You Talk Funny

[Trevelyan]

I'm not exactly sure where this would belong. If not here, then I guess a moderator can move it. I'm just putting it here because culture can have an impact on the way you speak.

Well anyway, http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

Here are my results.

57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

[ThomasMore]

No, YOU talk funny.

43% Yankee. Barely into the yankee category. Musta been my forays into the Southeast and West over the years...

[Riverboat]

80%, podner. I guess the Feeder Road thing pretty much blew my cover as a Houstonian!

#17 didn't have an appropriate answer. I always called it "wrapping."

[MSGT]

81% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

[UhUhNoWay]

I didn't have an appropriate answer for #17 either...mostly because we never did stuff like that, only saw it in movies...but I know my friend in Louisiana called it 'rollin' I scored 51% barely Dixie. Probably because my daddy was a yankee, mom was Japanese, and we were raised in south eastern virginia (huge military area with people from all over)

[Red-voting Badger]

43% Yankee, it was hilarious to see the answers pinpoint my area twice (Milwaukee). And how could you guys come up with no answer for 17?! It's what junior-senior war in HS is all about. TP'ing from the end of spring break until Junior Prom night.

[Teenager]

89% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

That's my results. To answer the question, no, I didn't I have any Confederate ancestors. As most of ya'll know, I'm related to Abraham Lincoln, my dad is a Bostonian, and my Mom's side comes from Patrick Henry. But, I would say the test was pretty accurate about me being a southern talker.

[Teenager]

#17?? It's called "ROLLING someones yard!!" :)

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Well, perhaps Florida doesn't count as part of the "South," and we are considered a foreign land (we ought to be, with all the wigged-out things happening, occurring, and coming from my state over the past year or so). I got a reading of 60% percent Dixie, and it said barely -- sorry, y'all have read my words enough 'round here to know, I'm DEFINTELY a Bubba'n, LOL. BTW, Git-R-Done! http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Longhorn_Platinum]

Riverboat:
#17 didn't have an appropriate answer. I always called it "wrapping."

:smirky: Yeah, that's what we always called it. As for drive-thru liquor stores, I always called them "drive-thru liquor stores". Why wasn't that a choice? And the night before Halloween would be "Halloween Eve", but the mischief occurs on Halloween, not the night before.

:moo: Anyway, I'm only 74% Dixie. I guess I shouldn't be suprised, since I talk faster than most Texans. When I was a freshman at UT, a lot of my classmates were surprised to learn that I was from Port Arthur. They thought I was from New Ywahk.

[Tumblehome]

I am 50% Yankee!!! Oh no, I thought I was canadian! :p

[TheRealLobo]

I got a 68% Dixie(Definitive Southern)
Mrs Lobo got a 75% Dixie (STRONG Dixie)
and Little Lobo got a 79% Dixie (That is a pretty strong Southern score!)

My boy talks southern better'n I do.

[TheRealLobo]

Just a little off-topic.

Couple of years back, when my oldest nephew was living on the ranch with us, he was a senior in HS. He heard a rumour that some of the kids were going to come out to the ranch and TP the place.

He got ahold of the instigators and told them, "You REALLY don't want to do that, because my uncle lives there, and he is CRAZY."

I hardly ever get to hear or experience the things others go through. Sigh...

[tacitus]

45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. :whistle:

[TechnoPrincess]

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I am from Illinois, so this doesn't surprise me too much...

[Riverboat]

When I was a freshman at UT, a lot of my classmates were surprised to learn that I was from Port Arthur. They thought I was from New Ywahk.You too? Actually, a cleric once assumed I was from Baltimore, of all places. Maybe it's my Galvestonian roots. The B.O.I.'s have an outlook and breeding all their own.

[TheRealLobo]

I knew a couple of guys from S Louisiana, and those without a Cajun accent sound EXACTLY like a New Yorker.

[PrezLeefun]

43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

that was a shocker- always thought I was a DAMN YANKEE!

[MarlinsFan]

I got:
43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

It doesnt seem very conclusive, and since I was raised in Miami by immigrant parents, it's not like they were either 'yankee or dixie'.

[Melz]

66% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

And I am told that I have the accent to go with this score! Although Ohio really doesn't have accents, I don't know where people come up with that one.

[MSGT]

Just for the record.

9. What's that long sandwich with lots of cold cuts and toppings?

poboy

[Melz]

It's a sub sandwich. I wouldn't even be able to say "poboy" without laughing, it sounds so ghetto.

[Timberwolf]

34% Yankee...guess that fits me *grin*

[PrezLeefun]

It's a sub sandwich. I wouldn't even be able to say "poboy" without laughing, it sounds so ghetto.

i hadn't even heard of that before i took that quiz. Up here its a hero.