How do you score?

[SouthernBelle]

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

I scored 83% Dixie.

[bmccasland]

92% Dixie. After living here 5 years my vernicular has changed. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. ;)

[HappyAnika]

40%. It thinks I am a yankee. I am really a mountain girl.

To me, (please take this with a grain of salt ;) ), this is an example of the stereotypical Easterner's perspective that there are 4 regions in the US. The North, the South, the Midwest (which really has nothing to do with the middle, or the west if you look at a map), and California. Hmm, there's a lot of ignored land in this scenario, and I am from that region. I realize the quiz is just for fun, but to call me a yankee is quite ridiculous! :rolleyes:

[froglegs]

25% Dixie. Apparently I'm a dandy Yankee Doodle.

[mimitabby]

woohoo!!
Interestingly, I can see that I used to pronounce some stuff differently.

15% Dixie. Wow! You are a Duke of Yankeedom!

[indysteel]

71% Dixie. Born, bred and educated in Indiana. For a few of them, I chose the response that is specific to Indiana. Good to know that I fit in here.

[Pax]

35% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

Born in Massachusetts but raised all over the world...settled in Illinois. I guess it's fairly accurate.

[Kimmyt]

40% dixie, I'm a Yankee!

They got me on the hoagie bit...

[Blueberry]

"82% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money?"

Hmmm...I've lived in the South all of my life, but most people guess that I'm from the mid west to hear me speak. Odd...

[Fredwina]

I was 50% and most think I'm from Arkansas. But then I've lived here , there and everywhere

[maillotpois]

"82% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money?"


LOL!!!

Mine: "34% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."

[GLC1968]

That test is whacked. :eek:

I'm 44% Dixie, but yet only 1 of my responses was labeled as 'southern'. And that's just association by marriage (I married a Southerner, so a crawfish is a crawfish)! :p

I'm about 1% Dixie, in reality.

What I did find funny is that the largest % of my answeres were Michigan/Great Lakes in origin. I only lived there for 3 years!

[Xrayted]

74% dixie here. :D

[HillSlugger]

39% dixie. Grew up on Long Island but have worked my way down the Atlantic coast to Maryland.

[mountainchick]

63% Dixie.Well under the Mason-Dixon Line

We're all from Kentucky, I guess that's accurate!

[anakiwa]

21% Dixie. You are a dandy Yankee Doodle.

I didn't think I was any- but then I did spend 7 months in Georgia the year after I graduated from college.

[kelownagirl]

33% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

Hmmm, I'm Canadian. I have no accent. :D :D

[PscyclePath]

99% Dixie on both the basic and advanced tests.

Gen'l Lee ain't my granddaddy, but Vice President Stephens is my first cousin, five times removed.

Tom

[VeloVT]

Hee hee.

20% Dixie. Wow, you are a duke of yankeedom!

Umm, I think I actually am. The 20% is probably accounted for by the fact that my mom is from Alabama. Dad is from super waspy area of Connecticut and those are the relatives I actually know (Mom LEFT the south).

However, I take exception to the statement that "New York and New Jersey are the heart of Yankeedom" (possible response for question #7). Shows that this test was written by a southerner. Umm, those are both Mid-atlantic states and Yankees hail from New England. What about "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"? If I had to pinpoint the heart of Yankeedom it would probably be somewhere in Massachusetts, Boston perhaps.

You can tell an authentic yankee by his or her accent (maybe proving that I'm not one, 'cause I have lots of "common all over the US" answers) and variants of that beautiful New England accent are not to be found in New York or New Jersey, but are easy to find in Maine or New Hampshire, or Vermont, or even Mass.

[sandra]

OMG! My results were: 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?! :D

[silver]

Tom, dangit! you beat me, I was awl proud a my 96%. And no, I ain't related to General Lee neither. (oh sandra posted at the same time! yep she beat me too, but she still lives there)

I've lived just 4 miles north of the extended Mason-Dixon line for about 7 years now.

born in Alabama, family is from South Alabama, West Florida and East Georgia. After graduating from The University of Alabama we moved to Tennesse.

There's an advanced test? 100% on that one

[VeloVT]

I've been to one or two Alabama-Auburn games :D (Mom graduated from University of Alabama)...

[nomummytummy]

11% Dixie. Wow! You are a Duke of Yankeedom!

and I'm from the other side of the world. What's Yankeedom?????:D

I was hooked by the title - I thought it may be your favourite pick-up lines :)

[silver]

You can tell an authentic yankee by his or her accent (maybe proving that I'm not one, 'cause I have lots of "common all over the US" answers) and variants of that beautiful New England accent are not to be found in New York or New Jersey, but are easy to find in Maine or New Hampshire, or Vermont, or even Mass.[/QUOTE]


I could hardly understand the people in Maine. I thought they had a British accent. But it was a lovely accent. We were a crew at our cabin in Maine with our mixture of Boston and Southern accents. :eek:

[Hub]

Deep, deep South; you should come up for air.

100% Dixie.
Is General Lee your grandfather?!- close- ditto what Pscyclepath said about VP Stephens . . .

What I really want to know is what did he get wrong to not get a 100?

Gee, that's the first time in 44 years that I outscored my brother on a test! :D

[silver]

I've been to one or two Alabama-Auburn games :D (Mom graduated from University of Alabama)...

At Legion Field in B'ham? The day that Bear Bryant passed away was probably a bigger deal that Kennedy. Mr. was at Bama then.

Well, then! that qualifies you for honorary status! Was she in a sorority?

[Hub]

Yankees- abroad it means folks from the United States- here in the states it means the folks that wore dark blue in what we Mississippians like to call the Recent Unpleasantness- more commonly refered to as the Civil War (1861-65).
Pscyclepath can tell you a lot more about it- he's the family historian & a Civil War re-enactor.

See also- Yamn Dankee

[kelownagirl]

So I just took the advanced test and got

18% Dixie. Wow! You are a Duke of Yankeedom!

And they didn't have my pronunciation for oil.

# AW-wee-yul
# OH-wuhl
# erl
# all or awl

Really?

How about "OYL"?

[Eden]

Same here Mimi - that's what we get for being North Easterners

[sandra]

I can't believe all y'all are scoring so low! :D

[Chile Pepper]

Well, I scored 60% on the first test--barely in Dixie

But I only scored 14% on the advanced test.

[VeloVT]

Hmmmm....

20% on the "original test"
21% on the "advanced test"

oddly consistent.

[OakLeaf]

52%, "barely in Dixie." Which is about right for an Appalachian transplant. (Which rhymes with apple-catchin', btw.) But 79% on the advanced test!

I have to object to the question about "route," though.

Rhymes with "root" (which rhymes with "put"), no.

Rhymes with "rout" (which rhymes with "doubt"), no.

Almost rhymes with "rut" (which rhymes with "butt"), no.

"Route" rhymes with "coot." Of course. ;)

[firenze11]

I loved this!

The first one I got 83% Dixie - Do you still use Confederate money? And on the advanced one I got 49% Barely in Yankeedom. It makes sense though, I used to live in Maryland but I'm now in Canada so my accent is all kinds of mixed up.

I always wanted a Southern accent though and was told I had one when I moved here, so I'm gonna take the 83% and run with it ;) :D

I do say "eh" for kicks and giggles though now.

[Mr. Bloom]

61% Dixie.Well under the Mason-Dixon Line.

Not bad for a "buoy from Burminham Alabamy..." must have been my sophisticated southern breeding and all those years of private school...ya'll.:rolleyes:

Yes, I was at 'Bama when "BARe Bryant" died...I was actually in Accounting 201 taught by Gorman Jones (now that's an Alabama name!)

[snapdragen]

What I did find funny is that the largest % of my answeres were Michigan/Great Lakes in origin. I only lived there for 3 years!

Me too - and I've never lived anywhere but California.

36% Dixie

[sbctwin]

41% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. Dixie? I've grew up in California, then moved to Washington state for a few years, onto Colorado for another couple, up to Wyoming for 9 years and have been in Utah for 17...Dixie?

[kelownagirl]

I have to object to the question about "route," though.

Rhymes with "root" (which rhymes with "put"), no.


Uh no, I don't think so. :rolleyes:


"root" and "route" are pronounced the same and neither rhymes with "put"!

They both rhyme with "hoot" and "toot" and "shoot" although sometimes, I say "route" rhyming with "shout".

[boy in a kilt]

73%, my neck is a little Rosy.

Full disclosure. My dad was born and grew up in Northern Louisiana. I was born in Mississippi but I've only been back to Biloxi a few times.

[Trek420]

And the only time I've been to the South was a week in Key West :cool:

[salsabike]

9% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow? You can take the girl out of the northeast...

[teigyr]

26%. Of course my mom's from Calif then lived in Bahrain (went to British boarding school in India) and then went to high school/college in Connecticut and Vermont. My dad's from Massachusetts. I was born in SoCal and lived my whole life there except for the past 5 or so years.

I feel conflicted.

[Bron]

33% Dixie. What's all that about? I'm Welsh!

Actually, I had to leave some of them blank, I would never address a group of people with any varient of "you all", surely its "ladies and gentlemen"?

[Mr. Bloom]

And the only time I've been to the South was a week in Key West :cool:

Trek: You haven't lived until you've visited Savannah Georgia or Charleston SC! It's a time warp:cool:

They're a step just above Reform Alabama and Red Boiling Springs Tennessee!;)

Or, you could go visit the Boll Weevil monument in Enterprise Alabama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Weevil_Monument)

[bmccasland]

Yankees- abroad it means folks from the United States- here in the states it means the folks that wore dark blue in what we Mississippians like to call the Recent Unpleasantness- more commonly refered to as the Civil War (1861-65).
Pscyclepath can tell you a lot more about it- he's the family historian & a Civil War re-enactor.

See also- Yamn Dankee

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.

American history was truly amazing when I moved from Louisiana to Michigan. Having an Ozark hillbilly for a Dad and my mom is from the northern Louisiana - but I grew up in the Air Force, I find my choice of words changing. How I acually pronounce things is a mix too. On the advanced test I scored 48% Dixie.

[Tuckervill]

I was 50% and most think I'm from Arkansas. But then I've lived here , there and everywhere

Arkansas? Why do they say Arkansas?

No one would ever guess I'm from Arkansas (I spent my formative years in Chicago burbs, though after 35 years here I do have an accent.) In my travels, no one, especially in the northeast, knows anyone from Arkansas and usually can't tell where it is on a map. But they all know at least one Arkansas hillbilly joke!

I took my dad on a cross-country trip this year--every time we stopped if there was a Wal-Mart, he had to go in it. Without fail, he'd ask the door greeter or the checker--"Have you ever heard of Bentonville, AR?" (Home town of Wal-Mart). Not ONE person had ever heard of it. If you pick up almost any item in Wal-Mart, it has Bentonville, AR on it. (We went west on this trip, not east.) This is why I'm shocked that people pick Arkansas of all places, Fredwina.

I scored 87% Dixie, by the way.

Karen

[SouthernBelle]

Indeed root does rhyme with hoot, etc.

A true test: How do you pronounce "Biloxi" or "Pulaski"?

Both lovely Southern towns.

[sandra]

A true test: How do you pronounce "Biloxi" or "Pulaski"?

Bah lux eeee (an hour and a half from me) ;)

[GLC1968]

I pronounce "Biloxi" just like it's spelled...Bill - Ox - EE.... This, of couse, sends my husband into a total fit of hysteria, name-calling and finger pointing. :rolleyes:

He was born there...grew up just down the road in Gulfport. You should hear the way he pronounces Worcester, though! :p

He spent 7 years in the Air Force trying to lose his accent. He was mostly sucessful, so now when he really turns it on...it freaks me out! I, of course grew up in the Boston area and yes...a true yankee hails from Boston or New England and does NOT cheer for the Yankees.

By the way, I was 12% Dixie on the advanced test...PHEW! :D

[Cindyloo]

I scored 79% dixie on the 1st test and 44% dixie on the advanced test! I have lived in the South my whole life! :confused:

[OakLeaf]

Indeed root does rhyme with hoot, etc.

And if I were a real Appalachian, so would "put."

[Fredwina]

Arkansas? Why do they say Arkansas?

No one would ever guess I'm from Arkansas (I spent my formative years in Chicago burbs, though after 35 years here I do have an accent.) In my travels, no one, especially in the northeast, knows anyone from Arkansas and usually can't tell where it is on a map. But they all know at least one Arkansas hillbilly joke!

I took my dad on a cross-country trip this year--every time we stopped if there was a Wal-Mart, he had to go in it. Without fail, he'd ask the door greeter or the checker--"Have you ever heard of Bentonville, AR?" (Home town of Wal-Mart). Not ONE person had ever heard of it. If you pick up almost any item in Wal-Mart, it has Bentonville, AR on it. (We went west on this trip, not east.) This is why I'm shocked that people pick Arkansas of all places, Fredwina.

I scored 87% Dixie, by the way.

Karen
Actually, it does make sense.
I grew up I Southeast Missouri(Actually, I'm wearing a SEMO Alumni sweatshirt right now) and both Parents are from West Tennesse(dad from Memphis, and Mom across the State line from Corinth, MS)
The only thing I can think it there is at least two different "Southern" accents, Coastal(Virginia and the Carolinas) and Inland. Since Bill Clinton does have the Inland accent(at least I hear my speech patterns in his), most folks probably think Arkansas.
PS. I also get mistaken for a Texan, too. Let's not go there ;)

[Tuckervill]

Cape Girardeau or Kennett? You know Sheryl Crow's from Kennett, right? :)

Karen

[Fredwina]

Cape Girardeau. I grew up in Jackson, MO.
yes, I know SC is from Kennet.

[sgtiger]

35% and 16% on the advanced. Heehee! I'm surprised there wasn't a choice for the back forty for the over there or yonder question.


ETA: Immigrated form S.Korea at 2 1/2, grew up on the West Coast - Northern Cali, Oregon.

[SouthernBelle]

The only thing I can think it there is at least two different "Southern" accents, Coastal(Virginia and the Carolinas) and Inland. Since Bill Clinton does have the Inland accent(at least I hear my speech patterns in his), most folks probably think Arkansas.
PS. I also get mistaken for a Texan, too. Let's not go there ;)

I can tell differences in the 3 grand divisions of Tennessee.

[Zen]

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.


;)

98%

[kelownagirl]

OK, that's it. I think everyone should have to record their voice and post it here. I wanna hear all these accents!

[Mr. Bloom]

Indeed root does rhyme with hoot, etc.

A true test: How do you pronounce "Biloxi" or "Pulaski"?

Both lovely Southern towns.

Sandra got Bah lux eee correct (naturally;) )

The other is Pew las ski

Lafayette = La fAAy ette

New Orleans = Nwalenes

Louisville = lewelville

But then, Indianapolis is In-danapolis to everyone in Indiana...(except me...a syllable is a terrible thing to waste). I regularly drive through Loogootee, In - pronounced Lowgoatee...

[Mr. Bloom]

OK, that's it. I think everyone should have to record their voice and post it here. I wanna hear all these accents!

The real test would be to have all of us record:


The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains

[kelownagirl]

Sandra got Bah lux eee correct (naturally;) )

The other is Pew las ski

Lafayette = La fAAy ette

New Orleans = Nwalenes

Louisville = lewelville

But then, Indianapolis is In-danapolis to everyone in Indiana...(except me...a syllable is a terrible thing to waste). I regularly drive through Loogootee, In - pronounced Lowgoatee...


So how do you pronounce Kelowna?

Or Toronto?

or Calgary?

[SouthernBelle]

Oh, you got Pulaski wrong!

[wannaduacentury]

First test--86% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money?

2nd- 91% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Yep, I'm from the south. I use yonder and Y'all, but speak normal english otherwise. I took another test similiar and it told me I was from the midwest. I guess some of my pronunciations for that would be true. dh has a neutral accent- and he's from south ga originally. Some things never go away since Ga is a melting pot now.

Jenn

[wannaduacentury]

61% Dixie.Well under the Mason-Dixon Line.

Not bad for a "buoy from Burminham Alabamy..." must have been my sophisticated southern breeding and all those years of private school...ya'll.:rolleyes:

Yes, I was at 'Bama when "BARe Bryant" died...I was actually in Accounting 201 taught by Gorman Jones (now that's an Alabama name!)

I remember Bear Bryant- he was a legend :) Jenn

[Mr. Bloom]

So how do you pronounce Kelowna?

Or Toronto?

or Calgary?

Hmmm...saying is one thing - spelling phonetically is another.

Kelowna = Ka loh nuh

Toronto = Ta ron toe

Calgary = Cal ga ree

Do I pass the worldly red neck test?

[silver]

Mr. I wonder how Sandra says Pulaski?

I would have said Pu LAA ski

[kelownagirl]

Hmmm...saying is one thing - spelling phonetically is another.

Kelowna = Ka loh nuh

Toronto = Ta ron toe

Calgary = Cal ga ree

Do I pass the worldly red neck test?

Not bad Mr. Silver. :D

Kelowna is spot on, assuming you put the emphasis on the middle syllable.

Ka LOH nuh

Ta RON no - some of us pronounce the last T but many are lazy and don't (me)

CAL gree or Cal gary Again, we're often lazy and it sounds more like the first one

[Velobambina]

25% Dixie. Western Penna native (we have our own dialect--Pittsburghese

http://www.pittsburghese.com/

I might have to live in the DC metro area to earn a living, but I'll always be a Pittsburgh girl.

[OakLeaf]

Another thing that didn't look quite right on the test - my next door neighbor is a rural Mississippi gal, so I know this one.

One person is "y'all." A group of persons is "all y'all."

[SouthernBelle]

Silver, you're closer than Mr. on Pulaski.

[Mr. Bloom]

One person is "y'all." A group of persons is "all y'all."

and this is funny, I've always spelled it ya'll

[Hub]

[QUOTE=sgtiger;267070]35% and 16% on the advanced. Heehee! I'm surprised there wasn't a choice for the back forty for the over there or yonder question.


Yonder was on the advanced test-
Silver got Pulaski right- at least is you're referring to Pulaski County, AR (That's Little Rock)

And Mr. Silver- . . . I have always spelled it y'all- as a contraction of you all . . . although I noticed that many other citizens of the planet spell it ya'll.

[Mr. Bloom]

And Mr. Silver- . . . I have always spelled it y'all- as a contraction of you all . . . although I noticed that many other citizens of the planet spell it ya'll.

Yep, when Microsoft spelling check did it y'all, I knew I had to be correct. No one from Seattle is going to tell me how to spell ya'll:cool:

[SouthernBelle]

Actually I was referring to Pulaski Tn. ;)

[bike4ever]

78% Dixie. I grew up in VA - lived in Pittsburgh - now in St. Louis. My kids laugh at the way I say some words.

[kabewyou]

I scored 79% dixie on the 1st test and 44% dixie on the advanced test! I have lived in the South my whole life! :confused:

Cindyloo - wait a minute now - you know that a suburb of Atl is not the south......;)

[Scarlet]

44% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
and I am from the UK
Scarlet x

[silver]

and this is funny, I've always spelled it ya'll


humph! well he was born in Boston. Poser Southerner he is!

it's y'all!

[jobob]

Born, raised, and edjacated in Massachusetts, so I selected the terms that I used as a kid (bubbler, grinder).


"1% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow?"


:cool:

[Hub]

humph! well he was born in Boston. Poser Southerner he is!

it's y'all!

Thanks for the support Silver! I know he's a good man and all, but he must own up to his roots!

[silver]

Actually I was referring to Pulaski Tn. ;)

So, what's proper pronounciation (did I spell that correctly?????)

Obviously we're not real Tennesseeans (geez this post is spelling chore). As has been revealed, Mr. was born in Boston of a Boston born mother and Atlantan born father then moved to Barbados and learned to speak from a British accented nanny.

I'm crimson blooded Alabama born and bred.

We lived in Nashville for 7 years and in Memphis for 7 years.

[silver]

Thanks for the support Silver! I know he's a good man and all, but he must own up to his roots!

GRITS stick together!

;)

[SouthernBelle]

I have a GRITS hat.

Pull- ask-ee.

That's how peple who live there say it. Newscasters are a different story.

[Mr. Bloom]

For those non-Boston born, Barbados raised, poser southerners, GRITS is:


Girls
Raised
In
The
South

Hmmm, I'm going to have to teach Silver how to spell, don't ya'll agree?

[boy in a kilt]

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.

American history was truly amazing when I moved from Louisiana to Michigan. Having an Ozark hillbilly for a Dad and my mom is from the northern Louisiana - but I grew up in the Air Force, I find my choice of words changing. How I acually pronounce things is a mix too. On the advanced test I scored 48% Dixie.

Ok, that's a little weird.

My dad's side: All from Haynesville or parts thereabout. 'shiners about two generations back. My dad was in the AF for 8 years. In fact, I was born at Kessler.

Mom's side: Born in Jackson, grew up in Grass Lake. We bounced back and forth between Haynesville and Michigan when I was growing up. Last lived in Kalamazoo.

[Mr. Bloom]

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.

American history was truly amazing when I moved from Louisiana to Michigan. Having an Ozark hillbilly for a Dad and my mom is from the northern Louisiana - but I grew up in the Air Force, I find my choice of words changing. How I acually pronounce things is a mix too. On the advanced test I scored 48% Dixie.

Yep, it was interesting in our family too....

SilverDaughter had Tennessee history when we lived there and the war was about "States Rights".

SilverSon had Indiana history when we moved here and the war was about "Slavery"

Personally, I believe the war was about the "Rights of States to choose Slavery":cool:

[dex]

Hrm...100% Dixie on the basic test, but only 60% on the advanced.

I have little to no southern accent, and most people who meet me are surprised to find out that I spent something like 15 or 16 years growing up/living in Tennessee. (I wasn't born there, but we moved there when I was 8 or 9...oh, and my father was born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas so accented English was something I grew up hearing at home. My mom is Chinese, so that's an entirely different kind of accented English.)

I can turn on an accent when I want/need to, and I easily drift into one when having a conversation with someone who has an accent, but it's not normally detectable (unless I've been drinking Jack Daniels). But despite the lack of accent, a lot of southern colloquialisms are deeply embedded in my vocabulary--obviously, since I didn't even realize that some of them were considered predominantly "southern".

Oh, and I thought it was The War Between the States. Heh.

[Fredwina]

Mu mom was in the DOC before it morphed into the a KKK auxiallry - I was thaught that it was "the Late unplesantess". Of course my Dad's ancestors fought mainly for the Union, we think. it's what i get for growing up in Border state:)

[OakLeaf]

It's not normally detectable (unless I've been drinking Jack Daniels)

There are a LOT of sides to me that aren't detectable unless I've been drinking JD :D