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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 02:39 pm |
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Take the test and find out:
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html
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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 07:03 pm |
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"79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!"
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 07:43 pm |
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38% Yankee
Northern boy.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 10:20 pm |
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Well, y'all knew this is what you'd get out of me!
87% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
And, no I don't have any Confederate ancestors. My parents are transplants from the midwest.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 10:50 pm |
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Yes, I am the third product of a NY'er and a Bostonian...and the east coast of Florida where I *grew up* is not exactly the *south* - by a long stretch. But we do get influenced, and I've had my "y'all" grinned at as often as my usage of Aunt as in want, a total conflict that even my own family doesn't understand, including my now last living 94 year old Aunt! Heck if I know.
The thought of me and the rebel flag co-joined is not one I recognize...I went to a girls' boarding school in the TRUE deep south of Georgia for a year that lasted 5 in my teens and I thought I was on another planet. I was. But I learned a lot...biggest lesson, stay away from seriously southern girls, they're insane and dangerous!
But it was a fun test! And now I'll whistle Dixie and tap dance stage left...
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Posted: Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 02:08 am |
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91% Dixie--but that's no surprise to anyone who knows me! Willito (Fischbach) liked to tell people that English is my second language.
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Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 02:20 am |
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| I came out 50% (slightly Yankee). Not surprising, since I grew up in DC and am the product of a Texas father and Minnesota mother! The Texas relatives always thought I sounded like a northerner and the Minnesota relatives thought I had a southern sound.
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Doug
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 04:39 pm |
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ron wrote: 91% Dixie--but that's no surprise to anyone who knows me! Willito (Fischbach) liked to tell people that English is my second language.
Pat Megnin
I'd say 91% is a bit low. 
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 02:04 am |
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I agree, Doug! Guess a few years on Culebra away from my Alabama home is responsible for some of that. Now I'm living in Florida, which is farther south but still not the "true" south.
My great great grandfather on my mother's side was a Confederate soldier, so I think that should make up the other 9%!
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 11:13 am |
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Who knows what makes us tick? My mom was a DAR, and as every Floridian knows (except the ones who live in Belle Glade), Florida ain't the south!
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 02:20 pm |
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My dad's family on his dad's side were all rebs from Georgia, planters outside Macon. Alexander Stephens, VP of the CSA, was an ancestor. On his mom's side they were merchants and brewers from Mobile and New Orleans. St. Louis is one of those places where southerners think we're yankees and northerners think we're the south.
70% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 11:37 pm |
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Hey Doug,
You’re right about Missourians being considered southerners by yankees and northerners by southerners. When I lived in Flint, Michigan, in the late 60’s, there was a community called “Little Missouri,” so named because there were so many Missouri natives living there who had come up to work for General Motors. I can’t remember how many times, when people heard my accent, they’d say, “Are you from Missouri?” My answer? “No, I’m from the South.” Here’s your sign!
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 02:59 am |
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Well for me, born and raised in Germany for
5 years wiped out baby english. So I went
from a very gutteral language to an American
English guttural accent, Ohioan. If you listen
to an Ohioan speak it sounds like barking.
For awhile Barbara and I lived in Kentucky, still
suffering schizophrenia from the civil war, it
can't figure out what side it was on and what
is a true Kentuckian dialect .
But in 1967-68 quite a bit of Louisville
sounded almost like Ohioan to us until
they said goodbye, as they said "Come back
and see us (normally) then added Y'all (really
hit hard) We swore we would "Never" but after
5-6months we were saying "Y'all" it started
to sound warmer and friendlier.
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 12:18 pm |
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Jim, und was war Ihre Kerbe?
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 05:08 pm |
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I googled the german, the last I remember was kaugumme
(chewing gum) and undere kinder (used in anxiety when
I wanted something another kid had)
My score a noble 43 yankee. I certainly remember
pop or more specifically red pop or cherry pop
my favorite till i was a young teen, then swayed
by Royal Castle Birch Beer. Just across the street
from the boys school, I was hooked.
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