Yankee or Dixie?

[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.

 

[exploder3211]

LOL... I was born near Miami Beach

You gotta love us Miami people.. I have a relitve who used to take her big purse to all the buffets and fill it right up...

 

[jmirawm]

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70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

 

[48bencix]

Native Californian

54% Dixie

I've lived here all my live. Raised in Martinez, went to Berkeley. Lived in San Francisco for 20 years, and Sacramento for 17 years.

Martin

 

[cehalstead]

Spiceman:

Don't you mean "grammAr" and "sHag"??

 

[58limited]

Panthera

I've been to Bavaria twice and I always considered it the Texas of Germany - meant as a compliment.

 

[58limited]

I actually overlooked the link in the first post by Toggles.

My score is 70% Dixie. I was raised in Dallas which had a more mixed U.S. culture, so compared to most of Texas our accent and verbage was not as Texan.

 

[toggleswitch]

Such character(s), it has

I am dying to go see Texas.

 

[rocketwarrior]

57% Dixie

This score actually surprised me as I was born in Minnesota and currently live in Omaha. However, at age 18 I was in the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and my fellow students were very interested in dialectic differences. I found myself listening and, with some international and national travel over the years, actually making choices about certain of my pronunciations. It never occurred that the result, at age 58, would be a dialect that was 57% Dixie. Oof duh.

 

[sudsmaster]

46% Yankee. California has a lot of transplanted Yankees. Myself included! But I seem to have picked up some midwestern and southern dialect from the Others.

 

[exploder3211]

I am dying to go see Texas.

Not that bad i hope, LoL.. I'd love to go visit texas and see its splender, when its not 500 degrees outside.

 

[agiflow]

60% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

 

[toggleswitch]

uhm since when is south Jersey, "the south"