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by David and Tim Bayly on April 7, 2006 - 7:17am

Jeff Moore just send me a link to the Yankeetest and I took it. On the Yankee/Rebel continuum, I scored 33% Rebel--pure Yankee, y'all. After the test, I explored its host, the alphaDictionary.com. It's the best dictionary site I've run into.

One surprise: Despite a sitewide search, no luck finding a word with questionable credentials that I still like, 'flustrated.' There's hope, though--Google has it on 27,200 pages.

And while we're at it, if you haven't checked out Doug Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary yet, do it.

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Submitted by Brandon on April 7, 2006 - 10:24am

Tim,

I got a 55% (Barely Dixie). That's not too bad for a guy who grew up with Southerners for parents! I grew up hearing my Dad say things like "Well, you might could" and "barbed whar" (instead of barbed wire). My wife may disagree, but I think my accent's pretty normal.

Submitted by Jeff on April 7, 2006 - 11:34am

No such ambiguity for me, I am afraid. 73% DIXIE for this ol boy. I was even born in yankee-land.

For the record- its a "Po-Boy."

Submitted by Rachel Pierson on April 7, 2006 - 11:58am

I got 30%. I can't imagine why I got that! It must be that if you're not from the east coast, you're part hill-billy.

100% Michigander

Submitted by Bill K. on April 7, 2006 - 4:33pm

I was excited at first, because I thought it was a test on knowledge of the New York Yankees. Much to my dismay, it was a different kind of yankee test, which I took at received a score of 39%. The question about 'creek' was interesting. When I'm talking about a city, such as Battle Creek, MI, I say creek, like rhyming with meek. But, when I'm talking about a the creek of water by my house, I say 'crick'.

Another thing I find funny is when I used to go down south for work trips, within the first two minutes of a conversation, the people there would always point out that I must be from the North. However, here in the north, we don's seem to point out there speech to them.
Southerners seem to be fixated on the whole thing.

Still must be upset about that war from 1860-1865. GO YANKEES!

Submitted by Jacob Mentzel on April 8, 2006 - 1:30pm

Funny. My pastor back in Evansville (Indiana) has an unnatural preoccupation with the word 'flustrated.' Except he pronounces it 'flus-terr-ayted.' Sometimes in my pagan past I was known to count how often he would say it in a single sermon. He's from Kentucky.

Interestingly, I scored a 70% Dixie on the test and was told I was from "Just south of the Mason-Dixon line." For those of you who don't know Indiana geography, Evansville is on the northern banks of the Ohio River and couldn't possibly be any closer to sitting on the line. So I blame my Mississippi family and my Kentucky pastor for pushing my speech across the river.

By the way, whenever I go to family reunions in Mississippi or Alabama, I'm completely lambasted as a northern snob for my manner of speech. Ha, in fact, at the Ford dealership in Bedford, Indiana, just south of Bloomington, I was pegged as an East Coaster- maybe from Boston by the desk lady and a customer who were having a conversation about dialects in their drawls. Yet when I went to Boston last year everyone thought I was from Alabama. Weird how being from the mid-west muddles these things.

Submitted by Stephen Baker on April 10, 2006 - 4:42am

70% Dixie for me. I grew up in Connersville, Indiana, but my brothers and I always call it Connerstucky.

Submitted by Chris Atkins on April 10, 2006 - 11:38am

55% Dixie. Barely in Dixie

Submitted by Adam Spaetti on April 11, 2006 - 1:42pm

74% Dixie for me. fun stuff.

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