How do you score?

[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"?

[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.

[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!

[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"

[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.

[Trek420]

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

[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

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

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

[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?"

[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."