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Posted by CamaroSCG (Member # 1591) on :

Yankee or Dixie?
Let me know how y'all did ????????????? [Big Grin]

Here's fun dialect quiz.

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

Posted by Archs89 (Member # 1086) on :

I'm 70 % Dixie , so does that make me a REDNECK ?

[Razz]

[ 24. February 2004, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: Archs89 ]

Posted by Mike2001SS (Member # 2088) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Archs89:
I'm 70 % Dixie , so does that make me a REDNECK ?

Don't know Arch but I got a 78%

Posted by DadBoughtMyCar (Member # 2130) on :

55% dixie here

Posted by Mike2001SS (Member # 2088) on :

I did it twice and changed some things the second time just to see. The first time I really got a 68%

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

Hotdam, y'all!! Ahhh reckin at's a purdy good quiz, iffen y'ask me!!! Hey Mike!! Ahhh got me a 76!! YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!! *spit*

Posted by ss_rs_z (Member # 1888) on :

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Just barely a Yankee and I have lived here all my life........LOL. [Big Grin]

Posted by Doug 97SS #1499 (Member # 100) on :

21% Yankee.

Posted by Joey Red (Member # 550) on :

100% Guido! [Razz]

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ss_rs_z:
49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Just barely a Yankee and I have lived here all my life........LOL.

Yessir....*spit*....lookin' lahk ahhhhhm a-rubbin' off on ya there, darlin'.....!! [Big Grin]

Posted by Macky (Member # 1427) on :

80% Dixie here! [Big Grin]

Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :

35% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

Posted by Rhode Island Red (Member # 220) on :

funny thing ... if you keep on clicking on the compute button, it keeps increasing the southern score.... eventually stopping at 100% dixie

it couldn't tell with me... I grew up in Califorina and off/on in Florida ... I guess I broke it [Confused]

Posted by ChuckSSter (Member # 1800) on :

43% yankee . Man I have lived in NY State all my life 70 miles from NY City [Roll Eyes]

. But heres the catch I am on the Border of Pa so I guess thats why .

Posted by twobratSS (Member # 2180) on :

I did it twice...a 52 and a 57...born in Texas, lived here 22 of my 31 years. [Confused]

Posted by OBSSD (Member # 1258) on :

Born and raised in Oregon, ringing in at 44%.

Posted by HOSS (Member # 1464) on :

Born and raised in Alabama, The Heart of Dixie.

I've been in KC too long.

Only 66% for me.

[ 25. February 2004, 12:39 PM: Message edited by: HOSS ]

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

Is there a Canadian version, eh?? [Razz]

*duckssnowball*

Posted by ss_rs_z (Member # 1888) on :

quote:
Originally posted by cytruffle:

quote:
Originally posted by ss_rs_z:
49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Just barely a Yankee and I have lived here all my life........LOL.
Yessir....*spit*....lookin' lahk ahhhhhm a-rubbin' off on ya there, darlin'.....!!

Lools like you are dahhhhhhhhhhhhlin'. [Big Grin]

[ 25. February 2004, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: ss_rs_z ]

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ss_rs_z:
Lools like you are dahhhhhhhhhhhhlin'.

....same here!! Remember that cool new phrase you taught me???? .....starts with a "P"??....LOL!! [Big Grin]

Posted by CamaroSCG (Member # 1591) on :

BTW-Mine was 53% Dixie.
(born in FL, early years in TN and VA, then DE)

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

quote:
Originally posted by CamaroSCG:
BTW-Mine was 53% Dixie.
(born in FL, early years in TN and VA, then DE)

...now where's the Mason/Dixon Line?? [Confused]

<-----talked too much in history class....math class....English class.... [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Cavy Dan (Member # 1352) on :

54%.......DIXIE! [Eek!]

Must be all my visits to Tennessee seeing my brother and his wife. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Harry (Member # 1834) on :

61% Dixie, Born in Canada, lived here all my life. [Confused]

Posted by Camaro_Woody (Member # 1619) on :

100% Dixie, the way I was raised and lived. But no General Lee is not related to me.

Posted by CamaroSS2002LE (Member # 2023) on :

58% Dixie. Guess some of my southern friends can quit calling me a Yankee from now on.

Posted by CamaroSCG (Member # 1591) on :

quote:
Originally posted by cytruffle:

quote:
Originally posted by CamaroSCG:
BTW-Mine was 53% Dixie.
(born in FL, early years in TN and VA, then DE)
...now where's the Mason/Dixon Line??

<-----talked too much in history class....math class....English class....

The Mason-Dixon Line
... and Delaware is a bit confusing since Delaware was a slave state that stayed in the
Union.

Posted by Cavy Dan (Member # 1352) on :

quote:
Originally posted by cytruffle:

quote:
Originally posted by CamaroSCG:
BTW-Mine was 53% Dixie.
(born in FL, early years in TN and VA, then DE)
...now where's the Mason/Dixon Line??

<-----talked too much in history class....math class....English class....

It's the border of PA and MD. I'm 30 mintues away! [Eek!]

Posted by helloween (Member # 1506) on :

68% dixie [Razz]

Posted by CamaroSCG (Member # 1591) on :

….Speaking of funny dialects and the Mason-Dixon line, I came across this.

Not to be outdone by Ebonics in California, the Southern Association of Colleges
& Schools is requesting billions of federal dollars to teach y'allbonics in all
classrooms south of the Mason-Dixon line. Included here are some samples of
y'allbonics. If y 'all do not understand any of them, contact your closest
southern bubba for an explanation.

HEIDI - (noun) -Greeting.

HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage: "Heidi, Hire yew?"

BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - (noun) - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."

BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayum.
Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left
$20,000,000 in improvements."

MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck,
and I ain't herd from him in munts."

THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process.
Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a coke."

IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native."
Usage: "Them Bammer boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.
Usage: "I thank I leff my ranch in the back of that
pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few
munts ago."

ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in
my pickup truck."

FAR - (noun) - A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all
in my pickup truck, that thing's gonna catch far."

TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel.
Usage: "I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't
git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument.

Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, Ah sure
hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Pars sometime."

RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.
Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

FAT - (noun), (verb) - a battle or combat; to engage in
battle or combat.
Usage: "You younguns keep on fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup
y'uh ass."

RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

CHEER - (adverb) In this place.
Usage: "Just set that bare rat cheer."

FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.
Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed.. must be
from some farn country."

DID - (adjective) - Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim."

ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas; oxygen.
Usage: "He cain't breathe...give 'im some ARE!"

BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JEW HERE - (noun) & (verb) contraction.
Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job
with that bob war fence cump'ny?"

HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert. He ain't
thanked but a minnit n'is laf."

SEED - (verb) - past tense of "to see".

VIEW - contraction (verb) & pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City...view?"
[Big Grin]

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

OMGAWWWWWD!!! ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!

At's rat....goodun, Steve!! [Razz]

Posted by Mike2001SS (Member # 2088) on :

It is good and sounds like home to me I understand every word Y'all and to think I only got 68% on my first try at dixie

Posted by Flamin' bird (Member # 786) on :

Im from PA so I KNOW im a yankee [Wink]

Posted by FireChicken (Member # 2067) on :

In the words of country group Alabama...

"Southern born, southern bred."

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