A former roommate of mine lived in Texas for a number of years and learned how to drive there. One day when we were driving around she said something about getting on the “feeder”. I had absolutely no idea what in the hell she was talking about. I thought she meant a road named Feeder Rd. or something like that.
Once I figured out what she was talking about I corrected her. It is called a frontage road.
I’m 65% Dixie. I guess that explains why when I answered the phone at my friend’s house the other day, his aunt heard me and thought I sounded like a southern bell…
Geez something is wrong here. I scored “50% - barely into the Yankee category”. I’ve lived in the Boston area all my life which I thought would guarantee me a far greater degree of Yankeedom. Why didn’t the question ask how do you pronounce ½ ? (The correct response is “harf” of course). Plus I eat fried chicken with a knife and fork which is a trait totally overlooked on the alleged test.
Highly Indignantly,
Reginald Sargent Cabot Lowell Lodge IV
81% Dixie–and, yup, I do have Confederate ancestors.
So, what do you folks who have a special name for Halloween Eve do that night? I’m usually finishing my costume and stocking up on candy for trick-or-treaters myself.
I got 50%, a number that’s prit-near meaningless. The remarks on my answers were either “general across the whole U.S.” or “Great Lakes region.” I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, so the large number of Great Lakes Region answers just confirmed what I already knew.
79% DIXIE. You don’t know how thrilled I am, because my first 9 years were spent in Ohio, before moving to Atlanta. Then another 11 years in Ohio from mid-twenties to mid-thirties. Anyway, southerners have always said I talk like a Yankee and Yankees think I have a southern accent. Now only diehard Mississippians can tell the difference.
I can’t wait to get my wife to take the test. You’ve heard people talk about 110%, well that should be her score.
I think most Mid-Western people are going to come in around the 50%. We really are not Yankees or Dixies. We speak very plainly. Most network television newscasters are from the Mid-West and Plains for this very reason.
Seems rather high, though I have lived in small-town Texas nearly all my life (and the last three years in Houston).
I thought more of the questions should have had an either/or option. I use the following words interchangeably, but had to pick just one: “frosting” and “icing,” “frontage road” and “feeder,” “water fountain” and “drinking fountain,” “bag” and “sack,” and “tennis shoes” and “sneakers.” For some, I picked the one I thought I used most often. For others, I just picked one.
38% definitive Yankee. Gonna have me a pop to celebrate. Can’t believe there are people that pronounce cot and caught the same. Or that you don’t know about Devil’s night. That really frosts my cake.
My score reflects the parallel I live on. .Yankee it calls me, but really I’m neither, since I’m from Wisconsin, I consider myself at the heart of the Midwest