Yankee or Dixie?

[frontaloadotmy]

54% Dixie

Whoda thunk?

 

[toggleswitch]

See that is why I kinda like a city and state or province or country in there.

Where are ya?

 

[polkanut]

40% Yankee here, and I always thought of myself as being a 100% "Sour Kraut".

 

[toggleswitch]

Borrowed pic.

oh God see what you did? Now I'm hungry and salivating.

 

[exploder3211]

48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Ok I was born in Miami, raised in the WNC mountains.. Everyone can't understand what Caw-fee is..

 

[cehalstead]

Toggle:

Your tourists weren't scared...they were "skeerd"........

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Toggles witch

tcgr is currently (and mostly has been) the Western Sierra
Nevada Foothills.

 

[toggleswitch]

Yes they were!

But to be fair I'd be just as lost in their world as they were in mine.

In NYC highways are known by NAME, not number. And many streets are numbered and some are named.

So when one goes to MAPQUEST to get directions and it's in route numbers we scream! Where the hell is route 678?, ah the BQE. Route 495? ah the LIE. 95 WHT? ah the Cross Bronx.

And exit numbers. NO NO NO the streets are numbered so exit numbers just makes it all the more confusing.Like I said, it's all what you get used to and come to accept as normal.

But I have to laugh in this city of immigrants (where English is apparently optional and not to be taken seriously or as necessary), that car travel routes are named. TE HE HE HE lets make it difficult for them go get around!

 

[toggleswitch]

TYVM

 

[gadgetgary]

49% Yankee here....

Can we now have a grinder???

 

[toggleswitch]

oh Archie

Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade
Guy like like us we had it made
Those were the days!

Hero, submarine, grinder make up yer freakin mind!

Hey ding-bat, Edith get me a "san-wich" will ya ha?

 

[oxydolfan1]

47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Hard to believe....and, y'know, I never got the whole "tennis shoe" thing!

 

[appnut]

78% Dixie, and no I ain't no chick!!!

Jon, y'all'd be welcome with open arms back here!!! And btw, I only knew the term fedder roads all the time I grew up in Houston. Umm, could be because the first freeway was built when I was a yungun, knee-high to a grasshopper.

 

[toggleswitch]

Dixie Chicks = Musical group
Chicks with Sticks = Actual female hockey team
Chicks with, well, uh Money for hormones but not enough money for sugery.

 

[appnut]

Toggle, I knowd all 3 of them thare defnitions yew posted.

 

[toggleswitch]

*LOL*

Y'all are too citified for li'l ole me!

 

[frigilux]

A fun thread! Thanks, Togs, we needed it.

 

[Unimatic1140]

37% Yankee. My three years down in Fort Lauderdale thankfully didn't effect my Yankeeness as Fort Lauderdale is a suburb of New York City anyway.

 

[panthera]

That explains everything

66% Dixie.

Well, Munich is in the South of Bavaria in the south of Germany...
Here's what other Germans (and Europeans) say about Bavaria, my "State" here in Germany:

It isn't the biggest but thinks it is.
It was once an independent country and still acts like it was.
The accent is a drawl 'cause the folks here are plum too lazy to speak properly.

And this is what the Bavarians tell the rest of Germany (and the world):
Our everything is the biggest.
We have the best culture.
Our universities are the best.
Our sport's teams are the best.
We always know better.
Our neighbors to the South are shiftless and lazy but good waiters.
Our politicians have twice thrown the constitution out of the window in the name of political expediency (after the war).
We were the last to write the death penalty out of the consitution...

Well, ah'll be...sure does sound famil'r, don' it?

 

[gyrafoam]

I haven't seen the "weiner mobile" since one of the "Pride" parades here back in the '90's. Too funny.

 

[toggleswitch]

oh chil' I blatantly "borrorowed" that pic from a memeber who just posted it recently.

 

[toggleswitch]

NYC is an island too... .

...And the smaller the island the louder the natives generally roar.

 

[abcomatic]

40% yankee here. Gary

 

[spiceman1957]

Re: Yankee/Dixie

I'm 66% Dixie, I thought I would be higher. When I moved
from the rural area to the big city and went to college, I lost some of my bad slang. It would be interesting to hear from our friends from the UK and Australia where proper English is the rule.

 

[panthera]

John,

I hate to burst your bubble, but neither the Australians nor the folks in the UK speak English any better than the US-Americans do.

Having travelled extensively, I would venture to say that more folks in the US speak and write English well than do the vast majority of the English.

One thing is true of these other English speaking countries: They tend to prefer their elected leaders to be literate and able to use the language effectively. I have heard debates in Australia which were so well formulated one might almost believe the politicians actually meant what they were saying.

 

[peterh770]

Yankee by birth,
Dixie by the grace of God!

 

[foraloysius]

European and 61% Dixie...

 

[decodriveboy]

"...And the smaller the island the louder the natives g

Found that to be so true in Miami Beach; a very Yankee place indeed albeit South!

 

[re563]

Born and raised in Pennsylvania I scored a 60% dixie!!!!--go figure

 

[spiceman1957]

Kevin,

Perhaps,I should have explained myself better. Of course,
the majority of Americans use the English grammer correctly. However, there are folks here that have terrible grammer and don't care how they use in the written or oral form. As far as slang is used, the North, South, even the UK and Australia have their own slang, which I am not polking fun at all. I find it so interesting that one word in this country has one meaning whereas the same word has another meaning. The one that gets me is the word "sag", which in North Carolina means a type of dance that goes with beach music. In the UK, it definitely means something else. I hope I didn't offend anyone.