74% Dixie, and I lived in Texas from ages 2 1/2-5 1/2. The rest in the Great Lakes Region. It mus really have stuck!
Lynn

60% Dixie. Just found this, where have I been?

I guess you were out buying a camel! :D
Cute camel, by the way.

49% Yankee - does this mean 51% Dixie??

48% Yank here! Funny quiz.

OK, how does a girl from HI who spent some time in CA get a score of 65% dixie?

Amanda, who were you dating before you met Masaki? :D

Good question, Marc! ;)

Question is good but an answer would be better :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

64% Dixie...I'm a transplant from Long Island,NY!

Well as a 'furriner', I decided to do this quiz. I am 65% Dixie! Hope that's good. Could someone please explain to me what on earth one would be doing when toilet papering a house? Ta. Lee

Lee, it's what teenagers do to each other's homes either (a) when they like each other or (b) when they don't like someone (or at least that was the meaning in the 1960's.)

When I was a teenager (14 or 15) I had a group of guy friends. One night they decided to "roll" my house, but were scared off. At school the next week, I told them they did a poor job.

Well, the next weekend they must have spent all their money. That Saturday night, I returned home with my family to toilet paper streaming over the roof in colors and scents, it was a terrific job of "rolling." My mother was apalled. She insisted that I clean it up immediately. She was afraid the neighbors would think "someone didn't like us." Later, she regretted not leaving it up until the morning. I'm sure it would have looked like a colorful wonderland. Now she laughs about it but she didn't at the time.

Thanks Donna - I must have been deprived as a kid - sounds like fun for the one doing it! One other thing - how do you pronounce Aunt? We say "Arnt" but the quiz didn't give that option. Lee

40% Yankee. I guess growing up in Michigan beats out 15 years in Texas!

I knew we had a lot of things in common!! :D

However, speaking as someone who lived one year in South Florida and 9 years in Guatemala, I have lived my life in San Francisco or the San Francisco Peninsula. Therefore I'm neither a Yank nor a Southerner! You guys back east have the "Mason/Dixon" line that gives that Yankee/Southerner boundry, but out here its the Rockies that mark the boundry of the "wild west" vs. EVERYONE ELSE! :D

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: AL - miss your posts

Lee,
Two ways to say "aunt." I say it like "ant." Other's say it with an emphasis on the "u." Someone help me out here!

The old fashioned way of saying "aunt" in eastern Canada is "ant". The alternative is kind of the way they say it in Britain--this pronunciation seems to have been adopted across much of the U.S. now, and sounds pretentious to my ears--"ont".

My 3 old maid aunts called themselves "wants or onts" as did/does my family from CT - Tony has "ants" ...I am guessing it is more northeastern? where, as in many places, you have the good the bad and the ugly in pretentious- aren't pretentious people annoying???? My neighbors say "ant", things you step on pronunciation, and they are VERY pretentious :D :D :D

Here it is "ants", Joanna, and I don't care pretentious or not. Just the way it is. I would assume a bit different in New England or maybe you are talking about the south?

Yeh, I agree pretentious is very local and situational. Some of us Canadians get labelled pretentious, I'm sure, for saying "aboot".

Old rural pronunciations are strange and fun. My father, who grew up in a farm, pronounced "roof" to rhyme with "woof" (that is, "wuf"), for example. Still quite common in the country, I'm betting.

Olivia: NOR do I care pretentious - I'm not talking about the south - my neighbors are from PA - hey if you like your Mom or Dad's sisters call them whatever -

In the South, I know some people who use "ants" and others who use "onts." I say use whichever "floats your boat."

Wendy, in parts of VA (the Eastern shore and parts of southeastern VA) they say "about" in a different way, can't describe it here but sort of like your "aboot". I think many prounciations have to do with who originally settled the area. They might start out as rural pronunciations but they filter into everyday language.

Donna, you're absolutely right. Does anybody remember that brilliant TV documentary from the eighties called The Story of English, narrated by Robert MacNeil? It was fascinating in that regard. Wish it would be released on DVD, would love to see it again.

Hi all (or should I say y'all),

Well, believe it or not, I scored 89%Dixie. I guess the "belle" came through even though I have lived in NJ for over 15 years.

And Donna, I had to laugh at your story about your house getting rolled....I also was waiting for "buggy" and also for "mashing" the button.

Anyway, a funny quiz and nice little treat during my lunch break! Best, Jan