Are you a Yankee or a Rebel?
 

Fun and interesting story today on NPR.

A linguistics expert has develped a test that'll show if you're a Yankee or a Rebel based on how you pronounce certain words and also phrases you commonly use.

I'm a Yankee. If you want to try, here's the link to the test:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

A Yankee...who has people at work bugging me all of the time to say certain words so they can all snicker at my "accent"!

A Yankee @ 59%, I guess my living in the South for over 10 years is starting to rub off.

79% Yankee...

YIKES......73% Dixie!! WAY too much time in TEXAS!! My necks gettin' a bit pink.....:D........or would that be "paink"............

18% Dixie. Wow! You are a Duke of Yankeedom!

oh boy ....

38% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

Okay - I've tried to post this FOUR times...let's see if this one works....

99% Dixie...which speaks to my Mississippi birth and New Orleans upbringing.

DS#1 got an 81% Dixie (that's what I get for marrying a Yank!)

Looking over that quiz a bit more closely there are some serious problems with it on a Linguistic level, but it is fun for a bit of a diversion.

33% Dixie. A Yankee.

55%-Barely in Dixie :D

33% Dixie. I'm a Yankee, actually a Californian, which I believe is a subset of Yankee. My Dixie score would have been lower, because I gave the only answer I had evern heard of to the last question. It was classified as Dixie, although I never have heard of "roll-up bugs" and have therefore never called them anything.

That being said, I love lots of southern food. And the blues and jazz.

100% TEXAN!
Go Mavs!

TTP.....watch for me on TV tonite...I'll be the redhead with the blue jersey on, cant miss me....:D

My result was a Yankee. No surprise. I live in CA but the only ancestors that came from another part of the US were from NH. Fun test esm!

I made the Yankee take the test...I am beginning to rub off on him, he was 33%, still a Yankee but close to Rebel ... yeehaw! lol

39% Dixie - how did that happen?

Definite linguistic issues, but amusing nonetheless :)

I'm a yankee doodle dandy (76%)! I didn't answer #20, because I just don't know about that bug!

Anyhow, around here we speak "Buffalo English."

97% Dixie. No surprise, since I'm a 6th generation Alabamian!

96% Dixie. No surprise here!