Does Don C. Talk Thisaway? Way OT

[vanbuskirk]

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/southernese.html

I scored 73% Dixie on this one.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

It pays to have a Kentucky grandma. Bob

[Merle Coggins]

Cool, that was fun. I scored "36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."

I was suprised to see "Bubbler" listed with "Water Fountain" and "Drinking Fountain". That's definetly a SE Wisconsin/Milwaukee thing.

Merle

[Guest Nile Limbaugh]

I'm 57% dixie which doesn't surprise me since I was born in SE Missouri but raised in the Chicago suburbs. Hey, I'm fluent anyplace!!

[D25_Steve]

35% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

Intersting, because I am definitely NOT a yankee

A lot of americans have given me strange looks when I ask for a 'pop'. (or ask if they want a pop, etc.)

[Merle Coggins]

A lot of americans have given me strange looks when I ask for a 'pop'. (or ask if they want a pop, etc.)

Steve, I grew up in a "pop" region (northern Wisconsin), but I always seemed to prefer "soda". Now living in S.E. Wisconsin those who say "pop" will get the same strange looks you mention, and maybe even a chuckle.

I was working over in the Detroit area a couple of years ago and I noticed "pop" was used exclusively for soft drinks. We'd go out to eat and they would order a "Pop" or a "Diet Pop" and would expect Pepsi/Coke or Diet Pepsi/Coke.

I've also noticed a similar experience down in the Atlanta area. Everything is "Coke" regardless of what type of soft drink beverage it was.

Different strokes...

Merle

[PatS....]

Hmmm...44% DIXIE!?!?!?

How does THAT work?

Oh ya, they never heard of anything north of the border, it's all snow, igloos and hockey rinks.

Not true...we DO have some mud huts and the rich folk have wood shacks.

[Don Coatney]

I was born a Hoosier.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Based on my score and present address..I must refrain from posting said score for fear of being run out of town on a rail..

[Dwight Pectol]

I'm 68% Dixie. I guess thats OK because I live in Utah's Dixie DW

[Allan Faust]

Seems I'm a yank..... only 38% dixie....

[Guest 51plymouthod]

100% Dixie! I loved takin' the test!

[Guest Nile Limbaugh]

Merle, when you get down to south Georgia it's not coke any more, it's co-cola!!

[Frank Blackstone]

If you consider Briars ( people from KY-tucky) to speak Briarbic to be part of the Dixie lexicon then you missed the word grude. Which is a place where you park you car.

Now I feel better. Frank

[48Dodger]

28%....raised in the California sunshine my whole life y'all.

[Norm's Coupe]

Well, I guess I'm an odd ball. I grew up in Louisville, KY. Left there in 1961 when I joined the army. Guess I lost by down home accent. Lived in the Great Lakes since 1967. I scored 47% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. Of course, Kentucky is on the Mason Dixon Line, so maybe that's why.

[Norm's Coupe]

I was born a Hoosier.

Don,

When I was a teenager just learning to drive in Louisville, all of us guys use to say we could tell if a person was from Hoosier country. That was because it seemed like all the people we saw with Hoosier license plates always took the corners so wide. (A farm tractor syndrome). Hope you broke that habit because in the big race you have to take the corners tight to win.

[vanbuskirk]

When I was in high school, I heard a 'joke' that a 'grudge' was where a Tennesseean parked his car, and a 'cheer' was where he sat. I appeared in a locally produced PBS program, and was contacted by a New England professor who was fascinated by my dialect. I use southernisms ever time I get a chance. Bob

[Ed Griffin]

96% Dixie, musta lost that 4% on the question of what's the road called along the interstate. Didnt have "side road" so had to pick one of the others.

Norm, check this out for where the Mason Dixon line actually is:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Mason-dixon-line.gif/300px-Mason-dixon-line.gif

[Norm's Coupe]

96% Dixie, musta lost that 4% on the question of what's the road called along the interstate. Didnt have "side road" so had to pick one of the others.

Norm, check this out for where the Mason Dixon line actually is:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Mason-dixon-line.gif/300px-Mason-dixon-line.gif

Ed,

Can't believe everything we see on the net. That is unless the history books are incorrect. Kentucky was officially neutral during the war and was a state that formed the Mason Dixon Line. There was also a show on the PBS channel about the civil war and the Mason Dixon Line recently. They also said the same as the history books about the line and Kentucky's role in the war. Of course, individuals that joined in the war fought on both sides.

Actually, that's also how the Kentucky Colonels came to be. They were part of the Kentucky regiment that was originally assigned to protect the capitol of Kentucky during the war against both the north and south. Today the Kentucky Colonel rank is just an honorary commission given by the governor of Kentucky and they work in charities. Received my honorary commission back in 1988.

Never did get a big white hat, white suit or string bow tie though to go with the title.

[Don Coatney]

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Actually, that's also how the Kentucky Colonels came to be. They were part of the Kentucky regiment that was originally assigned to protect the capitol of Kentucky during the war against both the north and south. Today the Kentucky Colonel rank is just an honorary commission given by the governor of Kentucky and they work in charities. Received my honorary commission back in 1988.Never did get a big white hat, white suit or string bow tie though to go with the title.[/quote']

Norm;

How many Kentucky Colonels are there? I have personally met 3 of them in my short lifetime. I met the guy in the white suit several years ago at the airport in Chicago, Sandy Gorin a famed genealogist who resides in Glasgow, and you. Do you Colonels have a convention every so often where you all get together to talk shop?

[PatS....]

Norm, do you get a discount on KFC?

[Ed Griffin]

Norm,

You should look it up and see where the "original" line was made be it on the web or in a book. Years ago I thought it was across the southern states as well until I read that it was'nt from one of the many, many books on the War Between the States that I've collected over the years. This is a very common mistake that is made by many folks, north, south, east and west.

By the way, congrats on your Col. title. My wifes uncle just recently picked up this honorary title as well.

[Norm's Coupe]

Norm;

How many Kentucky Colonels are there? I have personally met 3 of them in my short lifetime. I met the guy in the white suit several years ago at the airport in Chicago, Sandy Gorin a famed genealogist who resides in Glasgow, and you. Do you Colonels have a convention every so often where you all get together to talk shop?

Don,

Living in Wisconsin I don't keep up with them that much and have no idea of exact numbers. However, there are many of them all over the world. They do have meetings and also a picnic each year held in Kentucky. For details of what they are about follow this link. http://sos.ky.gov/executive/kentuckycolonels.htm You can't just join them, you have to be nominated by another member of the order. In order to be approved you have to have performed some good deed. Another Kentucky Colonel nominated me without my knowledge, then presented me with the certificate when I saw him. When I ask what my good deed was he wouldn't tell me what he put on the paperwork. I'm not really that active in it myself.

[Brad Lustig]

84% My waters must have been muddied somewhere along the line. Too many Yankees down here messing up our tea, too. There are actually restaurants now that don't have sweet tea and give you dirty looks if you ask for it!

[Reg Evans]

52% Barely Dixie.....born in northern CA., but moved to Maryland until the age of 6 and then moved back to CA. Dad was born and raised in CA. and Ma was born and raised in CT.