"Yankee" and "Dixie" dialects

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Mar 3 16:50:13 UTC 2004


At 7:56 AM -0500 3/3/04, Orin Hargraves wrote:
>Here's a link to a quiz that purports to tell you where yours belongs, based
>on the "Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey." Pretty good fun, even if not
>totally scientific:
>
>http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
>
>Orin Hargraves
>(49% yankee)

I'm skeptical.
Larry Horn
("54% dixie"--
grew up in NYC, lived on Long Island and in California, Wisconsin,
and New England)



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