbonated beverage a coke.
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Offline ridley1

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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 11:26:29 AM »
Being from Canada,,,how would I get 57% dixie?
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Offline C(Sea)Bass

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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 11:27:13 AM »
44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I never lived farther south than Rhode Island... interesting.

They forgot to ask if I "pahk ma cah in hahvid yahd"
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Offline eskimo2

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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2008, 11:33:50 AM »
43% Yank.

What do folks in your area call a snowmobile?
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Offline Jackal1

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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 11:35:20 AM »
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Originally posted by eskimo2
What do folks in your area call a snowmobile?


Boat anchor. :)
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Offline ChickenHawk

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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2008, 11:36:20 AM »
46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I was very surprised to see so much Great Lakes area influence even though I haven't been there since I was ten.
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Offline Jackal1

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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2008, 11:39:17 AM »
80% Dixie btw.
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Offline ridley1

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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2008, 11:39:22 AM »
Up here...either sleds or ski-doos.  Even if you own an Arctic cat...ya call it a ski-doo. Only because ski-doo was the first one out there.

  Used to really 'p' off my uncle, though...he worked for OMC at the time. Back when outboard marine made evenrude and Johnson snowmobiles
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Offline Airscrew

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« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2008, 11:42:18 AM »
67% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Whats funny is a few of those I have used all those..

20. What's that bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it? (NOTE: This is not a doodle bug (ant lion), which is the larvae of Myrmeleontidae spp.)
Roly poly
Pillbug
Potato bug
Sow bug

except Sow bug,  I've used all those words.

13. What's that road along an Interstate highway?
Frontage road
Service road
Access road
Feeder

this is another one, just depends who I'm talking to and what kind of directions I'm giving, but I've never used Feeder...

12. What is spread onto the tops of cakes?
Frosting
Icing
Don't know
No answer

I've used both Frosting and Icing...

This one had me stumped...
9. What's that long sandwich with lots of cold cuts and toppings?
Sub
Hoagie
Grinder
Hero

I call it a ....  Sandwich ...

another teaser
5. How do you pronounce route?
Rhymes with clout
Rhymes with toot
Either
Don't know

Depends... if its a road, Route (toot) 66,  but a mailman or newspaper boy has a Route (clout)...

Being in the air force for 20 years and a military brat before that I've been exposed to all kinds of different dialects...
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Offline Thruster

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« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2008, 11:43:13 AM »
Got a 60 % Southern, never answered two questions though.

Guess they don't know what po-boys or doodle bugs are.
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Offline Tarmac

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« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2008, 11:43:35 AM »
43% Yankee, although nearly every answer was from the Great Lakes or Michigan regions.  Odd
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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2008, 11:44:52 AM »
In Alaska they are referred to as snowmachines.   Maps, road and trail signs, business names, pretty much everything refers to them as snowmachines.  It wasn't till I left AK that I realized that people didn't know what a snowmachine was or thought it was a snow making machine...  

If you Google the term snowmachine, almost all of the hits are from Alaska.
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Offline texasmom

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« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2008, 11:45:59 AM »
That's what I call them too... snowmachine (one word).
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Offline eddiek

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« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2008, 12:20:05 PM »
Sheesh........83% Dixie here......never lived outside the state of Texas, dreading moving to OK here in a few weeks.......
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