Yankee or Dixie? Take the test...

I scored 81% Dixie...



What's your score?

I want to know who the hell has drive thru liquor stores? You'd think we'd have them in WI! :beer:

Silly, really.

Being from Michigan, I couldn't believe it. Just the thought of it still cracks me up.

all my relatives are either from Ohio or Connecticut, I still go to Ohio once a year at least! I bet they're hiding this little gem from thier WI relatives, probably afraid we'll all move back if we find out about it;)

I've heard they're in Texas, too.


Actually very convenient.

But I haven't seen one locally in over a decade. They just sold wine, beer and soft drinks. I rather liked being able to pick up a six pack of coke and a pack of smokes on my way home from work without having to get out of my car.

And it's like the bank, they have suckers for your kids and dog treats for your dogs if you have them with ya.

Kind of an odd location, since you really don't need a car for much of anything here.

Also, I scored 34% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

How'd that happen?

(grew up in Michigan)

No surprise there

I found that most were "commonly used throughout the US", some were "Upper Midwest" one was "Midwest and South", and only one ("roly poly", which I learned from my Texas-born babysitter) was particular to the "Southeast", which my part of Arkansas isn't (except for college sports conferences)

So how did I wind up with a 65% Dixie rating? :shrug:

from NC. I've actually done this before, but I think I had to enter my location before.

To be fair, the fact that I had an early New Jersey influence may have screwed up my averages.

From NW Ohio...but lived in Texas (Gasp) for 5 years...y'all know what I mean?

grew up in Maryland so I'm kinda mixed up there too.

How's it going over there?

to hell, about the same as every where else. How goes it in your neck of the woods?

Go figure.

Which isn't a surprise.

Air Force Brat, born in Philly and lived in Virginia, Alabama, North Dakota, etc. I've been around. :-)

I'm from New Orleans, (pronounced Noo Awlinz, not N'awlins). Our dialect is unique. It's a cross between Brooklyn and the Bayou. It's neither Dixie nor Yankee.

Some examples:
toilet = terlet
summer = summa tom

It's impossible to explain phonetically, you have to go there and talk to the locals. To find them you have to get outside the French Quarter (Da Quawta).

And I scored 63% Southern. For some reason I say you guys instead of y'all.

And I had to pick "sub" because they didn't have an option for poboy.

Heh. I grew up down south. The accent is starting to switch though after the years of living here...


Nutmegger is a nickname for someone who lives in Connecticut.

and I've spent the majority of my days in the west.

The six years I spent in Virginia as a kid rubbed of more than I thought. :shrug:


50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.


Fun test thanks!

I scored 47% (barely yankee). I spent my early years in Montana and the rest of my life on the West Coast. I certainly consider myself a yankee.

:-)

That is weird because I live in NC.

I'm from the Midwest...

...I'm a 10th generation western Virginian.

...I'm a 10th generation western Virginian. I am not a racist.

I grew up in Georgia, with Northern parents (we moved there from Pennsylvania when I was five, in 1978).

Like hella totally!

i thought.

who pronounces what like what.

i remember my nana used to call a creek a crick
she called a suitcase a grip or a soot case
she said the word wash like waursh

friend of mine was always amused to hear me say "pop" instead of "soda"

i scored barely yankee (but i'm a chicago burb girl--so that's why they call this the midwest i guess)

the R that they loose in New England when the say caa instead of car, because she doesn't like to waste anything.

My daughter says soda, I say pop kinda interesting indeed.

:)

:)

Yankee = From the north
Damn Yankee = same as above but won't go home. That'd be me!!

Probably due to the fact that my mom's side of the family is from Mississippi, so my "ma-maw" had alot to do with it! lol

fun test, thanks


ps...can I still like Obama? even if I AM a white dixie -chick from Berkeley?

I was born and raised on the New York-Canadian border but have lived out west since 1944.You are where you live!!!

then it asks... "is general lee your father?"

ha ha who knew:shrug:

and I was born and raised a "Joisey Girl" and moved to Florida in 1986. Who knew?

the South of California:evilgrin:

About what I expected. I grew up in the Paific Northwest, but my grandparents on both sides were southern, so some of that sneaks into my speech.

I took the test twice because I use variations of the words. Perhaps it is because I grew in the midwest, spent 8 years in NYC, and went to college in my middle-age. Examples are "car-ml" is the little square candy and "car-a-mel" is the flavor, route rhyming with "clout" is a country road address and route rhyming with "toot" is a highway like Route 66, and I use both "you all" and "you'uns" when I forget about not using it. There are several others, but you get the gest.

Edited for grammer.

Yeeha!

(not yeehaw)

:P Fun test!

I'm a Yankee and grew up in the northeast and live here now but I lived in
the southwest for over ten years. The tester should have asked about 'packie's'! ;)

Must have rubbed off from my Texan father, who also had family in Georgia.:patriot:

Sometimes I had more than one answer. Like them tiny lobsters that crawl around creek bottoms. Sometimes they're crawdads, sometimes crawfish.

:wtf:

LOL :crazy:

I figgered it would be. I've living away from Oklahoma since 87 but still call ladies darlin' and it'll always be y'all.

Heck it works for me. It's just what I am. :)

I sent this link to a friend in boston. Too bad there was nothing in the quiz about paaking your caa or getting a pizzer.

Wonder where this guy would fit in?

Not shocked. Born and raised.

And still voting for a black man. Go figure.

I have been living in this state just too damned long.

Pacific North Western for 90% of my life. Parants North Mid-Western. I am unaware of even a single Southern accented television star I like all that much...well Dr. McCoy from the origional Star Trek series. I despise Presidents from Texas and truth be told I have NEVER even seen Forrest Gump! (Oh and the band that created Freebird is over-rated imo too!) I am calling this survey HUMBUG!

I got a lot of "No Bias" and "Great Lakes Midwestern"

I grew up in SC! Interesting.

But, I did grow up out in the middle of no where. LOL

Native Floridian, but it's South Florida hence the 39% Yankee influence.

Born in the North, grew up in Miami and moved to Atlanta area in 1989. I'm surprised that the Dixie percentage is so low.

I lived in Chicago for 30+ years and moved to NC 20+ years ago. My "Midwestern" is slowly disappearing.

But, hell, ya'll shuat has nown that

Logical, since I'm from the Pacific Northwest. :wtf:

:wtf:

Most of my answers were common to the Michigan/Great Lakes areas, according to the test. Despite the fact that I've never even visited there. :crazy:

:)

Most of mine were common to Michigan (duh), but it said I was 53% Dixie. Odd.

cute test! :hi:

which is strange maybe because I grew up in NJ, and live in CT. Can't imagine 3 years in No. VA could have much effect!

I had to guess on the last question. I don't know from bugs and I don't want to know from bugs, you know?

On edit, maybe not strange, as I've spent some time acting (so accent and pronunciation mattered)... and I never had one of those "Jersey" accents people expect - from TV, usually. None of that "New Yawk" type stuff...

but born and raised in Kansas, a northern state. I don't think I believe the test

Anyone else thinks its a tad biased toward the NE? That wouldn't be because of Harvard did the test now would it?

Youse is a popular plural of you in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. As is 'yelks' for yolks and 'zink' for sink. Did not see any geographical determinations for the 'Fargo' set of which I am most recently descended.

I'm a born and raised Iowan, currently live in Iowa and spent 6 years in WI and 7 years in MN. My in-laws are from southeast MN. I have only ever heard a couple of people use "youse". One was my husband's elderly Norwegian grandmother and there may have been someone in WI who I heard use it once.

There may be small pockets of people using it here and there, but it is not "popular" at all, in my experience. Possibly more in northern MN and parts of WI (like the "Fargo" accent), but in Iowa - no, it's not common or used at all, and pretty rare in southeast MN and western WI. Actually, when I think of it, I think of it more in relation to the "Da Bears" skits on SNL several years ago (which would make it a Chicago thing) or also in connection with "mobster-speak" in the movies.
Sorry, I'm not trying to jump on you, rosesaylavee, it's just that "youse" is one that really grates on me and frankly, I don't want to claim it! :silly:

I've never heard the other examples you gave. I think maybe those things are more typical of the older generations of Scandinavians who still had lingering accents (which would explain my husband's Norwegian grandmother using "youse").

I thought the test seemed to apply a higher weight to the Dixie end of things, even though on most of my repsonses it would say that the term was from the NE or Midwest or Great Lakes region or used throughout the U.S. I managed to come out at 38% (definitive Yankee), but by changing just one or two responses (example - bag and sack are used fairly interchangeably here) it would push me into borderline Dixie range which doesn't make sense.


:)

No offense taken but I disagree. My inlaws and others in Dubuque use that or have used those words. We of course give them a hard time.. especially about youse and yelk. And it is the older members of the family. No Scandinavians. German ancestry mostly. And as my mother (Irish/French) came from southern Minnesota and I am forever accused of being from Minnesota - I am intimatly acquainted with those pronounciations. And as I call on clients in the Southeast all day long, none of them would for a minute think I was from their neck of the woods. :P

I just think the Harvard researchers need to get out more and visit the Midwest to broaden their horizons as far as American dialect goes.

Maybe that explains it. Dubuque did cross my mind as I was writing my reply to you. I know that Dubuque has a rich cultural heritage and thought possibly there could be some dialects going on there. However, I have never actually been there - well, I drove through once. I'm not that far away - NE Iowa, but truly, I've just never heard those pronunciations around here. And I'm of German and Danish descent.

Yes, I can certainly see that Dubuque might be one of those areas with some dialects going on, but I would still not say that the usage is common to all of Iowa.

As I said before, there are some areas in MN and WI where there are also some different dialects - like the stereotypical "Fargo" thing, though usually not as heavy as they made it out to be in the film :eyes: . At least not in my experience. It's mostly that different sounding "O" pronunciation. And it's not prevalent in all areas.

I agree that the test was not entirely perfect. Of course, our language is so complicated and there are more dialects in the U.S. than most of us probably realize or consider. I recently spoke with a German immigrant (came here 18 years ago) and she said the hardest thing to figure out were the figures of speech. For example, her mother-in-law was always saying she had to "run to town" and she was always amazed that her MIL was actually RUNNING to town!:P


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Fargo made me laugh - had no idea we (most of my family) sound like that. Yes, they did go a bit overboard with the accent... but many of my peeps have that oh yah and criminy thing going on.

As for DBQ - it is its own little world. Nice place to visit, but I personally couldn't live there long and keep my mind. It is catching up to the 20th Century so it won't be but a few decades before it finds itself in the 21st.

edit to add: BTW, full use of 'youse' here in Da Bears territory is youse-guys. :P

AND, wouldn't be surprised if we are related as a good portion of my family settled NE Iowa. Hubers, Waters, Gartners.

Youse-guys over der in da Bears area all sound like dat. :P

Bummer - we are probably not related, my family names are Lubbert, Evans (on the German side) and Anderson and Hanson (on the Danish side). But I know that there are actually quite a few Waters here in the town I'm in. And a quick check in the phone book shows that there are several Hubers in some nearby towns.

If you ever meander up this way, give me a shout!:hi:

every June up in the Festina/Decorah area - has been happening for over a hundred years. We went a few times ... I saw my mothers and aunt's signatures in the attendance book from the 30s. It always seems to fall on a weekend we have a dozen other things happening but we do hope to go back up some day. Scary now that we are the older generation. Last time I went, I had two great aunts in the 80s who met us there for the picnic who have now passed.

Very beautiful part of the country.

:hi:

I'm in Waukon, next town to the East of Decorah. Small world, huh?

Yes, it is very beautiful country around here. Decorah, especially. I love it.

Well, if you make it up for that reunion sometime, you know where to find me! :hi:

:wow: I've lived in southern Wisconsin and southern Minnesota all my life..... :patriot:

And proud of it. Dr Pepper is my favorite type of coke, damn right.

Better with salted peanuts in it.

Haven't had one of those in a while - but, being a Texan, I am loyal to Dr Pepper.

;)

:toast:

I am from Pennsylvania, the South of the North, and besides I have relatives in Florida, Alabama and Texas, and the ones in Texas are Mexican, so I may yet be deported as an alien if Panama Jack gets elected.

Si o No?

mark

I grew up in the NE, lived for several years on the West Coast and several more in England, and have spent the last four in FL.

People I've just met often assume I'm from the UK like my husband, until I throw them with a Dixie "y'all" and a NY "tawk" in the same sentence.

:)

:silly:

have no regionalisms. Couldn't find a single answer that said any of those terms were common from Colorado to the eastern California border, or north and south in that area between Canada and Mexico. :shrug:

*Saguaro
*Guacamole
*Tucson
*Nogales?"

There's a definite regional thing with those!

:rofl:

is a coyote a Ki-yo-teee

or is it a Ki-yot (long o and no eeee)

All you really need to know.

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For this Massachusetts resident.

I was born and raised in the south.

Which is odd as through my 4 grandparents I am 5th generation or 4th generation Northern Californian and have lived 47 years in CA split by 8 years in Oregon.

I grew up in Western PA (~20 years) and now live in the DC Metro (~20 years) - which IS south of the Mason-Dixon line. So I guess that's about right.

Take that...Ya'll!

a lot of other wierd words from living in so many different southern states. Try Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. The longest times were in Alabama and Louisiana, where I still live.

:-)

I got "barely into Dixie" but I grew up in Ohio and live in California right now. Most of my answers said "commonly used in the northeast" so I'm not sure how I got Dixie. Ohio is not Dixie.

"Favors Vermont and Western Massachusetts" :D

I can't even imagine what the hell that means? Does everyone eat cabbage so they have a lot of gas for Halloween?

THROW! :bounce:

These days it's mostly just TP-ing though.

Wicked!:-)

:headbang:

Time for a Cheerwine ya'll!!

I just don't like Southern food. :)

:rofl:

Bake

That's what you get when you grow up Wisconsin and drink from a bubbler!

59% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

Seems funny because almost every response was common to either great lakes or NE US.

Fun test, thanks for posting.

Probably the result of being married to a Southerner for 10 years.

They had Sub, Hero, Hoagie, and Grinder but no Po-Boy. Anyone from the south calls that sandwich a Po-Boy.

No choice for me, there. (South La. and New Orleans used the term.)

Apparently I'm 74% Dixie. Me. Born and raised in, and never lived anywhere except, Southwestern PA. I've vacationed at many a southern beach, but never really experienced any of the south outside of tourist areas. How the heck did I end up a southerner? :shrug:

(Not that I'm complaining or anything, I rather like Southerners.)

But not surprising since both my parents grew up in the South.

Nice way to take a time out from the "primary wars" and have a little fun!

:headbang:
rocknation

Maybe Maryland is further south than I thought.

It definitely seems to skew toward Dixie. :shrug:

most of my answers were indicative of midwest/Great Lakes...
I'm from Chicago..

surely not a Yankee..

Does that make sense to Y'all

To us, there are no such thing as Yankees or Dixie's, you're either one of us, or you're one of those "easterners". You easterners get all worked up over lattitude, out west, it's longitude that matters.

"30% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score."

Tried the advanced test:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest_advanced.html

"0% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow?" LOL

Kinda surprising since I've been in school in southern Louisiana since 2005. B-)

about what I'd expect for someone born in New Jersey and living in Maryland the last 20 years.

native Coloradan, so go figure!

:rofl:

Grew up in Maryland.

I guess it's because I've lived in the South East my entire life.

where I'm surrounded by Midwesterners and "Yankees"!

I've lived in NC my entire life. It says "brew thru" is very common in Virginia and North Carolina. I have never heard that term. I didn't even know we had drive through liquor stores. :shrug:

I grew up in the burbs of Chicago and moved to W.NC when I was 28. I an now 58. I came up 100% Dixie. Not a trace of the old home land. The only question that gave me any trouble was: Do you say youse or you'uns. I'm kind of split on that one.

Lots of Midwest/ Great Lakes answers. I have NO idea how it translated to 55% (Dixie).


:shrug:


Laura

Well, born and raised in Texas. What else?

I've lived in the south and south-west but mainly in the Great Lakes north-east. Spot-on, as Ross Perot might say.

nt

Sounds about right. Most people don't have Texas accents there and there's a lot of people from elsewhere.

My dad's side of the family was from the great lakes region .
My mom's side of the family was from the Southeast Alabama.

But both families are in California now and I'm a California Native .

Very cool ...

Well, DUH! LOL

Mixes pronunciation with questionable cultural measures and questions where the answers are not necessarily exclusive. All it's got going for it is the magic word Harvard.

I came out Dixie, which is hilarious if you hear me talk.

but I'm somehow 84% Dixie. LOL. As someone who has studied linguistic drift and historical linguistics, this test is pure crap.

1) pronounce aunt more like the a in "father"

3) we don't pronounce "creek," we pronounce "stream"

7) none of the above, ever, unless I'm imitating someone with a different accent

9) an ITALIAN! (this should be a dead giveaway which stste I live in)



I notice for several of my answers it indicates everywhere in the U.S., but favors the south or the southeast. WTF?

Frankly, I'm not that surprised. I spent my formative years in Tejas, which would affect my vocabulary.

Describes me to a T:

1. My dad was born in Boston.
2. My mom was born in Charleston, WV.
3. I was born in Washigton, DC in 1971.
4. I've lived in the Chicago area since 1975.

:patriot:

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

So I find this quite funny, y'all

I live in Washington state. Weird.

Must have been the y'all and the roly-poly. Most everything else seems to be Great Lakes-ish.