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Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: texasmom 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.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: lasersailor184 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.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: ridley1 on February 26, 2008, 11:26:29 AM: Being from Canada,,,how would I get 57% dixie?
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Post by: C(Sea)Bass 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"
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: eskimo2 on February 26, 2008, 11:33:50 AM: 43% Yank.

What do folks in your area call a snowmobile?
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Jackal1 on February 26, 2008, 11:35:20 AM: Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
What do folks in your area call a snowmobile?

Boat anchor. :)
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: ChickenHawk 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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Post by: Jackal1 on February 26, 2008, 11:39:17 AM: 80% Dixie btw.
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Post by: ridley1 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
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Airscrew 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...
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Thruster 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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Post by: Tarmac 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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Post by: eskimo2 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.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: texasmom on February 26, 2008, 11:45:59 AM: That's what I call them too... snowmachine (one word).
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: eddiek 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.......
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: rpm on February 26, 2008, 12:41:46 PM: Quote
83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
Why as a matter of fact, I do!
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: rpm on February 26, 2008, 12:42:49 PM: Quote
Originally posted by eddiek
never lived outside the state of Texas, dreading moving to OK here in a few weeks.......
What were you convicted of?
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Post by: Kanth on February 26, 2008, 12:44:57 PM: 55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

Got a lot of these:
Used heavily in northeast US and California
Northeast United States and Great Lakes, and west Coast

I'm from Califorinia.
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Post by: Meatwad on February 26, 2008, 12:51:39 PM: 53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: JBA on February 26, 2008, 12:59:14 PM: born in jersey raised in RI, never lived south of Ct for 41 years and I'm 55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. NFW. Most of my answers were of the used in NE type. And I half redneck. BS.:cry
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Post by: Shuffler on February 26, 2008, 01:05:08 PM: 85% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
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Post by: skernsk on February 26, 2008, 01:11:20 PM: 70% Dixie.

It's true' I'm a 'Northern Redneck'
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Post by: Curval on February 26, 2008, 01:16:07 PM: 58% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
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Post by: superpug1 on February 26, 2008, 01:20:40 PM: 78% Dixie. haha
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: SFCHONDO on February 26, 2008, 01:22:24 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ridley1
Being from Canada,,,how would I get 57% dixie?

Maybe because your from Southern Canada :D
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Post by: Mickey1992 on February 26, 2008, 01:23:30 PM: 50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: JB73 on February 26, 2008, 01:25:26 PM: All my life in Milwaukee...

a few sample results:

Most common around the Great Lakes and into the northeast U.S.

Northeast United States and Great Lakes, and west Coast

Western Great Lakes including Chicago and Milwaukee

Northeast U.S. and Great Lakes region

New England and western Great Lakes

Favored in western Great Lakes region

Heavy bias in southern Wisconsin and Massachusetts

notice how many Great Lakes... and I had many "common everywhere" yet my final results were:

43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

:rolleyes:
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: AKIron on February 26, 2008, 01:37:13 PM: 61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Charon on February 26, 2008, 02:01:45 PM: Quote
45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Was born and raised and have lived in the Chicago area all of my life, but both parents were from West Virginia and I spent a lot of time in Tennessee growing up.

What was odd were some of the Northeastern terms I have picked up.

Charon
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Post by: red26 on February 26, 2008, 02:27:11 PM: 63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!<--- thats what they say but I know were Im from THE SOUTH BABY!!!!!!
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Post by: FiLtH on February 26, 2008, 02:59:18 PM: 50% Yankee
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Post by: acfireguy26 on February 26, 2008, 03:03:24 PM: Sweet Home Alabama !

100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
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Post by: Hawker25 on February 26, 2008, 03:12:17 PM: 100% dixie yall
never a doubt in my mind
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Post by: eddiek on February 26, 2008, 04:49:37 PM: Not convicted of anything, rpm.....just needing a change I guess, and I already let my son move up there to get into school so he can spend some time with his brother, so I've been living the "two weeks" deal since mid December, waiting on a house to come available up there. Course, it's always "a couple more weeks" til the land lord knows anything..lol!
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Dux on February 26, 2008, 04:55:07 PM: 48%, Barely Yankee.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Airscrew on February 26, 2008, 05:05:12 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Dux
48%, Barely Yankee.

I think you need to retake the test, you yankee scum... blue belly...
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 26, 2008, 05:08:55 PM: Dont have time right now.
Will havea check out the link later.
But.

Dixie is the ony place I've ever been where the word "you"
Is a two syllable word. LOL
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Barnes828 on February 26, 2008, 05:18:39 PM: 43 % Yankee...
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: justguess on February 26, 2008, 05:22:59 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ridley1
Being from Canada,,,how would I get 57% dixie?
canucks are confused
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: indy007 on February 26, 2008, 05:29:58 PM: I've always been made fun of for saying "y'all"... especially by the Cali hippies in my guild... yet I'm only 55% Dixie.

Some of y'all must be really bad. :lol
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Post by: vorticon on February 26, 2008, 05:35:26 PM: 47% yankee.
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Post by: Masherbrum on February 26, 2008, 06:22:43 PM: 47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
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Post by: Mark Luper on February 26, 2008, 06:31:07 PM: 73% Dixie.

Mark
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Post by: Shamus on February 26, 2008, 07:14:24 PM: 39% Yankee

shamus
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Post by: DieAz on February 26, 2008, 07:35:51 PM: Quote
100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

don't suprise me none.

and no he ain't. he should have went down fighting.

Quote
Dixie is the ony place I've ever been where the word "you" Is a two syllable word. LOL

it ain't?

j/k

but I did score 100% Dixie and it did asked me that.
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Post by: pope14 on February 26, 2008, 08:54:09 PM: 60% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
just right for VA
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Post by: jocko- on February 26, 2008, 09:26:16 PM: 57% Dixie, and yes, I'm from Southern Ontario... Canada.

Ridley, I bet I could hit you with a rock from here (Georgetown).
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Post by: Xargos on February 26, 2008, 09:50:59 PM: 60% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. I spent my youth overseas, so that's no big surprise.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: texasmom on February 26, 2008, 10:03:45 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Xargos
60% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. I spent my youth overseas, so that's no big surprise.

Did you? where?
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: toastman on February 26, 2008, 10:10:37 PM: (60%)dixie

y'all :aok
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Post by: Xargos on February 26, 2008, 10:26:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by texasmom
Did you? where?

Kenitra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenitra) and Sidi-Yahia (http://www.navycthistory.com/sidi_yahia_intro.html) in Morocco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco).

P.S. My mother loved the Sahara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara) and dragged me around all over the place.

Plus, we always had to fly to Europe for my doctor appointments. I was born with cataracts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract) in both eyes and Europe was the closest place.
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: cav58d on February 26, 2008, 11:05:27 PM: I guess i'm a southerner....Born and raised in Connecticut and currently residing hehe...

Two regional words that I would have that to be on that test are "what do you call the liquor store"....Packy is definately very common up here.....Also a 30 pack of beer...."rack".
Title: Yankee or Dixie language test
Post by: Heater on February 27, 2008, 02:59:56 AM: 61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!