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February 16, 2005, 12:31:46 PM »
Here's the test
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48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Which is surprising, since I've only lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Brazil.
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February 16, 2005, 12:35:44 PM »
It annoys me that
you guys
wasn't even an option in the question whose response said
you guys
was favored in the northeast. That's what I say, dagnabbit!
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February 16, 2005, 12:38:42 PM »
That dad gum link thar didn't work, TaterHead.
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February 16, 2005, 12:46:24 PM »
Ditto.
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February 16, 2005, 03:33:56 PM »
I fixed the link. It should work now.
I got 48 percent Yankee, too. Odd, considering that most of the answers said "common throughout the U.S." or Great Lakes/Midwest/Intermountain West.
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February 16, 2005, 05:52:51 PM »
52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. I think Coke and Crawdad pushed me over the edge. Other than that I'm right down the middle, which makes perfect sense.
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83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
I
do
have a Confederate ancestor.
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February 16, 2005, 09:02:09 PM »
58% Dixie. Which makes sense -- but too many questions had no good answer. Like, I use icing and frosting, but they don't mean exactly the same thing. Same with the two pronunciations of caramel.
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February 16, 2005, 09:36:13 PM »
There are two different meanings for car(a)mel? Is one philosophical or something?
I'm 48% Yankee, which makes sense since I'm half Texas and half Wisconsin.
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February 16, 2005, 10:07:31 PM »
No, there are caramels (think Kraft) -- little chunks of semi-hard candy that soften when chewed or melted; and carmel -- goo that squirts out of candy bars when you bite them.
Of course, I have been known to use the one when I meant the other. And the boundary is admittedly, ah, mushy.
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February 17, 2005, 09:03:37 AM »
See, the odd thing is that I'd define them in the opposite manner: carmels are those hard things in wrappers, but caramel is gooey.
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February 17, 2005, 09:24:32 AM »
Here's a stupid question: what's the difference between 48 percent Yankee and 52 percent Dixie?
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February 17, 2005, 10:21:25 AM »
I think it's worded wrong. I think there's one absolute scale - 0% being total Yankee and 100% being total Dixie. That's why it told me that my 48% Yankee was just barely into the Yankee category. It should say - 48% (Yankee).
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February 17, 2005, 10:24:57 AM »
Ah. That makes sense.
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February 17, 2005, 11:09:48 AM »
41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
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But that was going with my childhood accent/vocab. Let me try again Calif. style.
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57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
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That doesn't make sense to me. More of my answers switched to the 'use commonly throughout the U.S.' category. Perhaps those are scored as neutral or something.
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February 19, 2005, 12:17:54 AM »
43% yank.
Although some people seem to think i'm a canadian..
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February 19, 2005, 09:10:42 AM »
It's 'cause you're always saying "hoser."
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February 20, 2005, 05:27:49 PM »
hahaha!
I don't even recall using that word, let alone around you guys.
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February 20, 2005, 05:49:08 PM »
Maybe you monophthongize your /o/'s and /u/'s.
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February 21, 2005, 08:03:36 AM »
If he does, he's sorry.
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February 21, 2005, 07:58:27 PM »
As far as I can tell I don't.
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February 21, 2005, 08:26:44 PM »
I'd have to listen to you speak. But I don't remember you sounding particularly Canadian when I've seen you in person before.
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February 21, 2005, 09:14:17 PM »
The only reason I said it was: When I went down to a BYU meet, and you or Brinestone had said I had a canadian accent.
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February 22, 2005, 07:59:35 AM »
That was one of us? I honestly don't remember that.
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