90% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? It messes up your score if you change your answers during the test. I was 60% at first and then I took it again giving the same answers and scored 90%.
Why are us Californians around 50% Dixie? It seems like on most of my individual answers it said either nationwide of Great Lakes and only the Coke answer was Southern Specific.
68% Dixie. I always called it wrapping someone's house I pronounce caramel like this - care-a-mel I call soft drinks by their specific brand name (Sprite, Coke, Dr. Pepper) although I don't drink any cola-flavored drinks.
67% Dixie. I had parents who were real sticklers for pronunciation so I tend to not have much of a southern accent. But, who else here calls the bugs that roll up into a ball when you touch them "Doodle Bugs." Was that just me???
I called them doodle bugs when I was little, say 4-5-6 years old. Then I started calling them rolly pollys around 8-9-10 years old. Now I just call them damn bugs.
49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. What can I say #7 You Guys and #17wrapping a house are phrases I go by that weren't listed.
67% Dixie. I, too, was shocked about how specific the results were about the term "feeder" and Houston. Now I know why I always got funny looks when I used that word when giving driving directions to non-Texans my whole life.
77% Dixie...frontage road used to always look funny to me in other cities, didn't know feeder was that local either. Wrapping not tp.
One phrase that was not asked about at all is "fixing to", as in "I'm fixing to post something on the board." Anyone know the territory for that one?
it seems just about everybody, including me, uses the term "wrapping." how did it not make the list? though i will say looking over the 4 choices, i couldn't remember wrapping. i knew i didn't call it any of those and that my phrase was only one word, but i couldn't remember wrapping. "fixin' to" definitely needed to make it on their. i wanna say i saw it on something as mostly a Texas thing. i call the bus roly poly and doodle bug but roly poly is probably the one i use more. and like subtomic i say "care-a-mel" not car-a-mel though really it's probably even a little different and like "care-a-mul." and what did they want on the yard/garage/rummage sale question? if it was actually on someone's yard (which i've never seen), i guess i would call it a yard sale but if they just mean anytime people are selling a lot of crap at their house i would instinctively think of it as a garage sale.
Up here in the north, most people have garages in back behind their houses. So when they sell their crap they put it in the yard, thus yard sale. It's a yankee thing.
Holy f***. I got 92% (Dixie). I gotta get out of NY. Everytime I tell someone I'm originally from Texas, the first words out of their mouth is, "But you don't have an accent!" It's strange. My mom and dad don't have Southern drawls, despite growing up in Ft. Worth and Shreveport, respectively. Neither do my siblings. I guess my family is just "accent-proof." *shrug* Once, at college, I caught myself saying "lew-ong" (long), like a Long Islander says it (think Mike Myer's "Coffee Talk" from SNL). I wanted to kill myself immediately. Northeast accents irritate me to no end. (Which is kind of hypocritical, since my wife has a teeny little Jersey accent when she says certain words.)
I've lived in Texas practically all my life, but when I first moved to the Metroplex, people would ask where I grew up because I didn't have a Texas accent. And I've never in my life used the terms "Y'all" or "fixin' to", though both are common even in the Panhandle. I don't know why my family didn't pick that up (neither my mother nor my father use those terms, either. My father grew up in Houston and my mother grew up in Newport, Arkansas).
