← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Blond Knight
Thread ID: 19718 | Posts: 25 | Started: 2005-08-18
2005-08-18 20:44 | User Profile
FWIW, these kind of "tests" are probably meaningless, but they are sometimes amusing.
[url]http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html[/url]
2005-08-18 21:54 | User Profile
61% Dixie. My mother's from Oklahoma, and I grew up speaking with that accent, but it's mostly gone now. I still pronounce you as yeew.
2005-08-19 01:39 | User Profile
Blond Knight,
I got 52% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line. My family came from the Ozarks, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
2005-08-19 01:48 | User Profile
My results: "48% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category."
Too bad, I wanted to be a Rebel.
2005-08-19 02:12 | User Profile
46% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.
Where I come from the night before Halloween is called "beggar's night", a choice not provided in this test. Strange.
2005-08-19 02:23 | User Profile
Holy smokes... lifelong Yankee and I'm 65% Dixie?? Maybe Hoosiers fought for the wrong side in the Civil War.
2005-08-19 02:23 | User Profile
Bardamu,
Yes the test is far from perfect.
I did not know what this one was talking about. [QUOTE]20. What's that bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it?
* Doodlebug
* Pillbug
* Roly-Poly
* Potato bug
* Sow bug[/QUOTE]
2005-08-19 02:26 | User Profile
Faust,
It's apparent you aren't a gardener. :)
2005-08-19 03:39 | User Profile
I live in Omaha now. The accent of the natives is harsh and dark, but it is still recognizably the Midwestern twang I grew up with.
2005-08-19 03:56 | User Profile
36% Definitely a Yankee. Not bad for born in Texas, raised in Wyomin', educated in California. My great-great grampaw, Andersonville survivor, must be beamin'.
2005-08-19 04:27 | User Profile
35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
Born and raised in Ohio.
2005-08-19 04:48 | User Profile
21% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
I'm from Wisconsin.
It called me right on a number of usages that are common to the Great Lakes.
2005-08-19 04:57 | User Profile
Go figure; I ended up with
55% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line
and I say 'ant', 'caw-fee', 'aw-ringe'....the night before Halloween 'nothing', and those bugs that curl up into a ball 'ladybugs' (though I selected 'potato bugs' since 'ladybugs' wasn't an option).
2005-08-19 05:10 | User Profile
Well I'll be! 60 - "right on the border".
I figured it would be lower - I knew a lot of places I wasn't giving the "correct" answer. And they didn't even ask the real identifiers, like oil "(rhymes with "awl" ) :wink:
Ask Spiderman his score :lol:
2005-08-19 05:35 | User Profile
[QUOTE]il ragno [I]Go figure; I ended up with
[B]55% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line[/B][/I][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Okiereddust
[I]Ask Spiderman his score [/I] [/QUOTE]
Oh yeah - you're from Oklahoma, all right.
2005-08-19 05:42 | User Profile
He was jes' typin his answer while you posted yours.
2005-08-19 07:14 | User Profile
"43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category."
I was surprised how often the Great Lakes region was cited in my speech mannerisms; I haven't travelled in that area since '72 (unless you count passing through southern Illinois on the way to Kentucky from St. Louis, back in '76) and I was born in '70), plus my mother was born & raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, my father was born in Newark, New Jersey & raised in Ulster, Pennsylvania, and I was born in Selma, Alabama & raised in Los Gatos, California. However, I did read that the Pacific Northwest was largely settled by people from the Great Lakes, and Los Gatos is on the very southern fringe of what could reasonably be defined as the Pacific Northwest, so perhaps that's where I picked it up....
This October, I'm going to tell my son about the night before Halloween being called Cabbage Night....And don't forget; next month is International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day!
"Arr, matey! 'Tis good of ye to pay homage to yer Bucanneer brethren."
2005-08-19 07:19 | User Profile
Avast ye scuppers, ye scurvy sea-dog, ere ye'll swing from me yardarm! And somebody fetch me some IAMS Parrot Chow from belowdecks.
2005-08-19 07:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=il ragno]and I say 'ant', 'caw-fee', 'aw-ringe'....the night before Halloween 'nothing', and those bugs that curl up into a ball 'ladybugs' (though I selected 'potato bugs' since 'ladybugs' wasn't an option).[/QUOTE]
Jumpin' Jehosophat, man! Ladybugs are those little red beetles, usually with some black spots on the outside of their wingcase/shell (and which adore dining on aphids, so don't kill them) while sow bugs/potato bugs/rolie-polies/50 other assorted names are those dark blue/gray-colored, primitive little beasties with many legs (thus they are not insects, as all insects have six legs; pulling one off doesn't change their status, however) and which roll up into a ball so tightly you could play games of marbles with a group of them. They are an anicent species that I believe is related most closely to centipedes and millipedes.
2005-08-19 07:59 | User Profile
Not that there was any doubt.
"86% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?"
2005-08-19 12:58 | User Profile
My result: 71% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!
2005-08-19 13:41 | User Profile
40% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.
I recognized a lot of answers that I don't use as vocabulary common to my area, I was raised not to speak in the local dialect. If I picked up a word or phrase or pronounciation peculiar to the region I was promptly corrected. That my family going back many years had lived in the same general area for a long time and didn't use it themselves seems to indicate that must have been that way for generations.
2005-08-19 14:26 | User Profile
87% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?
Sounds about right to me.
2005-08-19 14:46 | User Profile
83% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?
2005-08-19 14:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]"..And don't forget; next month is International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day!
"Arr, matey! 'Tis good of ye to pay homage to yer Bucanneer brethren."[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.talklikeapirate.com/[/url]