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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion Archive: Archive February 2005: Where does your dialect come from?
Since we've had a few conversations about the dialects around the country, I thought this quiz was fun. Dialect Quiz
75% Dixie. I guess I already knew that.
Interesting!
Oh please!!! I got 42% which means barely yankee!! I've lived in upstate NY my whole life!!
50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
41% here...barely a yankee
59% Dixie????? I grew up in NH and now live in CA! LOL.
66% Dixie! Guess I watched too much Gone With the Wind while growing up in Brooklyn, NY! Never lived anywhere near the South!
81% Dixie and I live in the South.
75% Dixie! Lived in central Texas my whole life - no surprise.
60% Dixie and I'm Canadian!
50% yankee
53% Dixie and I have lived in New England all my life! Go Figure!
49%, Barely Yankee... I've been living in TX too long! Out fo curiosity, I changed the drive through liquor store answer to "I don't know", since I had never heard of these until I vacationed in Nags Head (they have them here too, but not in the N East), and that made me 59% Dixie... go figure!
"46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category."
OMG!
Mine says "barely dixie" and I have only lived in Chicago and SE Pennsylvania. Go figure. I have worked very hard to avoid having a "dialect". In Chicago and much of the northern Midwest people don't have much of an accent, but tend to speak sort of through their noses, but I've avoided that. When I moved to Philadelphia (which is right next to southern New Jersey so the dialects mix), I heard (and hear) lots of stuff which I try really hard to avoid, like:
52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
46% Yankee and I've been in New Hampshire and Ma all my life.
47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
92% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
62% Dixie. A definitive Southern score!
Ginny, my South Jersey great-grandmom used to say "crick" for creek, "wooder" for water (cedar wooder in that crick lol), and other such gems from that area. No matter what ocean or coast I'm talking about, I *still* say "down the shore", which makes most people look at me like I'm from Mars. The ones you mentioned seem odd to me, I keep saying Franklin Institute to see if I say it weird. LOL
89% Dixie
51%" Barely in the Dixie category"
78% Dixie --go figure...lol
Well as a Canadian I rank 50% Yankee.
43% barely a yankee. I grew up in MA until 25 then lived in the south. I'm going to have my kids take the test. They have lived in the south all of their lives. DH grew up in midwest, he'll take the test later.
65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.
55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
93% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
I'm 89% Dixie. I thought it would have been higher. I've only lived in Tennesse and Georgia. And haven't even travelled much up north. No real reason why I haven't travelled north much, just haven't. I'm southern born, southern bred, and when I die I'll be southern dead!
38% definite yankee. I'm 25 and was born and raised in NW Ohio and moved to SW Virginia in 7th grade. Hmmm... But it makes sense because everyone here tells me they can still tell I'm a "yankee"! hehe!
65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
65% Dixie. Even though I am in Chicago now, you can't take the Texas out of a girl!!
48% Yankee (Barely into the Yankee Category) My Southern Grandmother would have been so proud!!LOL
52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
63% Dixie, where is the west coast on this survey anyway.... Lived in Oregon all my life, never been anywhere besides oregon washington california and british columbia.
47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
53% Barely a dixie. I am from the northwest.
94%Dixie!!!! I got the highest score so far. Just by one point but I'm proud anyway. Maybe I don't talk proper, but it's how I was raised and I am proud to be from the panhandle of Texas! I couldn't answer the toilet paper question because we always called it "wrapping" and they didn't have that choice. And most drive thru liqour stores are just convience stores to me although I live in a dry county. Thanks for posting this link. It was fun!
52%Dixie - from Kokomo, IN
70% Dixie here Lived in Georgia all of my life.
It says I'm barely yankee. ROFL - I've lived in Louisiana for 99% of my life! Never been north ever! Crystal - maybe it's from you???
Could be... I notice some of your sayings rubbed off on me! BTW, I was wondering where you had gone off to, haven't "seen" you around in a while!
57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
69% (dixie), but I was born adn raised here in Washington, DC. But my mom and other older family members are all from NC, so I guess I picked up from them.
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