How Southern Are You?

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stolen from a Kings of Leon board and presented for your entertainment and edification

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

94%.
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Post by Who Shot Sam? »

My score: 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Guess I'm a mix of West Coast and Northeast. My wife is from Florida and the first time I heard her say, "I'm fixin' to..." I couldn't stop laughing. A couple of others that she uses:

-"Spicket" instead of spigot
-"Kew-pons" instead of coupons
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40% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Not bad for a Canadian
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Post by mood swung »

better than "KOOPuns"!! my son and I watched They Call Me Tater Salad (which he was way too young to see, but, who knew?) and just nearly peed all over ourselves over the KOOPuns.

Fixin' to is inspired English. Gets the procrastinatory (is that a word?) attitude across.

I was dragged from NC to VA to CA to DC to MO and finally landed in TN. I sound like a tv newscaster, but I can amp up my twang when necessary.
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48% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Heh - a lot higher than I expected :P
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Post by bobster »

52% -- Right on the Mason Dixon line.

In point of fact, I do live way south of the Mason-Dixon line. In fact, last I used, this all used to be Mexico. Very southern. As we all know, the West Los Angeles-based "Bruin Brigade" nearly changed the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg, but that's another story.

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Tp'ing was interesting. It's always been "tping" in West L.A., but it had as, I think, a Great Lakes thing.

When my mother says "roof", it sounds like "ruff", instead of rhying with "poof," like it's gosh darn supposed to be.
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62% Dixie. hmmmmm.
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53% Right on the Mason-Dixon line. Considering I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, about 30 minutes from the Mason-Dixon line, that's eerily accurate.
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Post by Fishfinger king »

41% Yankee - but barely.
I don't think it's designed for UK use - 'Aunt' rhymes with 'aren't' and none of those suggested. Car-boot sale wasn't a choice. And it's sparkling water.....
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57% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line
, which is odd for a Dubliner.
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Post by Otis Westinghouse »

I have been very fond of the Mason-Dixon line since reading Pynchon's splendidly shaggy Mason & Dixon.

I can be described as an extreme southerner, seeing as I grew up in Jersey, right near France, but then again my blood is all from Manchester and above, so I'm a curious hybrid.
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39% Yankee. Huh? How very confusing and dull...
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Post by ReadyToHearTheWorst »

38% definitely a Yankee - Whey ya bugga, cud a fuled me like! :?

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Post by LessThanZero »

36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

But Moody, we all go together so well!
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Post by LittleFoole »

"66% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line" LOL....pretty funny, beings as I spent 33 years living in southeast PA and south NJ, and another 11 years in MI before moving south to TN for the last 3.....go figure....LOL
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Post by miss buenos aires »

36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Yes, well, I haven't even ever been to the South (unless you count DC), so I guess that figures.
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Post by Poppet »

ah, DC.

land of southern efficiency and northern hospitality.

"79% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!"

duh. i did learned to modulate the accent early on, but i am a southerner. (you try saying 'lookee yonder' to the kids you just met and see their reaction. go on, try it.) i'm from Virginia, mom's people are from Tennessee, dad's people are from South Carolina. i ain't no yankee, though i do live in the frozen north.
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