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11-29-2007, 11:27 PM
salsabike

9% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow? You can take the girl out of the northeast...
11-29-2007, 11:38 PM
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.
11-30-2007, 12:19 AM
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"?
11-30-2007, 01:49 AM
Mr. Bloom

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trek420

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
11-30-2007, 04:10 AM
bmccasland

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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

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.
11-30-2007, 04:35 AM
Tuckervill

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fredwina

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
11-30-2007, 04:52 AM
SouthernBelle

Indeed root does rhyme with hoot, etc.

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

Both lovely Southern towns.
11-30-2007, 05:06 AM
sandra

Quote:

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

Bah lux eeee (an hour and a half from me) ;)
11-30-2007, 05:06 AM
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
11-30-2007, 05:14 AM
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:
11-30-2007, 08:17 AM
OakLeaf

Quote:

Originally Posted by SouthernBelle

Indeed root does rhyme with hoot, etc.

And if I were a real Appalachian, so would "put."
11-30-2007, 08:19 AM
Fredwina

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuckervill

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 ;)
11-30-2007, 02:17 PM
Tuckervill

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

Karen
11-30-2007, 02:45 PM
Fredwina

Cape Girardeau. I grew up in Jackson, MO.
yes, I know SC is from Kennet.
11-30-2007, 03:07 PM
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.
11-30-2007, 05:45 PM
SouthernBelle

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fredwina

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.
11-30-2007, 06:28 PM
Zen

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmccasland

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

;)

98%
11-30-2007, 06:59 PM
kelownagirl

OK, that's it. I think everyone should have to record their voice and post it here. I wanna hear all these accents!
11-30-2007, 07:14 PM
Mr. Bloom

Quote:

Originally Posted by SouthernBelle

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...
11-30-2007, 07:16 PM
Mr. Bloom

Quote:

Originally Posted by kelownagirl

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
11-30-2007, 09:24 PM
kelownagirl

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Silver

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?
12-01-2007, 05:27 AM
SouthernBelle

Oh, you got Pulaski wrong!
12-01-2007, 07:07 AM
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
12-01-2007, 07:10 AM
wannaduacentury

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Silver

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
12-01-2007, 08:05 AM
Mr. Bloom

Quote:

Originally Posted by kelownagirl

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?
12-01-2007, 08:09 AM
silver

Mr. I wonder how Sandra says Pulaski?

I would have said Pu LAA ski
12-01-2007, 08:14 AM
kelownagirl

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Silver

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
12-01-2007, 08:46 AM
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.
12-01-2007, 10:26 AM
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."
12-01-2007, 10:57 AM
SouthernBelle

Silver, you're closer than Mr. on Pulaski.
12-01-2007, 01:14 PM
Mr. Bloom

Quote:

Originally Posted by OakLeaf

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

and this is funny, I've always spelled it ya'll
12-01-2007, 08:52 PM
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.
12-02-2007, 03:58 AM
Mr. Bloom

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hub

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:
12-02-2007, 06:10 AM
SouthernBelle

Actually I was referring to Pulaski Tn. ;)
12-02-2007, 11:26 AM
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.
12-04-2007, 07:27 PM
kabewyou

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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:

Cindyloo - wait a minute now - you know that a suburb of Atl is not the south......;)
12-05-2007, 03:41 AM
Scarlet

sooooooooo funnee

44% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
and I am from the UK
Scarlet x
12-05-2007, 06:16 AM
silver

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. 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!
12-05-2007, 08:05 AM
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:
12-05-2007, 08:39 AM
Hub

Quote:

Originally Posted by silver

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!

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