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