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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:20 AM
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Quick test for regionality

Have you seen this website? http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

Have some arguments with it, but fun anyway. Would propose a couple of other questions, too....
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:24 AM
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76% Dixie (pink neck!)
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:32 AM
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I got 76% Dixie too...
Sort of makes me proud because I've never felt particularly "southern", but I'm proud of where I come from.
(That said, I'm happy to be living in Yankee territory now)
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:39 AM
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Scored 47% barely yankee yet I was born and brought up in New England. Have to admit though I've lived up and down the east coast so I guess I'm a neuter!!!!
Now living and retired in the great state of Montana.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:41 AM
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Hey, that was pretty good! I 'just barely Yankee' (50%) which would seem strange since I'm Canadian but we spend a lot of time in the southern US and lived in NJ for several years.

Still, there were a few answers where it could be two of four.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:42 AM
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Huh! 40% full Yankee, although a lot of my answers were "Great Lakes." I don't even like the question about what you call a group of people ("you-all," "y'all", etc.) because I grew up saying just "you," with no "all" whatsoever. But after a long time in NC, I do say "y'all" from time to time because I think it's useful and gentler when you're saying something like, "we may get hurricanes but y'all get earthquakes."
 
Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 10:57 AM
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Definately a Yankee here. Fun quiz!
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:00 AM
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another Yankee- at 33%! That shouldn't surprise me. Fun quiz- sent it along to friends, both North and South.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:00 AM
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43% Yankee (Barely) Well, thank goodness
as I've been a Westerner my entire life ! AZ,CO&CA, with a brief year in Boston. Test leaves out about half of the US-with a brief nod to CA on the soda question. Love to be in on the new an improved re-write version!

R5
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:01 AM
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76% pink neck.

I'd add in a question:

What do you call the wheeled contraction in the grocery store?

A. Cart
B. Basket
C. Buggy
D. Other
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:10 AM
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48% Yankee (barely Yankee). :0) that was fun! I was born and raised in Vegas, however we have so many people moving here from "everywhere" that we get/hear/use a broad range of terms. I have to say though, that it IS definitely a sub sandwich NOT a hoagie!
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:18 AM
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60% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line


Interesting quiz. I was born and raised in NE Florida but spent summers in Ohio.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:18 AM
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Buggy!!!
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:22 AM
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Oops for the typo. I guess I'd use the sort version?

I use a buggy and take it back to the cart corral.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:33 AM
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I got "25% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy."
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:40 AM
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Yankee Doodle Dandy! 26% here.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:40 AM
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49% Barely Yankee. considering that I have lived all my long,long life in the Deep Deep South, I must be one mixed up person. Maybe it has something to do with living in a port city with lots of tourists.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:50 AM
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22%-no wonder my new coworkers in OR call me the Cranky Yankee! Guess it will be years before the Jersey is out of me!
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 11:54 AM
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I'm from Ohio and being a southern wannabe my score of 54% makes me so proud I could actually eat grits.
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Old Nov 10th, 2005 | 12:24 PM
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Pretty interesting! It got me right at 43% barely Yankee. I was born in Boston of Bostonians but raised in rural town in Maryland and married a man from a rural town in Kentucky.
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