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[gridlore]

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

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[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

27% Yankee -- definitive Yankee (it seems lower is more Yankee). From three months to age 11 I grew up in Montreal, and most of the English television there came from New England; my favorite station came from Burlington, Vermont. And, of course, early- to mid- 70s Sesame Street was very New York.

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).

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

And isn't that interesting: a quick Google of "Mat Night" shows quite clearly that it's peculiar to Montreal. I wonder where that came from, possibly some influence from French? I can't find anything about its etymology.