Yankee or Dixie???
 

When I first entered college, I met this guy in one of my classes. He had a very strong (what I thought was) Eastern accent. Since our college was very popular with students from New York, I figured he was from somewhere outside of the City.

Finally, one day I asked where he was from and his response was, "da Heights". "Da where?" I didn't realize that was Cleveland's way of distinguishing Cleveland Heights vs. Shaker Heights, University Heights or any of the other Heights in the area. But, where did "da" come from (pre-Soprano's).

Now that I live here, I hear the "Cleveland Accent" every day. We live in "Clevelun", attend "claaaass", and rock is pronouced "rack". Not meaning to tease my co-workers, I have tried to figure out this regional accent. Here is a fun quiz to determine your accent

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelli...ixie_quiz.html

I'm only 39% Yankee, but a definitive Yankee.

53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

70% - well, you guess:rolleyes:

41% (Yankee).

There were two questions that threw me:
-TP'ing is somthing we always did., but our family in Texas called it "wrapping". Not a choice.
-When I address a group of people, it's You, not You guys, not You all, not Y'all and certainly not Youse or Yuns. Not a choice, and no appropriate choice.
-A bug that rolls into a ball is officially a "curly bug".

60% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

I’ve always called toilet papering someone’s house…wrapping, shame it didn’t make the list. But I was glad to see Houston get the nod for the use of the word feeder; it always makes for some confusing looks when I give directions to someone from out of town.

I guess after 10 years in Connecticut, the saying's true: You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.

100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

Also, we called the bug either roly polies or doodle bugs, but question said they weren't doodle bugs. I guess they never played with my friends growing up.

61% Dixie. (I'm originally from St. Louis, MO) :)

I got a 70% southern score yet, I've never been south of Urbana Champaign IL. I guess it's southern of the North Pole.

Why is it called frontage road? And where are drive through liquor stores found? I've never heard of those!

Wow, i'm pretty shocked. I actually thought i'd score more towards the Yankee side, but i'm....

72% Dixie.

I'm Texas born and bred!

In Texas we have Beer Barns. Its just a huge barn that you drive into, you tell them what you want & they'll bring it to your car. We also have liquor stores that have a drive-thru lane (like a fast food place would have).

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I'm sure I've taken this quiz before, but whatever.

I got 73% (Dixie) :(

That hurts. I consider myself to have been raised in the North. I tell everyone that my home town is Minot, North Dakota. Oh, well. Lots of people tell me I have a very neutral accent.

That's nuts. I'm 60% Dixie. I grew up in California, but learned most of that terminology from my mom who was raised in the South. :rolleyes:

58% Dixie. :( noo yawker all day!

Haha. Guess I better move!

I grew up calling it BOTH a rolly polly and a pill bug. whatev.

If you touch 'em, they roll into a ball:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/271/

well stop going around touching bugs. nasty.

78% Dixie!

You haven't lived if you haven't had a little roly-poly bug-ball in your hand! :p

LOL. Geez, yeah, touchy about their bug pictures, aren't they? Fixed it with a link instead.

that link is dead too (well no image), but these bugs look like something youd eat on Fear Factor. or coated in chocolate and considered delicacies.

80% (Dixie). And I've only ever called them roly polies.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ulgare_001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...p_for_wiki.jpg

It's funny to me that, as a child, you never question the world around you and you never think that other people don't experience things just like you do.

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Funny. I grew up (and still live in during the summer) in Southern Illinois near St. Louis, yet still speak with a Southern accent! I guess we really aren't true Illinoisans!

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. :DIt was nice to see the word Grinder for sandwich on the list!

64% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

I'm not ashamed of it. (Although some on here act like they're too good to be using Southern dialects...)

47% Yankee (Barely)

Born in Ohio

Lived there
Baltimore
Milwaukee**
Detroit
NYC
Denver

**And, yes, I do know what a "bubbler" is.

I got "59% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category."

Rolie Polies are the stuff of life! We used to run around the soccer field, lifting up rocks looking for them (and ladybugs).

Is that what a doodle bug is? I thought it was just a cute nickname--it never occurred to me it might be an actual bug.

Waaaay doun' Souf in DIXIE!!!

Welp, my mom's from Georgia and my Dad's from FLO-RID-A (outta Panama City) and both grands were from Georgia (Nelson, GA) and Florida (Quincy, FL), respectively; guess that pretty much makes me a Southern Gal... The funny part is my parents lived in California for 40 years and ain't neva, eva gonna loose dey accents... And my grandmother actually still responds to crazy comments with "Sho Nuff"?

My score:

Hey, I ain't jokin' I got Confederate Officers runnin' up in my family... All them Irish folks, too... LOL... My mom's biological father's name was "Dunn" but that's not on her birth certificate...

91% Dixie.

Although, as someone else said, in Texas we called putting toilet paper in people's yards "wrapping." Not a choice.

And no childhood could have been complete without catching and being fascinated by the roly poly. Ah, memories.

100% Dixie. No wonder the Germans look at me so funny!

Southern Illinois is Dixie at the very tip. Many of the people there did fight on the Dixie side of the war, even though they were in a free state.

I thought I'd won until I saw your score!

Here's mine:

96% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

Probably not significantly different! I really thought I was going to be barely southern. I live in the Maryland now, and EVERYONE comments on my accent, which I don't hear at all. I guess I really do sound southern.

I thought doodle bug first, but I agree that they are interchangeable. I like doodle bug more, though!

40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

There were a couple of things that there really wasn't an answer.

69% Dixie

83% Dixie! :p