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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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 Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:48:03 AM
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| Speaking of the way you say things.... |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:51:21 AM
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We're smart like that ;), and I'm game. I'm going to go take the dixie/yankee quiz though, because I'm really curious!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:51:31 AM
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So I'll continue it here.
My husband is from New York. I am from the South. He has lived here for quite some time now. And, it still cracks me up to hear him speak Southern. It is so cute. It has developed over the years from living in the South. He may be more Southern now than New Yorker. Mmmmmm, I'll have to think about that.
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:52:35 AM
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| Oh yes, Jonni. I'd love to see that quiz too. I just hated to see it THERE in THAT thread. |
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chicken necker
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherry
Eastern Shore
Maryland
USA
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chicken necker
True Blue Farmgirl
509 Posts
Sherry
Eastern Shore
Maryland
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:56:31 AM
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Country lawyer...we keep going back and forth! Bump
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ~anon |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:56:41 AM
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Here's my score!
69% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
I ended up dixie, but I sure had a lot of "Vermont and Northeast" influences in my speech. I've lived in Kentucky,Michigan, Delaware, NYC, and England...so....I dunno, I'm a mutt :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
Edited by - KYgurlsrbest on Feb 06 2008 06:57:01 AM |
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:58:01 AM
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THANKS Sherry! I did what I didn't want to do a second ago. Bumped that up again. So here I am again.
I'll tell you this while I'm here.
I cooked dinner for one of my husband's business associates from New Orleans. He had the most delightful accent. I tried a new dessert out from a special New Orleans recipe book, River Road. I served it and said I hoped it was "fittin' to eat." He had no idea what I said or what I was talking about. I wrote down the word for him and he was still utterly blank. And, by the way, it was. It was very fittin' to eat! |
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wannabecountrybumpkin
True Blue Farmgirl
117 Posts
Christy
Bristow
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 07:02:05 AM
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I'm from NY myself, moved to the south and married a Southerner. I pretty much lost my NY accent and picked up a southern one. I still love my NY heritage but I really love being a convert to the southern way of life.
Christy
Farmgirl Sister #139
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Hoosier Farmer
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 07:05:16 AM
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Living in England was kindof interesting--you think of british people as having british accents, but in London alone, there are over 100 different dialects. When I told London friends I was heading down to Cornwall to work on a farm, they asked if I had a translation book handy--I wasn't sure what they meant, but BOY HOWDY did the accent change. It was like leaving Boston and going directly to rural Alabama or Mississippi--it's very rural in parts, the largest town being Exeter, and Cornwall is SOUTH, and they definitely have a heavier accented speech. Largely descended from Romans and Spaniards, so you get such a neat mix of people, also, like "black Irish" with the spanish genetics. "True cornishman" I've met are usually auburn or brown haired, ruddy skinned and brawny. Agrarians who can date their farms and heritage back centuries.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 07:15:54 AM
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Well, my thought is that folks who came to Washington before you Marybeth, probably set the president for your "language" so to speak...many of them came from the Midwest during the pioneer rush and after....large population migration before WWI as well.
Ok...now I'm REALLY showing my nerdy stripes :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 08:30:40 AM
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i came in at 71% DIXIE .. which doesn't surprize me for a D.C. gurl .. cuz' my momma and my poppa and all their kin-folk are from the south .. i was raised in the big Eastern City of D.C. .. and it's surrounding Maryland and Virginia .. and i've lived in Florida (one year) and several years in the mountains of Colorado ... so i believe my language influences are reflected by all but is brightly colored by my southern family.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 09:13:45 AM
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My Score:
50% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
ROFL! I have NEVER been down south! The closest I have been is Washinton DC!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Firemama
True Blue Farmgirl
1731 Posts
Amanda
Medical Lake
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 09:27:01 AM
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65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!
That is my score ,lol. And I have never been anywhere!
Mama to 2
I am who I am
FarmGirl# 20
http://myfarmdreams.blogspot.com/
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 09:32:13 AM
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| I came in at 73%, born and bred in ol Virginny!! So naturally I also live in the South of France! Au revoir ya'll! |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 09:50:23 AM
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61% Dixie- which is hilarious. I was born in CT and raised by very proper New Englanders, teaching me to annuciate each and every syllabul. I have lived in 10 different states, so I think I am a nice mix but Texas is now my home and yee haw, I love being a Southern gal!!
Cheers,
Heather
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jessica
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 10:02:53 AM
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Haha - my score:
100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
Yep I'm a southern girl that's for sure!
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Farmgirl Sisterhood #137
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 10:08:33 AM
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Wow Jessica- Maybe I could learn from you....
Cheers,
Heather
FARMGIRL #90 |
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createmyworld
True Blue Farmgirl
295 Posts
Beth
Akron
PA
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 10:08:46 AM
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| I got 54% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.... and I'm a Eastern Pennsylvania dutch girl.... I think most of my answers were either northeastern or common through most of US though... |
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
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Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
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JessieMae
True Blue Farmgirl
702 Posts
Jessie
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
702 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 11:26:09 AM
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| 45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. I think this test is the bunk. I've lived in Michigan, northern Ohio, and eastern Pennsylvania but never spent more than a few summers of my youth "down south," and then my strong Great Lakes accent made me stick out like a sore thumb. One summer I worked at a Hardee's at the drive-thru window, and when I gave my little speech - "Thank you for stopping at Hardees. Would you like to try a 'Boss' combo meal today?" - I'd get this long pause...customers thought my plain Midwestern accent was a recorded message! (Of course, to me, "down south" is the Bootheel of Missouri. "Genuine" Southerners usually call Missouri the Midwest.) |
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Jeanna
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeanna
Franklin
NC
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:10:18 PM
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Well I am definately dixie--79%. I was born and raised right here.
Jeanna
Farmgirl Sister #41
If both of our troubles were hung on a line--You would take yours and I would take mine. |
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:49:36 PM
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| I got 79% too. But I should have gotten 100%! Never lived anywhere else! |
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jessica
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:53:46 PM
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Heather - I was born and raised in the south and I guess you could say I'm a southern belle. I give my parents that credit for my raising.
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Farmgirl Sisterhood #137
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
http://bluegrassprincess.blogspot.com/ |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 1:04:03 PM
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I got 51% Yankee - I had the same question as you Marybeth - I've lived in the Northwest all my life and my answers kept coming up Great Lakes area. Maybe they don't have a category for the NW. I had some answers, I think, that were throwbacks to my grandparents who came from WV. I picked up some of their terms for things when I was little. I love the diversity in language in this country.
Farmgirl Sister #98
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