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Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
The Alpha Dictionary Site ^ | Dr, Goodword

Posted on 04/04/2005 10:55:38 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

To find out how much Southern blood your language shows, simply choose the words you use below, then press "Compute My Score!" at the end. The alphaDictionary will compute your score and tell you where you're coming from: are you speaking Bubbaese or are you a Yankee Doodle Dandy?

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

How do you pronounce Aunt?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: diction; dixie; rebel; yankee
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To: patton

DC area right?


21 posted on 04/04/2005 12:17:16 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Mark in the Old South

The original corner marker is 200' from my house.


22 posted on 04/04/2005 12:21:14 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: SwinneySwitch
45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I need to move back to North Carolina.

23 posted on 04/04/2005 12:23:47 PM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: Mark in the Old South
< grin >

What's that long sandwich with lots of cold cuts and toppings?

Sammich, of course

24 posted on 04/04/2005 12:23:50 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
87% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
25 posted on 04/04/2005 12:24:40 PM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: azhenfud

New question: Cart or Buggy?


26 posted on 04/04/2005 12:25:03 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stan the beaver
From wikipedia.com regarding Sam Houston:

"After the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845, he was elected to the U.S. Senate together with Thomas Jefferson Rusk. Houston served there from February 21, 1846 until March 4, 1859. He was considered a potential candidate for president. But, despite the fact that he was a slave-owner, his strong Unionism and opposition to the extension of slavery alienated the Texas legislature and other southern States, especially with his support of the Oregon Bill (1848) and the Compromise of 1850 and his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He was a lame duck senator from 1857.

He ran for governor of Texas, unsuccessfully in 1857 and successfully in 1859, making him the only person in U.S. history to be the governor of two different states. He resigned in March 1861 following his refusal to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. He was replaced with Edward Clark, having refused the use of force to prevent the secession."

Interesting.
27 posted on 04/04/2005 12:26:31 PM PDT by beeler ("When you’re running down my country, Hoss you’re walking on the fighting side of me.")
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To: stainlessbanner

We shop with a buggy; ride a cart while playing golf.


28 posted on 04/04/2005 12:30:51 PM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: SwinneySwitch
Aunt = Ant

Forest = Faaarest

Orange = Areange

Drawer = Draw

Florida = Flahrida

Take a guess where I'm from if you don't know already.

29 posted on 04/04/2005 12:33:35 PM PDT by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: SwinneySwitch

48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Odd since I was born in NYC, lived almost all my adult life in California and now live in Texas.

Although when in grammer school my parents lived for a short period of time in Texas (McAllen) and Florida (Miami)

So I probably have a lot of different ways to say things.


30 posted on 04/04/2005 12:34:29 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (I'm overhauling my Fantasy League team for Martinsville, so watch out!!)
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To: patton

Son that explains it. You are behind the enemy lines.


31 posted on 04/04/2005 12:36:00 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Mark in the Old South

The Church at the Falls (Falls Church) was used as a stable by the Army of Northern Aggression. They actually ripped out Geo. Washington's pew, to fit more horses in.


32 posted on 04/04/2005 12:41:28 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: SwinneySwitch

79% Southern. My dad is from Michigan, so maybe that's where the other 21% comes from. Do you know how Yankees are like hemorrhoids? When they come down and go back up, they're ok. When they come down and stay, they're a real pain in the a@%.


33 posted on 04/04/2005 12:42:23 PM PDT by Apollo
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To: Apollo
ROTFL. I haven't heard that one before.

I don't mind Yankees, even the damn ones that come here and stay, but Lawd 'ave mercy son don't tell me how it was done in Cleveland.
34 posted on 04/04/2005 12:47:30 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Clemenza

drawer = droar

Georguh?


35 posted on 04/04/2005 12:48:08 PM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: azhenfud

Proud New Yorker, now suffering in Seattle (get me out of here please!!!).


36 posted on 04/04/2005 12:50:49 PM PDT by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: beeler

Houston also served 2 terms as president of the Republic of Texas!


37 posted on 04/04/2005 12:51:29 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Remember, this is only a temporary exile!)
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To: azhenfud

New York = New Yawk
Long Island= Lawn Giland
:-)


38 posted on 04/04/2005 12:51:53 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (My quaker parrot can talk, can Your honor student fly?)
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To: Clemenza

Sorry - I couldn't tell by yer accent...;-)


39 posted on 04/04/2005 12:56:18 PM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: SwinneySwitch
83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

Louisiana coonass.

40 posted on 04/04/2005 12:57:12 PM PDT by bad company (this space for rent)
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