Re: Re: "Yankee" and "Dixie" dialects

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/3/04 11:50:41 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> 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)
>

I think they are totally wrong about SACK and BAG. I grew up in Iowa as a
SACK guy, and was surprised that in North Carolina the folks were all BAG people.