"Yankee" and "Dixie" dialects

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:22 AM -0600 3/3/04, Barbara Need 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)
>
>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)

I actually left some blank--selecting any of the choices would have
been a lie.  It's quite poorly designed, but then it was designed by
computer scientists, evidently, not by dialectologists.

Larry Horn, the born-again Southerner