OT: Are You A Yankee Or a Dixie Speaking Person ??

[Guest guest]

I'm 75% Dixie which doesnt surprise me, cuz y'all know I'm from

Texas. Hee hee (Actually surprised I wasn't more than that!)

Pat

[Guest guest]

Well I took this for the fun of it, even though I am a skip (Australian)

here is my result:

 

100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

 

So now, is this a good thing, or a bad thing? LOL

 

Deb

 

-

" Butch Owen " <butchbsi

 

Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:25 PM

OT: Are You A Yankee Or a Dixie Speaking Person ??

 

 

> If you take this test .. you might be surprised what you are. :-P

>

> http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

[Guest guest]

Butch, I drive 1/2 hour to work and that's not but about 10 miles.

Would take at LEAST an hour away from the city to really be country

around Houston. And then in rush " hour " it would be more like 2 hrs

to work, which is why we've not been able to move " out " yet.

 

Wonder if we'll be too old to enjoy the rural lifestyle if we ever

get there?

 

Pat

(in the big city)

 

 

> As for me .. when I retire-retire .. or maybe even before then, I

plan to live a rural lifestyle. Driving a half hour to the city is

my kind of living. Butch

[Guest guest]

Deb ! Well fancy running into you here :-))))

 

I did the test just for the fun of it too - I got 44% Yankee (why

doesn't it put that as 66% Dixie??!) ... but there were a few questions

that didn't give an option for my pronunciation ... like 'Aunt' for

example ! So how do you pronounce that, Deb ;-) I'm an old country girl

from way back ... and from the OutBack at that !

 

Jane :-))

 

Deb Mahoney wrote:

 

>Well I took this for the fun of it, even though I am a skip (Australian)

>here is my result:

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Oh Jane, I am in many, many places....I'm the quiet type, you know that!

 

The Aunt one had me stumped, there wasn't a pronunciation for me either, so

I just went with Ant which I guess really isn't close at all......there were

a couple that I probably just took the next best option.....but like I said,

all in fun.

 

How did you fair weather wise yesterday? I did the smart thing and went to

my MIL's airconditioned house........please let this heat wave end soon.

 

Deb

 

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" Jane Eliza " <jane

 

Sunday, February 22, 2004 8:52 AM

Re: OT: Are You A Yankee Or a Dixie Speaking

Person ??

 

 

> Deb ! Well fancy running into you here :-))))

>

> I did the test just for the fun of it too - I got 44% Yankee (why

> doesn't it put that as 66% Dixie??!) ... but there were a few questions

> that didn't give an option for my pronunciation ... like 'Aunt' for

> example ! So how do you pronounce that, Deb ;-) I'm an old country girl

> from way back ... and from the OutBack at that !

>

> Jane :-))

[Guest guest]

Hey - Where's all the Yanks? Born and raised in Pennsylvania - now living in

the City of Brotherly Love, home of the hoagie, cheesesteak and Tasty Kake.

What more could you ask for?

Namaste,

Lynette

Terralyn at the Terminal,

Philadelphia, PA

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hey Karen,

 

> Then I'm suthran through and through. Born and raised in a town with

> the population of 2000 and that included the sheep and turkeys. You can

> take the girl out of the small town but you cant take the small town out

> of the girl... some people call me hick. I don't care, wouldn't change

> a thing.

> Karen Jones

 

Nothing needing changing that I see .. and hick simply means a country

dweller .. a provincial .. though it, and other terms .. like Redneck ..

have taken on negative connotations due to the growth of the language.

If you go back to the very old dictionaries you'll find Redneck meaning

a working class, political conservative, white person in the rural

Southern USA. In later years, they added politically conservative OR

REACTIONARY white person. Where they came up with that is a mystery to

me. And .. my black buddies down in Guthrie, KY are always joking about

being Black Rednecks .. they are as proud of the term as are the White

folks. The Mexicans settled there give us hell and say we will never

have the necks as red as theirs. Redneck has NOTHING to do with racism

but a lot of folks would like to connect it to that.

 

My last trip home .. I went to the State Line Service Station .. an old

hangout for farmers and working class white, black and Mexican .. no

druggies and smart asses .. run by Lew, a buddy I went to school with.

They've not sold gasoline in 30 years but keep the name .. my hometown

is on the line .. half in TN half in KY and the KY side is dry. Point

is, they arranged a bar-be-que and one feller brought the hawg .. on a

Saturday we had a helluva time .. all the three groups above .. and the

Sheriff arranged to have his deputies haul folks home that night .. the

Sheriff also grew up with me and Lew. That's down home stuff. Butch

 

> folks who live a rural lifestyle or are farmers or ranchers or

> mountain folks .. that's what Suthran is really all about in modern

> times. Its about knowing your cousins and your neighbors and your

> sheriff cause he's a home boy .. and living in an area where those

> around you have lived for many generations and other

>

> things associated with small town or rural type living as compared to

> the hustle and bustle of the big city where the closest one gets to a

> wild critter is seeing a rat or a pigeon. ;-P