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| Posted by: Shamalama 06-Apr-2005, 02:24 PM |
| Simply click on the correct answer. As you go, the quiz will automatically interpret each answer to show you what your answer implies about you. When you are done, press Compute My Score. Your score will be calculated as a percentage: 0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/lgrob/southern_dialect_quiz.htm This test is based on results from the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey of 30788 respondents. Shamalama's Score: 79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! |
| Posted by: MDF3530 06-Apr-2005, 02:44 PM |
| 35% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. |
| Posted by: Dugadelphia 06-Apr-2005, 03:33 PM |
| 41% (Yankee). "Barely" into the Yankee category by the quiz standard, but most regional responses were heavily Great Lakes . |
| Posted by: catlynelizabeth 06-Apr-2005, 04:30 PM |
| 45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Yeah right! I've lived in the northeast my entire life and some of the things that they said is southern or southeastern, my friends and I say daily and none of us have lived below Pennsylvania. Not sure how they can be typically southern when people from the northeast use them in daily speach. |
| Posted by: Shadows 06-Apr-2005, 05:19 PM |
| 65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! |
| Posted by: MacEoghainn 06-Apr-2005, 05:49 PM |
| 77% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! (not bad for someone born in Ohio, Southern Ohio that is!!!) |
| Posted by: Monarch's Own 06-Apr-2005, 06:26 PM |
| 50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Well I am a halfbreed then - but not a born one LOL I guess we in Germany take half of the Yankees and half of the Dixies and be merry about it. |
| Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 06-Apr-2005, 06:41 PM |
83% (Dixie). Was there ever any doubt?  |
| Posted by: Macfive 06-Apr-2005, 08:20 PM |
| 37% Yankee; although I am not entirely sure this script is working properly. I hit calculate again and again and it gave a different score going all the way to southern. I definitely have a New England/Boston accent. For some reason when I speak to people down south they love my accent. Of course, I love their accent too but I don't detect my accent. By fate do I live in the North. My ancestor Hugh MacArthur from 1770 was headed towards North Carolina where in supposedly had family. He was ship wrecked off Prince Edward Island 1770 or so...... |
| Posted by: VetteGal 06-Apr-2005, 11:24 PM |
| 43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Being from the Chicagoland area my entire life I didn't expect to be either. |
| Posted by: Ceciliastar1 07-Apr-2005, 03:34 AM |
| 65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! That is the weirdest thing ever. I was born in Indianaand now I live in Ohio. I've barely even visited the south, weird! I'm totally a northerner by birth, I just never knew I was a southerner by heart...haha! |
| Posted by: Sonee 07-Apr-2005, 08:12 AM |
| 61% A Definative Southern Score! Okay, Nebraska is neither North nor South. I do, however, live in the southern part of the state which could possibly account for my score. Of course, most of my family came to this state from North/South Carolina, so, perhaps at the core I am southern!!! (one can only hope!!!)  |
| Posted by: Herrerano 07-Apr-2005, 08:30 AM |
| Well y'all, this is what it said about me: 92% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? Y'all oughta here me talkin' Spanish  |
| Posted by: MacEoghainn 07-Apr-2005, 04:28 PM | ||
That's because you are so far south you're almost north! (did that make sense?  ) |
| Posted by: Herrerano 07-Apr-2005, 05:54 PM |
| It is kinda hard to get Slim Jims and Moon Pies down here though. |
| Posted by: morgana_l_f 08-Apr-2005, 12:57 PM |
| 41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Though most was Great Lakes. |
| Posted by: ceiligirl 23-Apr-2005, 05:46 PM |
| 51% Barely Dixie. Origianlly form Texas but we grew military and spent half of my youth in Europe. However I have lived in South Carolina for about 20 years!!! Go figure?! |
| Posted by: emerald-eyedwanderer 23-Apr-2005, 07:43 PM |
| 48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. I'm surprised I'm not more. Born and raised here in Michigan. |
| Posted by: WizardofOwls 23-Apr-2005, 08:50 PM |
| 71% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! See, ya'll? I TOLD you Virginia was in the South!  |
| Posted by: Dreamer1 24-Apr-2005, 09:02 AM |
The first time I took this quiz, my score was 63% Dixie. I was surprised because most of the responses said common across the US, or were common to Great Lakes and Midwest regions (I'm Ohio born and bred, parents both from Indiana). So I decided to play around with the answers a bit, just to see how my score would change. I chose phrases that were more attributed to Northern, when I could, then recomputed --the lowest score I managed was 52%, still in the Dixie catagory. Something fishy here, me thinks  ..................Dreamer1 |
| Posted by: stevenpd 24-Apr-2005, 12:24 PM |
| This ol' boy from So Cal: 79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! |
| Posted by: MDF3530 24-Apr-2005, 12:28 PM |
Well, are you south of the Mason-Dixon line?  |
| Posted by: Athdara 28-Apr-2005, 02:31 PM |
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| Posted by: Deborah_MacGillivray 04-May-2005, 07:26 AM |
| I'm Scot...so I guess I am a rebel |