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I'm 43%, "barely in the Yankee category".
However, I'm from Michigan originally, so a lot of the word choices I used ended up being considered "Great Lakes", or "nationwide". The Devil's Night question even had "very common in Michigan" specified (that's the night the arsonists burn houses in Detroit).
Michigan, of course, fought for the Union in the Civil War, but we don't have the same accent as Yankees from New England.
41% barely a Yankee....phew!!! that's good to know!!!:freak:
Couldn't get past the first question...
48% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.
Born in Connecticut, moved to St. Louis when I was five. My dad is one of those people who gets worked up about the difference between "pen" and "pin".
I usually adapt my speech depending on my company, commonly ranging anywhere from slurred and half-hoosierish to very well enunciated "educated" American english. When there's no environmental stress one way or another, I speak pretty much like a St. Louisan as far as I can tell.
DA
No surprise here:
96% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?
Got me on the Service Road vs. Access road question.
44% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category. ---> im UK so didnt understand half the terms they used, what the hell is an interstate highway ~:confused: , and all my pronunciations were proper ~:)
Those are our main divided highways with limited access that form the backbone of our national highway system. They don't have intersections or stop lights and are designed for continuous high speed service. They literally connect the states to one another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scurvy
You might find it useful to learn to speak like the hill folk too. Comes in handy when you are in the Ozarks (or Appalachians for that matter.) My St. Louis college buddies were amazed when I would slip into an Ozark twang with locals when trying to conduct some business. Works well for getting things done when you sound like a local boy...they usually had me do the talking. ~;) Normally, I have a "clean" Kansas/midwest accent, although it is getting more polluted the more decades I spend in Texas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Arroyo
What is this about? ~:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by The test
Is throwing toilet paper over houses common hobby in the states?
(57% Dixie btw. Not that it means anything, as i'm not native english speaker and didn't understand some of the questions.)
It is usually a high school or junior high prank. Throw rolls of toilet paper over trees and houses so that the house is draped in toilet paper hanging like tinsel from a Christmas tree. Never did much for me...Quote:
Originally Posted by Silvouz
What is funny is when someone gets the wrong address. ~;)
Ahaha! I'm British and I'm: 39% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
Only in rural Wisconsin~;)Quote:
40%, but there's nothing for the good old Chicago/South Wisconsin talk: Dem, Der, Dat, Chikago, Samich, Sasage, ect.
44% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.
Lol. I was born near Washington D.C in Virginia but moved to PA and then Michigan, so I guess that sorta fits me.
33% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
Interesting how many great lakes specific answers there were. I didn’t realize how wrong everyone else’s speech patterns were.~;)
47%, barely in Yankee zone.
Actually, I only use a few southernisms (access road and ya'll [possibly the most useful contraction in American English), but was very surprised at the number of Great Lakes regionalisms I use.
Surprising as I was raised in S. Jersey until age 12 and then Northern Virginia until 24.
Seamus
I thought I would do the test to see which part of America influenced me and it would appear that I was influenced almost equally by the north and the south.
52%
I was 55%Dixie. Right on the Mason-Dixon Line.What ever that may mean.:square:
I don't know about your test, but I'm not a hick...
Y'all :rifle:
I live in Texas though... peculiar huh?:dizzy2:
34% yankee.
from oklahoma..
22% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Kag:Quote:
Originally Posted by kagemusha
For what it's worth, Mason and Dixon were two surveyors, hired to define the southern border of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Since Maryland and other colonies South of that line were considered the "Southern" colonies and those from Pennsylvania North as the "North," the Mason-Dixon line became a definitional term for the division of North and South. This is where the South acquired the nickname Dixie.
Metaphorically, of course, to be on the line is to truly be a member of neither camp. Feel empowered to treat either side with equal disdain.~:)
Seamus
52%
Here in Utah they pronounce it 'Yard Sell'
Gah!
ichi
Thanks for the Info,Seamus.:bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
Pshhh. [Real] New Jerseyans[*] and Ohioans (Ohians? Ohiomen? Whatever) speak the least adultered English. Or at least that's what I've heard.
[*]Not the almost New Yorkers, but the actual always lived here types. ~;)