Are you really a Yankee??? (Raleigh: house, move to, garage)

[Jenaten]

Great quiz! I scored 86% Dixie. I think that's the highest so far. Of course, I was born and raised in Alabama. You can't get more more Dixie than that. As far as the tennis shoe issue goes, I grew up pronouncing them "tenny shoes" also. It must be a deep South thing. I did manage to kick the habit of calling all sodas "Coke".

[mommiewrites]

Originally Posted by Jenaten

I did manage to kick the habit of calling all sodas "Coke".

i still call it all coke. doenst matter what it is, its coke. lol

I think i lost some southern points because of some of the words and pronunciations I use - I dont say 'crik' (though I know people who do)...and most of it was the standard, or most common way of saying things, is how I say them.

I make my daughter 'speak correctly' also - I'm forever correcting her grammar and pronunciations!

[ROW]

51% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

Does this mean Im not Yankee? I never even lived anywhere outside of NY. Confused???

[raleightransplant]

I scored 63% Dixie. I hail from the Midwest originally, but I always refused to refer to anything as "pop". That just always bothered me!

[ampetry]

I got a 63% (Dixie) and a 7% (Massachusetts), and I'm born, raised and (unfortunately) still in western Pennsylvania. I always knew I didn't belong here

[Funky Chicken]

62% Dixie. I was a little surprised at the number of my answers that were described as "Midwest-Great Lakes-Michigan" given my score.

[NYer]

55 % Dixie for me!

[Snowpea]

53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

Approaching my sixth year in the US. (One year in Durham and five in Cary). In my home I still speak British English. I do make linguistic adaptations when I go out and about (garage sale becomes yard sale, icing becomes frosting, pajamas can rhyme with jam, route can rhyme with clout. trainers are running shoes etc).

[findingmesomeday]

41% yankee (barely yankee). Hmmm...I grew up in Philly. I guess that's close enough to the Mason-Dixon line?

Went to college in Boston.
Spent the next 20 years in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and Virginia.
Moved back to MA in 1997.

Can't get to the Massachusetts quiz. Darn firewall here @ work (lunch break!). I'll try from home later.

[VaNC]

100% Southerner! And proud of it!

But I must say I used the terms I learned as a kid and have used most of my life. At this point in my life, I(or anyone that has moved or traveled at all or, like I, have a spouse from another part of the country) certainly have the other terms for things creep into their vocabularly (i.e. sneakers rather than tennis shoes, you guys rather than you all, etc)