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There's a quiz that computes wether you are Yankee or Dixie based on language. I came up with this result:
37% (Yankee). You have a good Yankee score.
What I found very interesting was that it gives regional results for each question. Most of my responses were labeled as being common in Michigan and the western Great Lakes. My mom is from Wisconsin. So even though I grew up in California, my speech patterns are influenced by the Midwest (and southern England, of course.)
Take it yourself:
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/quiz.htm
37% (Yankee). You have a good Yankee score.
What I found very interesting was that it gives regional results for each question. Most of my responses were labeled as being common in Michigan and the western Great Lakes. My mom is from Wisconsin. So even though I grew up in California, my speech patterns are influenced by the Midwest (and southern England, of course.)
Take it yourself:
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/quiz.htm
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I'm Southern for at least 3 generations, if you count Texas. I grew up in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina, and went to college in Arkansas. My mother is from Alabama, as is her father's family back N generations; her mother is from Texas, as is my father.
How in the world did I learn to speak Yankee?
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I've lived on the northern side of the Great Lakes all the rest of my life, which was interesting because it nailed that quite a lot (including October 30th being Devil's Night being peculiar to Michigan, nearby -- actually, I would have picked a choice not on the list, Mat Night, but Devil's Night was a clear second).
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