Pop or Soda?
I normally avoid these quizzes, but this one was actually interesting because it tells you the regions that use certain phrases/pronunciation, and I've long found linguistics interesting:
https://www.moline1968.com/dixie.htm
(I grew up mostly in the Chicago suburbs: 41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.)
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- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
What the heck is he thinking » the quiz madness continues - Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
Found this over on KC on Exchange and Outlook. I grew up in Wisconsin without realizing that we have an... - Anonymous
February 19, 2004
I apologize for the messy posting!
http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html#
http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/ - Anonymous
February 19, 2004
Be sure you don't change any of your answers until after you compute your score. If you mess up, you need to clear and start over. It does make a difference in the score.
I ended up:
86% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
Most people say I don't have much, if any, Southern accent, but my word choices give me away. - Anonymous
February 19, 2004
Funny thing I grew up just south of Chicago and also got 41%. I guess Chicago is not really North and not really South. - Anonymous
February 19, 2004
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February 19, 2004
54% Dixie. Grew up in Kansas. - Anonymous
February 19, 2004
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February 19, 2004
Oops, I hadn't noticed the instructions about not changing... but I redid it with the same answers, and got 40%.
I gotta say, pretty dumb code that can't handle changing answers pre-scoring =)
It was a fun walk through my past, to remember poking at "potato bugs" as a kid, going "garage saling", frosting cakes, etc =) - Anonymous
February 20, 2004
66% Yankee and ive only been to the US 6 times ;) - Anonymous
February 20, 2004
73% (Dixie). I'm from New Zealand. Go figure :) - Anonymous
February 21, 2004
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