Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
50% Yankee. Which is as it should be for a Yankee who was born in the South, raised in the Steel City and had a proper military education in the South.
craig mc – I think everyone at AL is still awaiting Bear’s second coming… I’ll try not to tell your mama on you for acting ugly anyway…
Missbirdlegs,
Yes, please spare my mother the embarassment, she’s in poor health as it is, her heart might not take it.
Byron,
I agree that U of Florida has had a good run. But in that championship football season they lost a game. Who to?
Then last year they lost at home! To some sorry team whose name escapes me. And whose Quarterback is suffering from Myasthenia Gravis.
Gravity kicks Brandon’s ass. Gators not so much.
2 and 0 against them.
57% Dixie… despite living in Puget Sound!
Oh, well… I guess college in Kentucky, grad school in Tennessee plus living in Pensacola and Alabama took its toll!
Grew up in Western Montana, Washington and Nebraska… dad was a small town community church pastor. Thompson Falls, Montana holds many great and wonderful memories of youth!
Sorry, Miss Birdlegs, but I must go with Craig Mc… “WAR EAGLE!”
PeterGunn is my new best buddy.
55% Dixie which I attribute to endless hours watching reruns of “Dukes of Hazard” and sitting through “Cool Hand Luke” a half dozen times at a tender age and not at all to attending high school in Huntsville AL.
85% Dixie. Mom from Indiana, Dad from Ohio, but I’ve lived in Florida all my life. Along with most of the snowbird refugess from Indiana and Ohio.
That’s just how tough the South is. It’s grows on ya’ll like kudzu.
Hate to be the turd in the punchbowl and break up this good ole boy and good ole gal Dixie grab ass giggle fest but the main point of this thread seems to have been high-jacked.
In an attempt to get back on point let me remind you that the basic premises of the whole exercise itself (i.e. taking the test) is compromised by the simple fact the one can jigger the results to come to any result the one wishes… an accomplishment much easier for those of the Yankee persusation than for those who revere the Butternut Boys of the lost cause. Best
53% (Dixie). For someone born and raised in southern California… Raised by my father and his mother, she from Oklahoma (while it was still Indian Territory) and he from Texas. Although you couldn’t tell from listening to him.
When we lived in CA, my neighbor could always tell when I’d just gotten off the phone with my folks back here in AL
Same here, sort of. Worse. It didn’t matter where they were from, I’d end up sounding like whomever was around when I was young, more by vocabulary than accent for non-southerners.
Except I used to speak Spanish with a German accent. Probably still do.
“… an accomplishment much easier for those of the Yankee persusation than for those who revere the Butternut Boys of the lost cause. Best”
Bullshit Snake.
For the record the right team won the civil war.
But to say that only yankees are worldly enough, well enough educated, to appreciate the subtleties of enunciation, vocabulary and all like that is insulting in the extreme.
Pistols at dawn.
58% Dixie. Who woulda’ thought the Brew Thru (I wore out one of those andy capp t-shirts) would ever be a geographical qualifier?
66% – it shoulda asked what you put on grits.
I musta lost some while I was in Japan…raised in small-town NC from 3rd grade through college.
Brian
Snake-
You put the “Damn” in “Damn Yankee” (which to me is redundant.
68% Dixie. Not bad for a girl born and raised in SoCal. However, my momma was born in TN and grew up in Mississippi and I am a product of my raisin’.
When we lived in CA, my neighbor could always tell when I’d just gotten off the phone with my folks back here in AL – it’s contagious!
I always knew who was on the phone because momma would answer, “Hello” and then proceed to yell, “Hey! How y’all doin’?” and move on from there.
Maybe that explains why I can slip into a souther accent entirely too easily (as my husband will attest after spending 3 weeks with him in Alabama recently…). Heh.
I thought it was supposed to be the War of Northern Aggression. {insert large Yankee smirk here}
Nose, Many thanks for the kind words. Best
Snake: I got yer back…
45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
I don’t test well on these things, having grown up in Silicon Valley with a variety of extraneous influences (Midwest/Plains, BBC, Pogo, etc.).
I used the answers nearest my defaults, though in fact my pronunciation varies with context and intent (e.g., “caramel” has two syllables except when I want to distinguish it from Carmel-by-the-Sea, not that that’s pronounced the same anyway), and I’m kinda haphazard about some terminology (I might call a rummage sale by any of the names offered except “tag sale”).
Born and raised 20 miles from Boston, with a year in Pennsylvania and a year in Detroit before I started 1st Grade. Moved after my sophmore year of H.S. to the Chicago suburbs. Went back to Boston/Cambridge and spent 4 years at the more academically inclined school on Mass. Ave. (as opposed to the one that has a Division I football team). Moved back to Chicago and have lived here ever since.
45% Yankee, and I can’t figure that out – it should be close to 100%. I have travelled south of the Mason-Dixon line 3 times I believe, for a total of about a week and a half’s time, as my company is HQ’d there. The first time I was on the phone on a conference call, I asked the following question within 5 minutes:
“What’s the difference between ‘y’all’ and ‘all y’all’?”
General hilarity ensued.
I currently speak Midwestern Standard, but put me on the phone for a few minutes with old friends back home (or when I go out there to visit my daughter) and I’m “pahk’in the cah” and ordering “a cup a’ chowdah and a lobstah roll” pretty quickly.
Ron F, Fret not my boy …see my comments # 33 & # 58 above and all will be revealed…a piece of cake for a BU Alum…verdad?? Best
71% Dixie. Not bad for a southwest-Ohio boy.
Then again, my mom was from West Virginia, and I grew up about a dozen miles south of Hamilton, Ohio, known locally as “Hamiltucky.”
Inferring from the test, there’s a healthy subset of “Great Lakes”-speak in southwest Ohio. I wonder if that’s due to the I-75 corridor?
Hmm … 74% Dixie. Born in Florida. Never lived longer than 3 years anywhere until high school in Idaho — then I married a Navy man and traveled some more. However, I’ve got a good ear for accents (except for relatives in Savannah, GA — somehow, they’re the toughest to understand).
But then again, I’m the one who was raised by left-handed parents who were both taught to be right-handed on some things, so I do those left-handed.
Just call me messed up.
43% Southern born and bred, but too much time as a MILBrat in Germany, Oregon, then 13 years in SE Ohio. Of course, this one is just about speech patterns. The tests that look for attitudes I score quite high into the Confed category.
When I took this test I scored 100% Dixie. It even asked me if Robert E. Lee was my grandfather. Though he was not my grandfather, we do have a common ancestor in Charles Lee of Northhampton County Virginia born in 1656. I was born and raised in Texas and left Texas in 1966 (some say to become a Vista Volunteer in North Dakota and if you remember that Federal Program, you are at least as old as I am) Since North Dakota, I have lived in Michigan, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. There is an old adage that says you can acquire a Texas or Southern accent but you can’t lose one. Apparently, If I’m an example you can’t lose Southern speech habits either. Or maybe one just does not want to lose such cultural treasures!
50% Yankee – which is probably about right according to my business partner….being that I am from South Jersey – a portion of which he likes to note is below the Mason-Dixon line….
Virgil- what fighter squadron and time frame were you in Danang? My uncle was at Danang until 9/30/71 (my name on here is in recognition of him)….I’m always on the lookout for people who may have flew with him.