Yankee or Dixie?

Spoonman
Spoonman Posts: 135
edited July 2011 in The Clubhouse
A little quiz to test your dialect. 78% Dixie here :)

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited February 2004
    40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,500
    edited February 2004
    61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2004
    100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

    This is no BS Y'all! This was my actual score (one time only)! :D

    Now...I'm going to put my tennis shoes on and go to the store over by the access road go get a sub and a coke and a piece of cake with that icing I like and put them in a bag ( I hope they have a water fountain there because I'm really thirsty). After that I may stop by the creek and catch a few crawdads and roly poly bugs before I go roll a friend house. Later Y'all.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited February 2004
    45% Yankee. I don' think this applies too well to the Pacific Northwest.
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  • Loud & Clear
    Loud & Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited February 2004
    41% Yankee.

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  • phoneisbusy
    phoneisbusy Posts: 867
    edited February 2004
    40% yankee...
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited February 2004
    hey they had a michigan spisific anser on there cool
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  • TrappedUnder Ice
    TrappedUnder Ice Posts: 975
    edited February 2004
    Yankee parents...Dixie by heart!
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2004
    55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

    30 years in Texas has undone most of my proper Ohio upbringing, y'all...:)
    More later,
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited February 2004
    47% yankee but have never lived north of Denver...
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited February 2004
    49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

    I found that a lot of the words that are used commonly around this area of PA were catagorized in a different part of the US....
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • warviper
    warviper Posts: 585
    edited February 2004
    Lol 61% Dixie and I always make fun of southerners.
    Wish I was a polkologist then I could call my self Dr.warviper.
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  • TN_Polk_Lover
    TN_Polk_Lover Posts: 243
    edited February 2004
    86% Dixie. I was raised in Columbus, GA lived there until age 34. Moved to RI and lived there for 5 years, then moved to Nashville area.

    I have always been facinated by differences in accent and dialect. After I moved to RI and then talked to someone from the southeast, I was amazed at how well I could tell if they were from GA vs NC vs TN vs AL, etc. I had not really thought about the differences much until I moved to RI.

    As small a state that RI is, there were several distinct accents there. In the western rural area of RI, the accent was more of a "neutral" northern accent, much like CT. In the town of Cranston, there was a distinct very heavy nasal accent. Even people who lived there would make fun of having a nasal accent. The rest of RI had an accent very much like Boston. Paaaaa(r)k your caaaaa(r) in Haaaaaa'va(r)d yaaaaaa(r)d.

    But it was only in RI that I heard the term Bubbler (pronounced bubblaa - the "r" almost silent) used for a water fountain.

    The hardest thing for me to change in RI was to stop saying that I was "fixin" to do something. People looked at me really funny. I had to stop referring to the thing on the back of my car with the numbers on it as a "tag" because no one knew what I was talking about. It is called a license plate or registration plate. In the grocery store when I pushed the "buggy" people gave me strange looks. I finally started using the term "cart". And two cars don't have a "wreck" they have an "accident".

    I would refer to the machine that you put money in to get a "Coke" as a drink machine. In RI "drink" usually always implies an alcoholic drink. So people would look at me funny when at 10:00 AM in the morning I'd say something like " . . . be back in a minute, I'm gonna' go get a drink." Now, in the South if someones says "Let's go drinkin'", you know by the context that you mean alcohol. But a drink can be a "Coke". So, in RI I finally started using the term "soda" when referring to a soft drink.

    But I ramble on . . .
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2004
    46% yankee, i live in nY
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  • pjdami
    pjdami Posts: 1,894
    edited February 2004
    72% Dixie. Why ain't I surprised?:D
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2004
    If a Southern girl has class, she must have some Yankee in her.

    That was just meant in jest, keep your bloodhounds offa me you freaks :D I am a hybrid apparently...yuk, I was hoping for 100% Yankee, but alas......
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2004
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    If a Southern girl has class, she must have some Yankee in her.
    If a southern girl has some yankee in her...;) ...she has NO class!
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2004
    How about this, Southern girls like Swallows, and Yankee girls like Pigeons....
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  • Spoonman
    Spoonman Posts: 135
    edited February 2004
    The hardest thing for me to change in RI was to stop saying that I was "fixin" to do something. People looked at me really funny.


    Ha! Boy do I know what you mean. Living in NC for about 10 years I am very familiar with the term "fixin". Wadder is another term most northerners don't understand. :)

    Glad to see we have a good mix here on the board. Now if we could just get the Yankees to speak properly ;)
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited February 2004
    LOL ...

    The one I always found of interest that does seem to be regional that wasn't in that little quiz was what do you call the thing on top of your house that keeps the rain from comin in (Roof) ...

    1. Pronounced like aloof or an -ew- sound ...
    2. Pronounced like rough or ruff ... my dog has this pronunciation down perfect, my wife who is from the midwest is a close second.

    The two words that I hear people mush the most which do not appear to be related to region of the country or level of education or anything else I've been able to discern are ...

    across - which lots of people seem to want to add a "t" to i.e. it's acrost the tracks ...

    idea - which lots of people seem to want to add an "r" to i.e. hey, I got a great idear.
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  • okbrewer
    okbrewer Posts: 20
    edited February 2004
    79% Dixie! Oh, no! I've been in OK too long! Born in PA and lived in MA but spent most of my life in OK, so I guess it musta rubbed off on me.
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  • wodom1
    wodom1 Posts: 1,054
    edited February 2004
    73% Dixie.

    Lived in Southern Louisiana for 22 years (Thibodaux--20, Baton Rouge--2) and now IL. My girfriend gets irritated when I ask her if she wants a coke. She says yes, then I ask what kind. That drives her insane as Coke is the actual brand of Coca-Cola to her, but to me coke is any carbonated bev. She's trying to get me to change to 'pop.' She also thinks it's weird when I say 'buggy' when we're at the grocery store rather than 'cart.'

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited February 2004
    69% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited February 2004
    Pop ? ... hmmm ... there's another one I hadn't heard until I met my wife, who's from the midwest. Prior to that I thought pop was just a synonymous with dad.
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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited February 2004
    50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Airplay where in NY?
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited February 2004
    49% Yank... the little bug name got me though. If its what I'm thinking we called them water bugs which was not a selection.

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  • weavercr
    weavercr Posts: 289
    edited February 2004
    48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited February 2004
    I'm a Midwestern boy and I scored: 41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

    Fair enough.
    I noticed they didn't have a car racing category (hmmmmmm... sounds like a poll in the making) :D
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited February 2004
    58% dixie
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited February 2004
    I'm 79% dixie!! American by birth, southern by the grace of God!

    I'm fixin' ta eat breakfast and then I'll get a drink from a water fountain after I complete my route of service roads. Later, I'll get a sub and a caramel frozen mug sunday from Cracker Barrel. Then I'll visit my Aunt who lives down by the creeeeek; by then, I'll need to put on my pajamas and hit the old cot. Since I sold my old gymn shoes in a yard sale, I'll get some more, and the folks down at the store'll put 'em in a bag. I'd hate to find some roly polies in my icin'.
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