"Yankee" and "Dixie" dialects

Barbara Need nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Wed Mar 3 17:22:55 UTC 2004


>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)

60% Dixie: 3 months (from birth to 3 mo) in Oak Ridge, TN, then
Cleveland (9 years), north of Boston (9 years), Philadelphia
(college), Milwaukee (2 years), Chicago (4 years), South Dakota (1
year), and Chicago (14+ years).

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics

(I would have liked a none-of-the above choice for some of them. B)



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