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[/quote]33% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.[/quote]
That test pretty much hit me on the head. I'm an Ohio boy, transplanted to the state of MD (get me out!!!!!)
The second test put me at 98% Midland, which is where I have spent much of my life, so I will open up a can of pop and celebrate!!! All the dang yahoos around here call it soda. Where I grew up, soda is the stuff you put in cake mix and had my mouth washed out with when i got a bit foul mouthed. Ick!!! Don't want to drink that stuff. Fun quizes!!
__________________ "The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize." George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
On the first site, it came back that I was 84% Dixie. I think my father had some Confederate money and its somewhere hidden in his stuff that hasn't been found yet.
That was interesting. 48% Dixie. So about half and half, which sounds about right. Most of my answers either said New York/New Jersey or way down south in the land of cotton. Mind you, I do not have a British accent that you are likely to have heard very often. Forget Col. Freemantle in Gettysburg. One woman I met in Virginia did recognise my accent. She said "I know that accent! Thats Sergeant Lewis from Inspector Morse!" She was right.
One thing I have noticed about the American accent, is that in large urban areas such as Atlanta or Fredericksburg, I can detect no difference. Only when travelling in rural parts of the south does the old southern drawl become apparent. When I visited Andersonville some years ago, the presidential election was taking place. I was walking down the street and happened to glance in a shop window. A passing woman said "The lady who owns that shop 'll be raart back. Shes jest gawn te vowt." Beautiful accent.
We mostly place far too much emphasis on the arcane. Usually, we figure out the differences and end up communicating. There are, however, anomalies. There was an incident in Memphis. The waitress had three plates in her hand, she had determined that this one went there and that one went there, but she was confused as to where the third one should go. I'm not kidding!
But it is unfair to associate the entire south with one idiot waitress. The south is something else. Don't know your situation, but I'll suspect that if you go to another part of England, you'll note some difference. I've had some fine experience with southern gentility and courtesy. Although I'm also convinced that after we left a large tip and many smiles, they spoke harshly of Yankee buttheads when we were gone. A strange situation with which you might be familiar. We are clannish after all. Aren't we?
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__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Another fine example of a different regional accent was on my first visit to Gettysburg. I did the tour where the guide actually drives in your car with you. He was Ray from Noo Joysee. His best line was "Dees guys woynt going to run. Dey was Noo Yorkers!" I liked Ray. He really knew his stuff and was a real character.
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