You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country

But you can't take the country out of the.... Oh fuck it that doesn't apply to me anyway, seeing as how I grew up in a suburb and my parents are from Indiana and Ohio.

But I just took this quiz that asks you questions about how you pronounce words and what you call certain things (like the whole Coke vs. pop vs. soda controversey).

Click here to take the "Yankee or Dixie" quiz.

So I figured my dialect would place me right in the middle of the Blue Grey divide, since I have been living or going to college in the heartland. So I was very surprised when I came up with a score of 72% Dixie. Who knew I was such a cracker?

I think I must have really scored high on the Dixie scale when I said I call carbonated beverages "Coke" instead of "pop" (although I have been using the term "pop" more and more) and still use the term "ya'll." But I am about as Dixie as Ted Kenndedy, or George "I Went To Andover and Yale" Bush, for that matter.



Image from The E Pupluribus Unum Project


And as an aside, I think the strangest thing from when I first began college was that grocery stores would actually use the term "pop" in their ads. Now it seems normal.

Ya'll come back. I'm fixin' to write another post in two shakes.