quiz

[rainbabies]

[DCJenn]

52% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line


Which makes sense as I grew up in Maryland- the southern part of the Mason-Dixon line!

Jenn

[Auspicious]

30%

[Rapunzel]

54% (Dixie) - "Right on the Mason-Dixon Line"

I grew up in Texas and to be honest my grandparents all sounded like hicks from the sticks with their accents and slang. My mother made a concerted effort to teach all of her kids the "proper" way to speak American English. If being average is proper then I guess she succeeded with me!

Jennifer

[Vanquisher]

43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I would guess that is cause I am neither a Yankee or a Southerner. I have lived in both places, but I am from the Intermountain West.

Things that I have noticed that the quiz left out.

What you carry your stuff in (ladies):
1)Purse
2)Handbag
3)Pocketbook
4)Wallet

and

What you put your groceries in:
1)Shopping cart
2)Basket
3)Buggy
4) Either 1 or 2
5) Something else

and almost swearing, but not quite:

1) Oh my heck
2) Gosh
3) Holy smokes
4) Darn
5) Dang
6) Etc.

There are many, many pseudocurses, and everywhere it is something different.

57% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon

Hmmn...I think I understand the results. Grew up in Virginia but currently live elsewhere in the South. I have never lived North of Virginia (and I'm talking central Virginia -- NOT NOVA). I also lived for a few years in the Deep South. I think I'm more "Dixie" than the score suggests but the confound herein lies -- my dad is from the Great Lakes -- and I noticed a few of my answers on this short test were typical of that region. Then again, maybe it's no so much of a confound -- perhaps my speech is truly less Southern.

Fun test.

[Rapunzel]

Good points, Heidi!

And, I might add to the list - HOW do you pronounce some of these things? For instance:

What you put your groceries in:
1)Shopping cart
2)Shopping kaat
3)Basket
4)Carriage (used almost exclusively in the Boston area)

[DCJenn]

I just usually go for the original curse word in question.

Friggin' and flippin' are my two in the presence of the small child though.

Jenn

[Rapunzel]

I'm more of a "good grief", "good heavens", or silly things like "flippity doo-da". I also tend to say "Oh my goodness". I sure use "good" a ton with my pretend cursing I just noticed!

[Flynn]

41% Yankee. Both my parents were raised in the Midwest and my paternal grandparents are from New England.

I got 35% (Yankee), you are definitely a Yankee.

Kind of surprising I grew up in the Rockies! I think my speech and pronunciation is most like "TV English" -- not much discernable accent. I was surprised they didn't ask how "wash" is pronounced. My grandmother would air-dry her "warsh" on the potty-o (patio).

I had never heard of Cabbage Night (or any of the others) or putting one's groceries in a "poke".

[Vishenka69]

46% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

The part of US I've lived in (and spent the greater part of my life in) is NYC. How did that "barely" get there?

[Meenah]

52% Dixie, right on the Mason Dixon line. True, I grew up and went to college in Mississippi, but have been in New Jersey for a long time.
Luanne

[Phoebe]

31% Yankee. Most of my answers said Great Lakes Region and midwest. One answer said common to Michigan which is where I grew up.

Jennifer

[mommax3]

53% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

I have lived most of my life in central Indiana, except for four years in San Antonio (the only accent I heard there was hispanic) and another four in north TX (which had a decidedly different accent), and I guess my answers reflect that pretty well. My mom has lived her whole life in Indiana and I know she would have answered at least two of the questions differently....she always calls soft drinks "pop", and she says "crick" instead of creek.

Whenever I take these kind of quizzes, I wonder how much tv dilutes regional accents and speech patterns.

Sally