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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
CheddarMelt said:
Second one, 25% Dixie. Sorry, but anyone who picks "bubbler" should automatically be labeled 100% Northerner.
Yeah, but they should be incredibly aware of every answer on these quizzes, particularly for the questions for which there isn't a good answer for the Sconites, Northern Minnesotans, and Uppers (also if one said "Pop" for soda, though that's less region-specific). I grew up in the military and have moved to every corner of this country since, so I couldn't help be aware of regional differences as I answered. I also deliberately choose some regionalisms for personal affect in my personal speech, because I'm an ass, and they have become part of my normal speech; so I pronounce words such as naked as NEK-id, just to be . . . hmmm, odd, I guess? From all that, I now have the deeply introspective questions of why I chose to answer everything with the Northern answer rather than the Southern (the region in which I've spent most of my life). Damn---thanks, Twisted Logic, for making me think about myself, and why I do what I do.
And I got 11% and 58% Dixie, so who the hell knows where I'm from?
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