How southern/northern is your accent?

[Endangered Specie]

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


I score 84% :scared:

(i believe the lower the score the more yankee you speak and visa versa)

[GrpCaptMandrake]

1. Oh, there's a dandy topic

I bust my rear end not to sound too local unless I'm doing so deliberately, but even in my most "newscasterly" voice, the northerneres tell me how southern I sound and the Southerners snort and say "Yankee!"

Ack!

[Jamastiene]

89. I get that a lot too. n/t

56% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line.

[deadparrot]

2. 50% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Strange. I was slightly Dixie last time I took it.

Meh. I suppose it comes from living in the midwest--we get a bit of everything.

[LaurenG]

26. Me too

50% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

[XemaSab]

3. 44% Yankee

I've got Minnesota ancestry... oh yah.

[In_The_Wind]

4. 91% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?

Yes, I do believe he was.

[RobbinsdaleDem]

5. 41% Yankee

Minnesotan here.

[MrSlayer]

6. My accent is very South Philly. 34% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

I really lay it on thick when I'm out of state. It's a lot of fun really.

[Patiod]

71. Asking for a glass of wooder is my big tell

I've gotten the horrible multi-syllable "O" under control, working hard on saying a nice crisp "st" - as in Street and straight instead of schtreet and schtrait, but What-er just sound weird to me. It's wooder, dammit.

(and blueburies, not bluebearies)

[Abelman]

7. 38%

I'm from Michigan.

[jmm]

8. 28% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

The closest I've ever been to the south is New Jersey.

[misanthrope]

9. Mine says...

...I still sound like an American.

Though I scored 65% Southern (just below the Mason-Dixon), I can identify with the other poster who gets the "Are you some kind of Yankee?" from Southerners and "Oh, you must be from the South" from those outside the region.

[GirlinContempt]

10. 24%

but I'm from Canada :P

[NMMNG]

11. 39% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Considering I was born and raised in New England I'm not surprised.

[Solon]

12. Oh shit, number 7 doesn't apply to me!!!!

I never use "You all", "Y'all" or any of the others to address a group of people, its "Hey Guys!", regardless of who is in the group.

ON EDIT: Leaving it blank, I'm 49% Yankee, putting in the first answer (You all) doesn't change it either.

[Xithras]

13. Born & bred Californian, we don't have accents.

"Dude" doesn't count.

[Tikki]

28. Thaught is sooo right...

..like we sooo do naught have an accent.....


Tikki

[Lochloosa]

30. Well, you know like that is bogus.

[XemaSab]

80. I have been told before that I have

THE WORST BAY AREA ACCENT EVER.

:(

(WTF that means, I don't know)

[LeftyMom]

83. Yer like soooooo right!

:hi:

[Rue]

14. 53% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

Not surprising, considering I'm a native Tennessean who needed formal speech training to learn how to talk.

[yewberry]

15. 21%--I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Yep, I grew up in MA and NH.

However, there are some categories that just don't have real New England answers!

#1--Aunt doesn't rhyme with want (but that's the closest I could vote, I guess.)

#4--Second syllable in pajamas? Sorry, neither is that close to "jam" or "job."

#6--Cot and caught? Two totally different-sounding words. Get real.

#9--Um, hello? Italian!

#14--"Groshry bag."

#16--Tonic. C'mon, folks. It's tonic. Do some research!

[tigereye]

47. my gps from Mass

called it tonic. They thought it was so funny that we called soda "pop."

[yewberry]

61. My entire family calls it tonic!

'Course, my family also says "bahthroom" and "tomahto." My inlaws never understand anything they say for about the first 10 minutes of a conversation.

I worked hard to lose the accent, but there is still one word I can't say without stumbling.

Cardboard.

G'head, try to say it without thinking about it.

You can? Okay, maybe that's just me.

[tigereye]

66. I love that Mass/outside Boston accent

We loved how my GM would say Cah, instead of carrr (we talk more like my mom, who's from upstate NY)

pahk the cah.... I still really like it. My dad still sounds a little like that even though he's lived around here for 50 years....

[Starlight]

16. 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category. n/t

[RebelOne]

17. 45% Yankee.

I was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Miami, FL and am now living in Georgia, but I still consider myself a Yankee.

[NewJeffCT]

18. 24% Yankee

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

[Mutley]

19. 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I've lived in the North, the South, and Texas (TX, NY, GA, VA, MD -- in that order -- my Dad was in the Navy) so I have a pretty good mix.

[WCGreen]

20. 29% Yankee.....A doodle dandy, I am......

[NMMNG]

21. So it looks like you didn't get any sleep huh?

:-(

[WCGreen]

22. Nah.... Restless.... Ate something and stopped in to see

what was what...

I am so tired now, though, I think I might be able to sleep now...

[NMMNG]

25. I hope so

Insomnia only adds to anxiety problems. :-(

[Devra]

23. 43% Yankee.

most of my responces were the most common nation wide.

[Lumily]

24. 82% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

[Err]

27. 31% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

:woohoo:

[jus_the_facts]

29. 100% Southern Drawl....ask anybody who's talked to me around here....

.....don't need a stinkin' test to prove it! :blush:

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

31. 55% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

Which is right on the button, I live about 35 miles south of the Mason Dixon Line in Maryland....

[nutsnberries]

32. 35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

[LynneSin]

33. I've taken that test - not very accurate. I have a weird dialect

I've got a Pennsylvania Dutch accent from growing up in the area but after 4 years of North New Jersey roommates in college my accent has a smattering of "Joisey Girl"

[Arkana]

34. 25%. I'm a damn Yankee, through and through.

[Bridget Burke]

35. 60% Dixie....

I've lived in Texas most of my life, but my midwestern grandmother didn't allow an excessively Texan accent. And she'd also raised her daughter that way. A bit of true Yankee on my father's side, but he was not a longstanding influence.

I went to school with rural Texans who thought I talked funny. But I do occasionally lay on the Texas thing--better than Shrub! One of the few skills taught better by the Pasadena Independant School District than by Andover.

[hyphenate]

36. 40% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

I'm definitely a Yank–born and raised in Boston!

[City Lights]

37. 30% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy. n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. 36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

my accent is indian though

[chknltl]

39. I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy...

I have been told that folks here on the far left coast speak with the same accent as any of the National Newscasters, (NBC, ABC, CBS),: 0 accent. Furthermore I understand that we annunciate our words very close to the way Funk and Wagnalls believe words should be annunciated. Must be something in our lattes.

[Shell Beau]

40. 86% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

I knew I'd be very southern. People from here (Mississippi) think I sound southern!! :)

[Mizmoon]

41. I call those bugs that roll up "water bugs"

That's not even a choice! Boo hoo! :cry:

[lady raven]

42. 35% (Yankee) You are definitely a Yankee

And I was born and raised in Oklahoma. Go figure.

[SaveElmer]

43. Yankee...although

They didn't ask about that subtle canadian/scandanavian accent Minn-a-soootans have goin on...you betcha!!

But overall...I would say the whole quiz was a heck of a deal!!

[Saphire]

44. 96% dixie....

[RubyDuby in GA]

45. 65% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

I thought it would be much higher. Or I'm just one of those liberal elitist snobs who happens to live in the South.

[tigereye]

46. only 41%

which is odd since my Dad is from Massachusetts. However, we have all lived in yinzerville ( SW PA) most of our lives....

[kick-ass-bob]

48. 73% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!

I have never heard of a drive thru liquor store - so I'm not sure why 1 of the responses has a heavy NC tilt. :shrug:

[lizziegrace]

50. Same

I'm pink too!

[Doc Sardonic]

49. 100% Dixie.........nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. 33% - I'm a Yankee fer sure!

[Fenris]

52. 65% Dixie

Texan.;)

[flamingyouth]

56. 45% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Are you wearing off on me? :D

[Fenris]

57. Probably.

:D

[WeRQ4U]

53. 31% - My Great Lakes / Northern accent shows through.

I even say "You guys" like they said.

[nickinSTL]

54. 35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

no surprise.

Lived in the midwest (or Germany) all my life...

St. Louis is the furthest south I've lived.

[SteppingRazor]

55. 55% Dixie... I was born and raised in California. n/t

[tjwmason]

58. Mine's utterly southern - but that's southern English not southern U.S.

I certainly don't speak any yankee at all - still less damn yankee.

[Hugin]

59. 100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?

Ah, no... LOL!

Was General Grant yours?

[Trigger Hippie]

60. 67% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

Makes sense mostly. I am from Louisiana. :)

[fleabert]

62. 80% dixie...no surprise...

[BikeWriter]

63. 90% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?

Nope, but it's my middle name!

[Lady Effingbroke]

64. 92% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?

I didn't know that using the phrase "feeder road" to describe "the road along an interstate highway" was so geographically limited. I live in Houston, and that is definitely what they are called here.

[grrl62]

65. 56% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

wooo!

[bigwillq]

67. 35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

:bounce:

[Lannes]

68. Never had a strong NY accent

But what accent I did have is now gone after 10+ years in Fla.Wouldnt mind going back and getting a New York accent again but Im not sure its the same city I left.

[mwdem]

69. 47% Yankee

I grew up in the South & have moved a lot in the past 25 years.

[momophile]

70. 57% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line...

but I was raised in WI, CO and CA! However, my Mom was raised in South Bend, IN and she sounds southern. We tease her that she's from southern northern Indiana. At least I don't say "warsh" for "wash"!

[Catbird]

72. 62% Dixie. Just under the Mason-Dixon line.

It drove my mother crazy that her children, who grew up in the South, actually spoke like they had grown up in the South.

[trackfan]

73. 55% dixie - Lived in Los Angeles my whole life

[bertha katzenengel]

74. w/out this test, my accent is just a li'l southern, by marriage...

I posted this earlier but got no hits...

My eldest sister was commenting upon my inherited southern accent, and said, "I like it better when you use all your syllables."

I told her, "fkyou."

[VaYallaDawg]

75. 84% for me, but I don't think I sound that Southern ??

[Horus45]

76. An old girlfriend used to make fun of my accent

because instead of saying "with you" I would say "witchoo".

[Jokerman]

77. 48% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

78. 33% (Yankee) You are definitely a Yankee.

Weird, I'm a fifth generation Californian, so I should have a Californian accent by now. :shrug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

79. "34% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee."

Yup, that's me :D :D

Go Maineahs!!

[last_texas_dem]

81. 68% Dixie

I've taken this test before, and I think I scored the same.

Oh yeah, and it still bothers me that they don't have what I call putting toilet paper on a house ("wrapping") as an option...

[ForrestGump]

82. Way off base. "41% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category."

Most of my answers put me as hailing from the Great lakes/Midwest region, a part of the US I've only spent a very short time in. And I've never lived or had an extended stay anywhere in the Northeast -- barely even visited anywhere north of DC.

Must be a garbled result on account of my bein' such an International Man of Mystery.... :-)

Damned Yankees.

[eyepaddle]

84. 36%

But they really don't have a ton of question really specific to where I live. c'est la vie

[malachibk]

85. 41% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I agree. Though I am 100% Yankee, thank you very much.

[CottonBear]

86. 84% (Dixie) and proud of it! n/t

[tallahasseedem]

87. 50% Barely Yankee.

Shhh...Dont tell anyone here in the South.

[trof]

88. 60% Dixie "Right on the Mason-Dixon line."

OK for a guy from Alabama, I guess.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

90. 46% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Probabaly because I said I use the word "y'all." I HAVE lived in the south for 12 years now.