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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 2843 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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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.
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