How Do You Speak? Yankee or Dixie?


	How Do You Speak? Yankee or Dixie?

Perkalicious11

10-17-2007 2:22 PM

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dialect, yankee, dixie, speech, accent, vocabulary

Perkalicious11 says:

I'm 38%: a definitive Yankee! haha

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10-21-2007 7:06 PM

kmcolo

40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

11-12-2007 6:05 PM

warptheory

Wow I'm 51% Dixie, not what I expected at all! I'm more hee-haw than I thought for a California boy...

11-12-2007 6:13 PM

bignosemousie

71% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

LOL.

11-12-2007 6:13 PM

bignosemousie

Doesn't everyone call it a feeder? LOL!

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