well, not really… but that’s what the dialect test thinks. my yankee co-worker scored 8%.
i got a score of “95% dixie” (and proud of it!). she laughed at me, but secretly i was the one laughing at her!
i’m always self-conscious of my accent when i speak in front of people up here. sometimes visitors at my church look like deer caught in headlights – seriously, i can’t imagine what they think of this southern worship chick.
to make things worse, wednesday i read a section of scripture during our seminary chapel service…
guess what the first word was?
LIKEWISE!
my pronunciation: lahk-whahz
i told our worship leader that was the WORST word he could’ve picked for me to start with!
after reading scripture to the whole international seminary chapel, i think my fellow seminarians would believe me if i told them General Lee was my grandfather!
anyway, my whole point is for you take the stupid test, because we COULD be long-lost cousins or something!
86% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money? … that was my score!
“40% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.”
heather! LOL!! girl…. be proud.
hahaha this is funny. I was born and raised right here on the southeast coast and all I got was “58% Dixie. Barely in Dixie” I guess the fact that my dad is from Connecticut will have to appease my wondering!
“74% Dixie. Your neck must be a just little rosy!” Nice.
’47% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.’
I guess my 8 years living down South is still working on me a little bit!
i’m from NY…so i’m not thinking i’d score too high in the dixie department.
89% Dixie here…glad living in the Midwest and being married to a California girl has only messed up 11% of me…
“36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.”
Bummer. I knew all the true southern answers, and I wanted to lie and use those answers…I married southern blood, you see. But, alas, I had to go with my honest to goodness yankee replies.
But I am sending this test to my in-laws!
95% Dixie — No, General Lee was not my grandfather, but my husband’s name is Stonewall Jackson. No, I’m not kidding.
I have relatives in Oregon who like for me to say my “Aay, Bea, Cea’s”
“55% barely in dixie”
not surprising for me, though. people usually can’t tell i am from the south…
My score…
36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.
But when I’m mad or talk fast…I bet the percentage goes up
I scored 33% Dixie.
Which wasn’t surprising since I haven’t even visited the southern states, much less lived there. Born and raised in CA. Spent 11 years in Oregon and Washington, and can now add New England to my list of places I have resided. Maybe next we should move down south and push my Dixie percentage up a bit
Where should we go Babe? I hear Georgia is plenty warm this time of year…
hutch! YAY!!!! take steph to GEORGIA
rachel: you make me proud!
sarah: i’m surprised you even TOOK the test! LOL
tam: you get that number up and maybe we can be friends.
I’m 52% Dixie. Barely in Dixie (that’s what I get for growing up in Maryland – a middle state that’s considered the “south” to the folks in New England but the “north” to folks in the South. Heck, we could not even make up our mind in the Civil War (well actually the d**ned Yankee “northern aggressors” kept us from seceding). By the way, one of those questions did not even give the answer I’d have used. The night before Halloween in Baltimore is called “moving night.”
92% y’all!
I actually didn’t think my Texan-ese was that bad until I met my friend’s parents one summer. From their home state of Michigan they had come down to the Texas coast and then up to DFW area to see my friend. When I asked her mom, “So y’all just got back from Corpus Christi?” I got silence in return. Not because she was rude but because she didn’t understand a WORD I said!!! I have never lived that down . . .
Stonewall Jackson Parker Page is completely distraught that his wife is 95% Dixie and he is a mere 81% Dixie. I think we may have to go eat some bbq to make up for it. Wait, do they know what bbq is up here?!
Um… we’re cousins!!! 100% here!!! Born and raised in the south and apparently it is very obvious! I lived in WA for 4 years and people would ask me to talk (which is never hard) just to hear my accent… Strange!
rachelpage: try tennessee’s bbq – it might do the trick! and i heard he was stonewall jackson!!!!
lauren & leilanni: i’ll see y’all at the family reunion!!!!!!
38% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.
but only because of the crawdad’s and that is because my mom’s family is from ky in the tri state area!
wait a second. i did the pajama one wrong….
43% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
lorijo – that 5% makes a big difference!!
97%…even after 2 years in Wisconsin (where they actually do say “bubblers” and “pajaaaamas”) and a year-and-a-half in New England, where one hears all kinds of unintelligible words. Of course, I did just get back from 15 blessed days in my homestate of Texas!
53% Dixie. Barely in Dixie
I’m so dissappointed… please don’t tell my family (although my mom was born in NY)
I do notice when I get around folks with a southern accent, that mine does tend to show it’s hick side a little…
Don’t think worse of me