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According to this test, I am "26% Dixie. a dandy Yankee Doodle."
According to this test, done by the same people, I am "48% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom."

I guess that means I am 37% Dixie.

How about you?

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Interesting result indeed. Having done the tests in the same order that you did, I scored 15% ("Duke of Yankeedom") and 40% (Barely in Yankeedom). There were several cases in which I chose an answer that I felt was acceptably close to my pronunciation, a couple that I didn't answer because none was even close, and one or two that were not part of my experience: I've never lived anywhere near a drive-through liquor store, so I have no particular name for it. I have to say that the 15% is a more accurate reflection of reality than the 40%, the first thirty-or-so years spent in Upstate New York, the next in Alaska; but it's interesting to see that I consciously changed a couple of words I got from my parents that would have given me higher Dixie rating, even though they were both born and raised less than a hundred miles from where I spent my youth: they gave me crick, which I changed to creek in junior high school, and I traded in pop for soda probably in high school. The tests were fun, in any case; I wish they had been more interactive.

Peter

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4%, then 35%

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68% and 62% probably betrays my southwest Missouri/Ozarks 52 out of 55 years (3 years in Delaware). And the highway beside the Interstate is the "outer road".

Emmett

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"8% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow?"

Second one, 25% Dixie. Sorry, but anyone who picks "bubbler" should automatically be labeled 100% Northerner.

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