Heed their warning not to click on other answers and to refresh the test if you need to change. (I turned up Yankee the first time...heaven forbid!)
95% Dixie...my dad would be so proud!
Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :
45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
I think it may have been confused by the fact I've live around people from all over(military). And have lived a few distinct places myself.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
60% (Dixie) Barely into the Dixie category
See? Florida is not a southern state.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
63% Dixie
I'm NOT a Southerner. Not.
In fact, most of my answers seemed to favor the North, so I don't understand what happened.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I'm 47% Yankee -- i.e. barely Yankee.
Unsurprisingly, five of my answers are "centered heavily on the Great Lakes region" -- which is, as we all know, the only REAL region.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
73%
Florida is a southern state.
Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
Hmmm... a Canadian who is a Dixie. Me wonders about this test Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
No, zgator. Florida is a wannabe northern state. Posted by Tresopax (Member # 1063) on :
72% Dixie
I suppose that makes sense for a person hailing from Northern Virginia, and who is 1/2 Southerner geneticly.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
As long as nobody suggests that Florida is a wannabe Great Lakes region state, I'm OK.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Maybe it's just because I grew up in Tampa.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
52%
Not surprising, since I've spent 5 years of my life in the SE, 5 in the NW, 3 in the MW, 7 in the SE, and 5 in the NE.
But I've never lived in the Great Lakes region, which seemed to be where most of my choices were described as being from. *shrug*
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
45% I don't like the last question, because I've never heard of any of them. And on most of them there are several answers I could pick. For number 7 I need one of the choices to be "Hey! You! Yeah, all of You!" Hmmm... I just took it again, got more responses as Northeast, and am now 52%
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I'm also 47% Yankee, which is surprising since I grew up in Virginia (and not near Washington, either).
But my parents are both from the Bronx, so it makes sense.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I'm pretty sure I used "crayfish", "crawfish", and "crawdads" in the same conversation at one point in my life, much to the confusion of the silly Californians who had no idea what any of them were.
And I rotate between "roly-poly" and "pillbug" depending on how unsophisticated I feel like sounding.
And I disagree that tennis shoes, running shoes, and sneakers are one in the same. Sneakers are lounging shoes, tennis shoes are for athletics (minus running), and running shoes are super-light low-tops.
But what the hell...
*hoists Confederate flag*
Yeeeeha!
Posted by Tzadik (Member # 5825) on :
54% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. pretty good for an european dude Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
I think it's a testament to the greatness of tennis as a sport that one of the generic terms for athletic shoes is tennis shoes.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
60% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
All the answers that were not Dixie belonged to the Great Lakes region. I think... spending a year and a half doing nothing but talking to Michiganders affected my speech more than I thought.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
45% Though I don't know why so many of mine said Great Lakes. My mom is from Utah. My dad learned English as an adult, but never lived in the great lakes area. Though my husband's father was from Iowa.
If this test were for my dad, it would include these questions: What do you put a hot pan on? a Travix
What is a kid that complains about a sibling? A tittle tat
But I think but of these usages were in moments of stress.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
No, I think it's the skirts that make tennis a great sport.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:Michiganders
Is that really what they call themselves?
I'd just call myself a "Mich".
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Yankees don't have a cool yell. We just have eYaagh.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Born and bred New Englander... And I got slightly _Dixie_. Part of this is because my speech is largely vanilla, though I identified (and used to use) many of the northeastern terms, and partially because I'd never seen the bug in the last question, and it didn't have an opt out answer.
It seemed a few of my SE US answers were weighted more strongly than my NE US answers...
-Bok
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Oh, and I think they have their "pajamas" answer messed up. I've never heard anyone around here say it as paJAMas, as opposed to the other option.
-Bok
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
I do admit that I look good in a skirt, but I don't think it's fair to say that's what makes tennis great.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Frisco: I couldn't make that up. I'd never be so cruel.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote: 65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I should've been more southern!
Apparently a lot of the stuff I say is midwestern. I kinda thought more stuff would be northern, since that's where my family and a lot of people I know are from. But I'm a real southerner! Honest!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I think the answers are heavily midwestern. There's a possible "you are from the midwest/Great Lakes" answer to almost every question.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
quote:100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
Posted by Banna_Oj (Member # 6207) on :
57% dixie. This doesn't surprise me since most of the words I learned from my mother who is definitely Dixie.
AJ
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
44%. "Barely into the Yankee category." Not too surprising, considering I'm from a town on the PA border with Maryland.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*stretches in satisfaction* I'm still a Chicago girl at heart. Three of my answers specifically said "Chicago" while a bunch of others said "Great Lakes etc." That makes me happy.
45% Yankee, barely Yankee.
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
Aw... too bad. Bernard and Correlle must be rubbing off on me. I'll bet my father would have a larger score.
::giggles slightly:: Beer thru. We call those just 'drive thrus' here.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
86% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
What can I say? My mother's mother's mother came from Ohio. We're new here. Almost yankees.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"I've never heard anyone around here say it as paJAMas, as opposed to the other option."
Wow. Everyone I know says "paJAMas." Except my mom, who's from Boston and says "paJAHMas."
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I took it again, answering the other way on one that was so borderline I couldn't decide the first time (caramel). I finally decided that I'm saying three syllables, you just can't hear them. Anyway, when I did that it came out 92% (Dixie). (Is General Lee your father?) So that's a lot better.
The one I didn't feel was true was the route thing. I say paper route (rhymes with out) and my friend from the northeast says paper "root". Yet it said my way was most common to the Northeast US. Is that true? How do you pronounce route, and where are you from?
I had no idea that people from other parts of the country didn't call it rolling a yard. <laughs> Would you understand what was meant when that term was used, at least? Most of them were like that for me. That I would have chosen a different word (sack for bag, for instance) but understand and recognize that people in the rest of the country don't say it that way.
A paper sack is the ordinary thing to call it around here, though some people do say bag. (To me, a bag implies something softer and less square.) But I know that if I'm traveling and I ask for a sack for my purchases in a convenience store, they will not understand what I have asked. <laughs> I know this but I have a hard time remembering which it is I'm supposed to not say.
I love stuff like this. I love learning about regional variations in language. Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
68% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
The majority of my life has been lived in upstate New York. Another 5 years in Denver. Been living in the Chicago area since September 1997.
Maybe it's all the southerners here on Hatrack.
Y'all are having an effect on me. Posted by Anti-Chris (Member # 4452) on :
52% Dixie.
::shrug::
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"I had no idea that people from other parts of the country didn't call it rolling a yard."
In fact, I've NEVER heard it called that; I would have been baffled if someone used the phrase. Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
Barely Dixie. 59%
Raised in Virginia, lived in Kansas for 36 years.
And it is CRAY FISH, not CRAW DAD....so there.
Posted by Anti-Chris (Member # 4452) on :
It is SO crawdad.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
61% dixie. Sounds about right...I was raised there but have lived all over...tons of different influences.
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
Anti-Chris
"It is SO crawdad."
Oh, yeah? You wanna make somethin of it?
Seriously... Isn't midwestern American English about as close as we come in this country to having a standard, television announcer type, of spoken language?
edited to add a word
[ February 20, 2004, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: screechowl ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Yes. The Midwestern dialect is considered pretty close to neutral.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
58% Dixie. Well, Missiouri is a border state, meaning we agreed with the southerners during the civil war, but didn't have the desire to fight with them.
(Actually, in Missouri, the tension was so great during the Civil War that 1/3 of the population left or died as pro union forces and pro-rebel forces shot at anyone they disagreed with)
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
48% yankee. Which to me says that I'm neither. I'm a Westerner. We get neglected, because we have lower population (except California, which is no more Western than Florida is Southern). But our speech patterns tend to be more "standard" and "normal," unless you actually grew up on a ranch. Or in Cache Valley, Utah.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Tom, exactly! But if you choose paJAHMas (as I did), you get a SE US bias!
Umm, really?
-Bok
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
Interesting thread. I emailed the link to the faculty and they should have some fun with it. Rural Kansans, you know. Wonder what they will be?
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
100% Dixie. Now my parents won't try to kill me for not waving a Texas flag everywhere I go eh? Feeder roads is local to Houston, which I didn't realize. Has nobody ever known what I was talking about when I say that all these years? Guess thats what happens when you grow up in Houston.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: 53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
*giggles* I guess SoCal and Southern NJ do count, at least a little.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
I pronounce it "root" and I'm from CT. And there were a few ones where I say something different every time. The question they need to add: What do you say: Sprinkles Jimmies Shots Other
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
51% Dixie.
I'm so proud.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
Can you think of other colloquialisms that might be indicators of what area of the US you are from?
What about the thing you push your groceries around in? a. shopping cart b. buggy
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
86% (Dixie).
Pretty sweet. Me ma n pa would be happy to hear it, we're all from Louisiana. But I have zero accent.
I've heard really rural people in Texas call a pond a tank. What's up with that?
[ February 20, 2004, 01:27 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
quote:52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
I guess this sort of makes sense. My dad's from Phoenix, my mom's from Keene New Hampshire. Actually, I would assume I'd be more Yankee, since Arizona isn't all that southern.
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
I had a room mate from Connecticut who pronounced aunt to rhyme with haunt. He also said "to mah toe" for 'tomayto'. I thought he was hillarious and he thought I was related to Jed Clampet.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
61% Dixie. I find this interesting. I don't stick to dialect, because I find it fun to pronounce words differently. If I like the way someone else pronounces a word, I'll do it. I say "Schedule" as if it starts with "sh". I say "Y'all" because it feels right.
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
my score:
quote: 94% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
Some of you know why this is particularly fuuny to me.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Another Canadian with 53% Dixie. Though I did find that many of the questions I could have answered 1 of 2 ways with equal weight to the answers.
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
This test seems to start with 100% Dixie and any neutral answers don't seem to affect that score. Only scores that are specifically Yankee seem to reduce the percentage.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Aunts are people you are related to... Ants are things you step on.
That should resolve the question of how to pronounce 'aunt'.
Coc, I would add:
c. Grocery cart
And for the Coca-Cola question, "tonic" should be a choice.
-Bok
EDIT: I will add, however, that pronouncing it "to-mah-to" is just plain weird, and in my opinion is a sign of moral defect
[ February 20, 2004, 04:12 PM: Message edited by: Bokonon ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
55% Dixie. o_O
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
58% Dixie. I suppose you might think that my Virginian stepfather might have something to do with that, but a.) he didn't show up until I was in middle school and my pronunciation patterns were pretty well established, and b.) pretty much everyone in my part of Northern California speaks quite similarly to me.
quote:I'm pretty sure I used "crayfish", "crawfish", and "crawdads" in the same conversation at one point in my life, much to the confusion of the silly Californians who had no idea what any of them were.
Just out of curiosity, Eddie, how many of these silly Californians were from the north of Santa Barbara?
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
55% Dixie. Considering that, with the exception of the first two years of my life, I've lived almost entirely in the South, this is not too surprising.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
62% Dixie.
I was surprised to be told that "brew thru" and "roly poly" are southern.
BTW, in RI they say "bubbla" for a water fountain. I have a great comic book of Roe D'yelin pronunciation.
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I guess this makes sense. We Albertans are pretty much the Southerners of Canada.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Barely a Yankee!
Yeah, I went to college in KY, but come on. Maybe it's cuz I'm so backwoods. Crap.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
They didn't have the firefly vs. lightning bug thing on there.
Another one I've heard is a good predictor of southernness is how you pronounce greasy. For southerners, the s has a z sound. The noun grease is pronounced with an s sound, but the verb grease has the z, along with the adjective greasy. So if you grease your car with grease and get all greasy, it's z, s, z. Is it true that everyone not from the south uses the s sound in all of the above?
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
50 per cent Yankee.
Interesting. My mother is an Okie but came to California at age 9, and my father was born in Germany but raised from the age of 2 and a half in California. I grew up in California, and as a child I was around my father's family much more than I was my mother's. I would have thought I would have come out much more Yankee. Hmmmmm.
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
quote:Hmmm... a Canadian who is a Dixie. Me wonders about this test
*looks at my own score* 65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!...*also wonders about the test*
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
Cain't fool me. Bunch of Confederates in the Attic is what y'all are. Posted by Julian Delphiki (Member # 2015) on :
36% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.
Born and raised in Chicago, but have been going to school in FL for the past 4 years. Good to know it hasn't affected me too much.
Posted by butterfly (Member # 5898) on :
41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
66% Dixie. Australia, the other Southern State....
(Though the roly poly bug is a slater. It wasn't an available answer.)
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
imogen, y'all have those too? Cool!
Oh yeah, Australia is very southern! I actually think California is too! The people are so friendly there and nice. It really feels like home. I think maybe it has to do with having clement weather. People from those places with such harsh weather can't help but pick up a little of that attitude from the elements there. Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
So Yankees aren't friendly and nice? I like to think that I'm friendly and nice, and according to this quiz, I'm a Yankee.
Of course, this quiz isn't really comprehensive enough to tell you if you're from the South. Lots of the "Southern" answers apply to people out west, too. And apparently, they even apply to Canadians and Australians.
Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
70% Dixie
Look away! Look away!
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
quote:68% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
Okay.
ak, I use the S sound in all three instances you describe.
Posted by Sugar+Spice (Member # 5874) on :
72% (Dixie). Well, I am a born and bred Southerner and proud of it. Southern England, that is.
I think I've spent too much time in Florida.
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
47% Yankee, South Florida is transplanted northeast.
Posted by StigLarson (Member # 5579) on :
70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I am English and got this response. What does it mean?????
[ February 21, 2004, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: StigLarson ]
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
quote:55% Dixie. o_O
Wow Mack, that's worse than mine!
I got
quote: 50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
and I've lived in NH my entire life... Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Okay screechowl. I'm rural Kansan!
here's what I got:
quote: 54% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
Couple of them I actually had to make myself say outloud to think of how I say them! <HA>
Farmgirl
edit: oh! but I change my answers a couple of times when I thought about it -- now I see it says to NOT change -- maybe mine is messed up.
[ February 23, 2004, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
A number of faculty members, almost all native, small town Kansans, were in the 52-65% Dixie range.
I know I am the only one in the school who says Root instead of ROUT and Roof instead of RUFF.
Posted by Cor (Member # 4295) on :
I'm 63 percent Dixie, but Mischief Night lowered my Southerness.
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
35% Yankee. Wow, I've out-Yankeed all of Hatrack. Must have something to do with the whole Bubbler thing...
Edit: What kind of places have DRIVE-THRU liquor stores, anyway!?
[ February 23, 2004, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: Jeni ]
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
76% Dixie. egads!
Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :
Edit: What kind of places have DRIVE-THRU liquor stores, anyway!?
Texas, of course, for one.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I finally took it and got 91%.
Seems odd there are people on this board that scored as higher southerners than me!
I took the dialect survey, so I recognized most of the questions.
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I kinda thought more stuff would be northern, since that's where my family and a lot of people I know are from. But I'm a real southerner! Honest!
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