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60% Dixie, but I was born in CT! :D
I think I've been in Texas too long! :) |
65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I was expecting a higher southern score since I have lived between Carolinas my entire life. |
I agree that there were some choices that actually didn't include the term I actually use - yes, it is "wrapping a house" in Texas. Considering that I was an Air Force brat who moved all over, from New Jersey to Florida and points inbetween, I guess my 70% is pretty good.
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71% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
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she said this is a "water fountain" http://www.discount-pumps.biz/TWIRLWATER-fountain.gif I told her it's just a "fountain" |
I got: "84% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?"
Not entirely unexpected ... :rolleyes: |
63% Dixie......not surprised. I still haven't broken myself of "y'all" even 10 years after moving from Texas.
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This isn't really your accent, this is what words you use. |
32% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.
Not a surprise; I've lived in New England (CT and MA) my whole life. |
46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Is the West coast really Yankee? |
65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I've been in Texas too long :o |
44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. I don't know how I'm barely there. My family is all from NY, I was born in CT, and I was raised from the age of 2 in southern California. My mom does't have an NY accent, and my dad's only emerges on the words coffee, dog, and film (pron fillum). Weird.
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53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
Like many others, I don't really get mine either. My family has been in Florida since 1840ish. And my extended family is from Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. |
64% dixie
not that i was surprised in the least bit. |
84% Dixie.
Yup, that's about right (here my whole life except the two years in Joisey;)) |
91% Dixie.
You "roll" someone ones house. Bubbler, wtf? And, the conversation you'll only here in the South A: I'm going to the store, do you want anything. B: Yeah, bring me a coke. A: Ok, what kind? B: Dr. Pepper. And lastly, when people say "you guys" it drives me insane, our Greek adviser, who is from texas, so I don't quite understand the lack of yall in his vocabulary, uses you guys and it makes me long to choke the guy. |
24% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score.
yesssss <3 and question number 7 was the greatest. the only problem, is that it is spelled yinz, not yins. i wont argue too much, I was just proud to see western PA pop up there!:D |
I remember my mom asking, "Do ya's want some sodee pop"? It was more like "yuz" rather than "youse". Maybe it was an Illinois thing from the '50's.
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Maybe we've been rubbing off on you in the blah, blah, blah, SEC threads. |
Praytell Benzgirl, what is an "Eastern" accent? The New England, NY/NJ, Philly, Pittsburgh, Southeastern, and godawful Baltimore are pretty distinct from each other, so I'm curious as to what constitutes an Eastern accent. I was told by BetteDavisEyes last week while we were at Convention together that I have an Eastern accent, but I can't really figure out what that means (and she couldn't explain).
40% Yankee for me. Makes sense, since Maryland is a border state but slightly more Northern. |
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I'm Canadian and got 62% Dixie. Must be the Y'all thing (honestly, I tend to use PEOPLE when referring to a large group, but PEOPLE wasn't a choice.)
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Believe me, I can recognize many of those you have mentioned. I lived in Baltimore for a short time and spent a lot of time in NY and the Boston area. I work with loads of people from Pitt and attended school with many from Maine and Connecticut. The are all different |
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73% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
Only two problems with this quiz 1) I have always called rolly pollies doodle bugs I didn't even know that there was an actual bug called a doodle bug, and 2) Toilet Papering someones house is called wrapping. (It seems several other people agree with me) |
51% Dixie- with only one characteristically southern response. :rolleyes: My fiancee and I have the soda/pop and couch/sofa/davenport debates often though we've both lived our entire lives in the midwest (Illinois, Iowa, SoDak).
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53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
Might surprise some of y'all but I think that's cuz most of my accent is more "Hill-Country" southern, rather than Delta "low-country" Southern. |
75% Dixie
I woulda had a different score if I hadn't seen the choices, lol. |
100% DELICIOUS, which is really all that matters.
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I got 45% Yankee but my question is.. What am I 55% of??
-On a side note I did see some questions mention Great Lakes area dialect, so maybe that comes into play with the unknown 55% |
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I don't quite get the scoring either though and figured, like you did, that the rest was Great Lakes. |
60% (Dixie). Although I grew up in southern california I was raised in a very southern Tn/GA/SC family. Where PEcan is a word and no the snooty fahooty peCAAAAAN. My accent on words derives from family members i talk with and college down south.....to this day i cannot kick Y'all or reckon so from my vocab!
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99% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
And 33girl is right. This has nothing to do with your accent, but the words you use. For example, my accent is not as pronouced as it use to be. However, most of the time, I still use the same phrases as I did growing up. Such as: "I'm fixin' to go get a cherry coke-a-cola. Y'all want one?" As such, it is more my turn or phrase - and to a lesser degree, my *soft* Southern accecent (rural twang after a few bourbons) - that clues most people in that I am a Southerner. |
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