Posted on 08/05/2009 9:00:03 AM PDT by navysealdad
The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming. Are y'all speaking Bubbaese or are youse guys Yankee Doodle Dandies? The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming.
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43% dixie here...I think there was a problem with one question. As I understand it, “frosting” on a cake has a butter base + flavor. “Icing” is confectioner’s sugar + flavor. Icing is meant to harden to a shell, like on petit fours, frosting is supposed to stay soft (though after a few hours in the fridge, its softness becomes theoretical). IOW, they’re not the same thing, so tracking a regional difference doesn’t really work. /pedant mode
Not from Texas, but I got here as soon as I could, which is a good thing, because if I had remained in California I'd hafta fight in the upcoming civil war alone and outnumbered!
Although born and raised in CA, I consider Texans "my people". It's a values thing, and my family just doesn't get it.
When I think about where and in what environment I want to raise my kids in, it's a no brainer.
California: Due to brainwashing in the schools, your kids hate you. They blame you for oppressing them for 400 years. They dye their hair green and dabble in lesbianism and marxism. Their liberal indoctrination is so pervasive they tell you that they are never having kids because humans are a plague upon the earth. Your family line ends with them.
Texas: Your kids love you, and are thankful for the blessings bestowed upon them by their creator. They are respectful and well-behaved except for that one weekend at the river with the Coors light girl/dumb Aggie boy. They go into the military after/during/before college, and make you proud. They meet and marry a nice Texas boy/girl and continue the cycle that God created, giving you fat, happy grandchildren.
I got only 97% on the advanced test. Guess it was because my grandmother was from Indiana and passed along her yankee talk to my mother. Wish they’d do a separate test for Texans - we say a lot of things differently from Deep Southerners, like “warder” instead of “wawduh,” but we’re still Southern!
92% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
Not bad for an EX-yankee. :-)
Not bad for an EX-yankee. :-)
Repeated twice in case a yankee didn’t understand it the first time. :-)
Just check my tag line to see how I scored.
100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
I reckon that’s it then...:)
[wish they come up with an “Appalachian” test...things are...”different” here]
58% Dixie, barely in Dixie. Well, I did grow up in the Big Blue Apple but I am not a big liberal, except Hubby./Just Asking - seoul62.....
“Well I have been called a “Northerner” by a Georgia redneck; to which I replied “Northern California you simp”.”
Family from New Mexico and Nevada. They don’t have cricks OR creeks from where I come from.
46% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.(Just like Maryland)
I going to have to work on losing that 22%.
Not bad, considering I have lived in Ohio my whole life. (Well, I was born in West Virginia, but just because Parkersburg was the closest big town to the sticks of southeast Ohio.
I’m too much of a westerner for this to work properly.
Ah yes, the venerable arroyo. Dry all year round, except in monsoon season, then they have the ability to alter the landscape.
This poll is bogus.
Many of the answers are don’t jive with my experience as a born-and-raised New Yorker.
Here are three questions which skew the results.
Question 4:
4 How do you pronounce the second syllable in pajamas?
A-Sounds like jam
Result: Southeastern US
I never heard pa-JAM-as growing up. It was pa-JOM-as. pa-JAM-as is what you hear toward the midwest and Chicago. Maybe Boston too.
Question 6:
6 Do you pronounce “cot” and “caught” the same way?
C-Caught = kawt
Result: Way down South in the land of cotton.
The cotton must be high in the five boroughs of NYC because we all pronounced it like “kawt”, just like we say “tawk” for talk and “kawfee” for coffee.
Question 18
18 What’s the night before Halloween called?
C-Mischief Night
Result: Centered heavily on New York City and New Jersey.
In 45 years, 30 in Queens and 15 in Nassau County I never once heard the night before Halloween referred to as “Mischief Night”. It was given no special name at all. According to Wikipedia “Mischief Night” is used in Northern New Jersey, and everyone in New York knows that “Joisey” is on a different planet from New York. :)
PS: Only the truly ignorant in New York say “youse guys” and “ax” for “ask” as in “let me ax you something”. We would say either “you guys” or “all of you” slurred together like in “all-a-ya get offa my lawn”. Note that “of” often gets contracted to “a” and attached to the preceding word as in “get outta here”.
Here is the TRUE Test!
30 things you will never hear a southern boy say...
30. Oh I just couldn’t, she’s only sixteen.
29. I’ll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex.
28. Duct tape won’t fix that.
27. Come to think of it, I’ll have a Heineken.
26. We don’t keep firearms in this house.
25. You can’t feed that to the dog.
24. No kids in the back of the pickup, it’s just not safe.
23. Wrestling’s fake.
22. We’re vegetarians.
21. Do you think my gut is too big?
20. I’ll have grapefruit and grapes instead of biscuits and gravy.
19. Honey, we don’t need another dog.
18. Who gives a dang who won the Civil War?
17. Give me the small bag of pork rinds.
16. Too many deer heads detract from the decor.
15. I just couldn’t find a thing at Wal-Mart today.
14. Trim the fat off that steak.
13. Cappuccino tastes better than espresso.
12. The tires on that truck are too big.
11. I’ve got it all on the C: drive.
10. Unsweetened tea tastes better.
9. My fiancee, Bobbie Jo, is registered at Tiffany’s.
8. I’ve got two cases of Zima for the Super Bowl.
7. Checkmate.
6. She’s too young to be wearing a bikini.
5. Hey, here’s an episode of “Hee Haw” that we haven’t seen.
4. I don’t have a favorite college team.
3. You All.
2. Those shorts ought to be a little longer, Betty Mae.
AND NUMBER ONE....
1. Nope, no more for me. I’m driving.
78% Dixie.
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