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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:00 pm
When I saw the subject line, I thought I was in the midst of a brawl with a poster here named Dixie! LOL For what it's worth, it says I'm 49% Yankee. But I'm actually 100% Yankee_in_CA!
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:27 pm
55% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. I spent the first 24 years of my life in San Francisco and the past 26 years of my life in Minnesota. The Dixie part must come from hanging around y'all.
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Hippyt
Member
09-10-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:31 pm
72% Dixie,that's a pretty strong Southern score! Oh,and I have seen drive through liquor stores,but we just called them drive throughs.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:33 pm
76% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! Ok I thought this would be an interesting test since I live in Mississippi by way of Atlanta but grew up mostly in Ohio. However I am not surprised by the Canadians are getting a strong Dixie score as I have seen a strong French Canadian influence in this part of the south since I moved here
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:34 pm
Down here we call them "Party Barns".
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:43 pm
Granny I haven't seen one here so didn't know what they were called. In Ohio they were called Pony Kegs. You could either drive through them or pull up to them at the curb.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 7:49 pm
That is mostly a slang thing we call them. I don't know that there are signs that say that but there are a lot of Barns around here and lots of moonshine.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 8:37 pm
I say ya'all, too. It didn't ask me how I pronounce wash. I would have gotten a different score..LOL
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Lobster
Member
04-13-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 8:48 pm
53% Dixie. I have lived in Boston my whole life. Maybe I was a southern belle in a former life. LOL
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 8:58 pm
Twiggy that is to funny to me. For years I worshed my face, clothes, car whatever. I had to LEARN when I moved south that I washed everything. I also had to learn when I didn't understand what was being said to say "excuse me?" not "please?" Oh this thread has been a great trip down memory lane for a gal that's dad also calles a sink a zink.
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:20 pm
67% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! I've lived in SE Washington all my life. Very interesting.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:29 pm
RG and the 2002 gang! Have you taken this quiz yet? I am ROTFLMAO at the route-root question! 63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! This doesn't surprise me because I've lived in the south a little more than the north, and it was funny to see the answers as 'from the Great Lakes region' or 'exclusively Texas'! LOL
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:58 pm
I'm 69% Dixie. I got a laugh at the What's that road along the interstate highway? I grew up in Houston and I've always called it the feeder and come to find out it's "Local use in Houston and eastern Great Lakes" I was a little surprised at caramel. I thought car-ml was the southern pronunciation. I was very surprised by cot and caught. Do a lot of people really pronounce those the same?
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 10:05 pm
Ok Azriel, now you've got my curosity going. Just how the devil do you say cot and caught, if not the same? LOL
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 10:58 pm
Jmm, cot rhymes with rot; caught has the same vowel sound as sauce (i.e., it has a dipthong)
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 11:13 pm
58% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 11:24 pm
73% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! No suprises here...I am a typical Southern Belle!
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Lancecrossfire
Moderator
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 11:27 pm
48% yankee
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 11:43 pm
70% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 11:46 pm
Jmm, what Tishala said. Cot ends up sounding kind of like caht and caught ends up sounding kind of like cawt 
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 2:43 am
75% Dixie
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 3:44 am
48% Yankee....I'm sure it would have been higher, but I DO tend to address groups of people as y'all. That would be the small town central Illinois twang creeping in. I about died when I saw you'ns/yins/yinz (however you spell it). It is a Western Pennsylvanian dialect and I'm always trying to break my students from using it when they teach. They also "red" their house here (this means to clean...maybe comes from rid???).
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 7:13 am
you know, I guess if you're miswestern, you aren't a Yankee. When I took it the first time, I was 44% Yankee. I say water fountain. But everyone around here calls it a bubbler which I cringe at. So I retook the test and pretended that I say bubbler. It pops up that this is a southern Wisc. and somewhere else thing and now I was only 41% Yankee. So does that make southern Wisconsin a "Dixie" area? I would have never guessed!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 7:20 am
Feeder cracked me up too, Az! I say cot/caught differently also. I did take some exception, they are doodle bugs and it's a beer barn! ;)
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Resortgirl
Member
09-23-2000
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 8:10 am
Hi Gracie!~~ I'm 35% yankee... a definitive yankee. I don't know why my score is so low other then I've been hangin' out with all you southeners so much!! LOL!!
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