How Southern Are You?
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94%.
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94%.
Like me, the "g" is silent.
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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
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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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.
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.
Like me, the "g" is silent.
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.
Fun site. A lot of the usages place me and people in my family correctly. My mother always used to call garage/yard sales "rummage sales" and she is from Chicago (though her family came to L.A. when she was four.)
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.
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.
Fun site. A lot of the usages place me and people in my family correctly. My mother always used to call garage/yard sales "rummage sales" and she is from Chicago (though her family came to L.A. when she was four.)
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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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.
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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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.
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.