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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1566
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 10:48 am: |     |
http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
Alls Well That Ends Well. Playing through March 7. info at http://www.hometown.aol.com/theatr1010/ |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 435
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:29 pm: | |
52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
THis is GREAT! I spent many years in the only state east of the Mason Dixon line (Delaware), but...My deceased father was from a farm/carpenter family in Woodstock NY. My mother was from Northern NH, daughter of Russian immigrants. Went to school in Lewiston NY, Scotch Plains NJ, Newark,DE. All in all, my Delaware-ness brought me down south a bit I guess. It was fun seeing how one's choices in this quiz relate to parts of the country. |
amandacat
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Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 369
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:37 pm: | |
I came out barely dixie (55%) which is totally ridiculous considering my background: lived in Queens from birth until age 6, raised in Mahhattan, college in Albany (NY, not GA), then back to the metropolitan area (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Montclair, and now Maplewood). Go figure . . . |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1648
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:40 pm: | |
49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
I am a born and bred New Englander (Mass) with some family roots in Wisconsen and Minnesota. I remember the first time I called a water fountain a bubbler and people looked at me cross-eyed. What's a Roly Poly/ Sow Bug/ Potatoe bug?? |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 973
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:46 pm: | |
53% Dixie...guess its attributed to my roots being from one of the most southern parts of New York City. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 2013
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:49 pm: | |
Interestingly enough, when I answered based on the pronunciations I used growing up in Ohio, I was a definite Yankee. When I answered based on what my mother calls my "NY accent" (I've been here 20 years), I came out 55% - borderline Dixie. Methinks the survey cannot handle the New York accent. |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1964
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 1:07 pm: | |
I'm 44% Yankee (phew!) |
Lizziecat
Citizen
Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 171
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 1:09 pm: | |
49%, barely into the Yankee categoy. I'm a native New Yorker, and have never lived anyplace except New York or New Jesey for longer than treee months. But I majored in English and linguistics in college, so maybe that had some effect. Go figure. |
Spare_o
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Username: Spare_o
Post Number: 18
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 1:14 pm: | |
My score makes me barely a Yankee which is accurate since I have lived in NJ for nearly 10 years and I am from California! |
Gene Z
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Username: Genez
Post Number: 8
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 1:54 pm: | |
Great fun, but:
I scored 50%, barely Yankee. However, I was born & raised in Chicago (tho I say "soda," not "pop") and have lived in Maine, CT, NY, and now in Maplewood for the past 21 years!
Maybe it's becuz we recent bought retirement land in southern North Carolina.
BTW: who knows the plural of "Y'all?" This is not a trick question.
Z |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 758
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 2:00 pm: | |
all Y'all |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 944
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 2:01 pm: | |
80% dixie, or 100% dixie.
The only dixie I knew growing up was "dixie cups."
My guido brother would laugh his a$$ off! |
Gene Z
Citizen
Username: Genez
Post Number: 9
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 2:07 pm: | |
Brett got it.
I attended a meeting down there recently and actually heard it used! "We'd like to welcome all Y'all to our little get together."
I'm gonna hafta lern a noo lingo.
Z |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 31
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 2:08 pm: | |
I know you almost as long as your guido brother - and I am laughing my @$$ off too.
Except I shouldn't -
I got 63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! |
Sylad
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Username: Sylad
Post Number: 304
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 2:13 pm: | |
100% Sox fan |
clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 142
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 3:03 pm: | |
49% Yankee. Born in Boston, spent childhood in connecticut and teenage / young adult years in Maryland. After that lived in Ontario, Ohio, and Michigan, before moving here.
What I am steamed about: They don't give "tonic" as an alternative to "soda." Mind you I say "soda", but my mom wouldn't be able to answer this question.
"wicked" appears nowhere. "keener" appears nowhere - hey this is biased against Canadians! |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 477
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 3:13 pm: | |
clkelley-I think there's a little more to this not giving tonic as an alternative to Soda. Back in the 40's (before I was born but My Mom tells this story) Dr. Brown (famous N.Y. Soda company, still going but I think it's now owned by Coke or Pepsi-shame) made a Soda called Dr. Brown Cel-Ray Tonic. Dr. Brown I believe got in trouble with the medical establishment for calling a soda a "tonic" and were forced to change the name to Cel-Ray Soda (They still make this). |
clkelley
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 143
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 3:38 pm: | |
The medical establishment??? I'd think it would be Seagram's or whoever makes what the rest of the world calls "tonic." (as in, gin and.) Anyway in Boston, there is no "soda", there is only "tonic." At least, such is the case among my many Boston relatives. I haven't lived there since I was a baby ... and that was quite some time ago ... :-) |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1969
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 3:47 pm: | |
but "yins" got on!! lol |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4761
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 3:50 pm: | |
I think the test is biased towards Dixie. All my answers but one were northern or countrywide and I still came out only 49% Yankee. 
Years ago there was a professor from Northwestern who had a few moments of fame because he appeared on Johnny Carson (yeah, I know I am old) and in about thirty seconds could determine where someone was from within about a 100 mile radius.
Born in upstate NY, grew up in Albany, Chicagoland and Suburban Connecticut. Went to college in Indiana and have lived in the NY area since. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 2019
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 4:10 pm: | |
Huh. I always thought it was "celery tonic".
On another note - my mom always referred to any soda as "coke". As in "what kind of coke do you want? 7-up? grape? root beer? And this was Northern Ohio!
The weirdness of the area I grew up in is that many, many southerners came north to work in the steel & rubber industries. So, there are many "southernisms" that are woven into the immediate area I came from. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4764
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 4:22 pm: | |
How far south in OHio are you from? I noticed during my stay in central Indiana that a lot of folks from down on the river sure talked southern. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 760
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 4:24 pm: | |
The could have cut it short with one question.
What is Pork Roll? |
Gene Z
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Username: Genez
Post Number: 10
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:12 pm: | |
bobk,
Was the Professor's name 'enry 'iggins?
Z |
Barb
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Username: Flannery
Post Number: 81
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:47 pm: | |
56% Dixie.
Born in Georgia.
Raised in Illinois.
Seems about right to me, ya'll. |
emmie
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Username: Emmie
Post Number: 256
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:06 pm: | |
That was fun. 62% Dixie, also about right for me. Born in North Carolina, raised in Texas but have been in the East for a long, long time.
I used to say "Y'all" all the time but had to get rid it real fast when we first moved to Boston. I called and invited a couple that my X hubby went to high school with over for dinner. I said something like "why don't y'all come for dinner?" And they all did, they brought all his old high school crowd! I was really ticked and I thought...how very rude these Bostonians are! Then my X reminded me that I had said "y'all" and thats probably what they thought I meant. Fortunately, I had made chille and there was enough to go around. I also learned the "correct" pronunciation of "aunt" while living in Boston and yes, it rhymes with want. |
Redsox
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Username: Redsox
Post Number: 423
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:07 pm: | |
35%
let's burn down georgia
real yankees are sox fans |
imacgrandma
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Username: Imacgrandma
Post Number: 224
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 9:24 pm: | |
65% Dixie. Oh, well. I did go to college in Virginia, university in North Carolina and a good bit of backpacking along the AT. Sister lives in NC, have kids in Tx, but I've always considered myself a Northeasterner. |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 117
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 9:33 pm: | |
I'm a Texan, the best country there is. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 764
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 10:51 pm: | |
44% (barely Yankee). Grew up in New Jersey and lower New York State but did spend 5 years in Baltimore and 8 years in Chicago. (And a couple in Oregon, but I don't think it influenced my speech much.) And my mother passed on regionalisms that she picked up from all over. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4767
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 8:26 am: | |
So Kathy, do you say sneakers or tennis shoes? When we moved to Chicago when I was 12 nobody knew what sneakers were. Also, a jelly donut is a Bismarck and twenty is pronounced tweny. Kids thought I was German because to them twentee sounded foreign. |
thegoodsgt
Citizen
Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 396
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 8:45 am: | |
I don't need no test to know who I am. Yankee born and Dixie raised! |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 403
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 6:25 pm: | |
74% Dixie - not a surprising result for me.
My husband was born & raised in NJ, but when he was in high school, his dad was temporarily relocated to a southern state, some of the students there thought he was from England because he pronounced all the sylables in a word (ie: probably) Too funny! |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 978
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 9:38 pm: | |
71% Dixie ... to be expected since I was born and raised in Texas. (Although I will admit to intentionally picking the "Texas" answer on a couple of questions where my usage has evolved over the years and goes back and forth at times. i.e. Cot/Caught, Y'all/You all, soda/Coke, bag/sack) But, I tried clearing and changing my answers on several and still came up 69% southern, so I guess that's where I am linguistically, if not geographically.
I must say that there were several questions where the "correct" answer was nowhere to be found, however. For example, the toilet paper job on the houses when I was in high school was called "wrapping a house" and where was "You guys" (the non-Southern answer) for the group of people? And we called those long sandwiches "Po Boys" (I'm not sure why, but I think it might be of Cajun origin.)
This was fun! |
joy
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Username: Joy
Post Number: 141
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 8:39 am: | |
57% Dixie - and I have no idea why. Born in Mass - moved to Yonkers. The long sandwiches were called wedges. Never spent any time south of the mason-dixon line - although we did go to a county fair in Hunterdon County once - and thought the mason-dixon line came as north as 78! And if they asked what a sloppy joe was - I would have answered ground beef and tomato sauce on a hamberger bun... |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4786
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 9:22 am: | |
Actually the Mason Dixon line cuts through NJ just nort of Cape May.
Another trivia fact brough to you by Bobk Trivia Store, Inc. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 767
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:29 pm: | |
BobK, I say 'sneakers' but I think that my Chicago-born-and-raised hubby says 'gym shoes'. |
kathy
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Username: Kathy
Post Number: 768
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:32 pm: | |
I think that "Yankee" versus "Dixie" is a false dichotomy and leaves out a lot of regional variations. For example, the flat 'a' sound that spreads from the Midwest across through upstate New York. Consider the words 'marry', 'merry' and 'Mary'. Do you pronounce them in three different ways, or all the same? In Chicago they are all pronounced like 'Mary'. But that's neither "Yankee" nor "Dixie". |
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