My score -> 46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
COuld someone please tell me if that's good or bad.
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Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.I think I've forgotten this before.
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My score -> 46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
COuld someone please tell me if that's good or bad.
Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.I think I've forgotten this before.
48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Gooser: a low score indicates Yankee, a high one indicates Dixie. Kind of a confusing method to use percentages like this.
Grenage: A common prank. New toilet paper is recommended.
One that I got me was 5, "route". Anyone else pronounce it differently depending on whether it's used as a noun or a verb? "I'll take the shortest route" (toot) or "I'll route the package via Nevada" (clout).
Gooser: a low score indicates Yankee, a high one indicates Dixie. Kind of a confusing method to use percentages like this.
Grenage: A common prank. New toilet paper is recommended.
One that I got me was 5, "route". Anyone else pronounce it differently depending on whether it's used as a noun or a verb? "I'll take the shortest route" (toot) or "I'll route the package via Nevada" (clout).
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lgarner - I route differently depending on circumstance just as you denoted...
So MrMilson If you are all toots, then is the power tool you use to put nice edges on cabinetry called a "rooter"?
Or does it take on the 'ow' sound of "cow" and become a "rowter"?
So MrMilson If you are all toots, then is the power tool you use to put nice edges on cabinetry called a "rooter"?
Or does it take on the 'ow' sound of "cow" and become a "rowter"?
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lgarner,
I'm with you on route.
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I'm a route'n-toot'n router of routers.
(I'm a rootin'-toot'n rooter of rowters.)
Route (Root) 66, but I had a paper route (rowt) when I was a kid.
Here's one: What word, starts with su* and is used to describe a grouping of bedroom furniture? Both the spelling, and the pronunciation seem to differ from place to place.
--Gooser
SilentAiche
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79% (strong Dixie). No surprise (family's been in NC since 1759). We came down from Virginia. Fella's name was Chambers SilentAiche.
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50% (Chameleon, lol) for first test
41% (barely Yankee) for advanced test
Guess that reflects the fact that the northern town I was born in was transplanted lock, stock, and barrel from the South in 1923, with around 10,000 or so people making the move. And except for a few very brief interludes I have lived within 50 miles of that town ever since.
And horror of horrors, we even had a section of town that we referred to AT THAT TIME as 'colored town' or 'nigger town.' That was a section of town, containing two blocks, where all of the blacks lived, and whites were not welcome at all. It was an island within the town surrounded on all sides with 3 blocks of empty fields. Today those fields are covered with houses and apartments (flats to you Brits) and blacks can and do live anywhere in town.
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53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. (for the record).
I don't think TP'ing, or whatever else it is called, will ever catch on in the UK. Imagine the mess if it rained!! (which it frequently does around that time of year - in fact, any time of year!).
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Reckless words pierce like a sword,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing (Solomon)
I don't think TP'ing, or whatever else it is called, will ever catch on in the UK. Imagine the mess if it rained!! (which it frequently does around that time of year - in fact, any time of year!).
Tony
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Reckless words pierce like a sword,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing (Solomon)
He he 50% Yankee,
but I'm from the UK as well, in fact I was getting answers all over the place (great lakes seemed to come up quite a bit)
These are my answers (where none of the listed ones fitted) for the following
4. I would spell this Pyjamas the second syllable is 'Jar'
7: 'You guys', but only if I knew them.
9: 'Baguette or 'A Big sarnie' (I come from the north of England this would be different elsewhere in the UK.
11: 'Trainers'
20: These are Woodlice.
As for Question 17 (throwing toilet paper over a house!!!)
I don't understand this one at all.
Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.
but I'm from the UK as well, in fact I was getting answers all over the place (great lakes seemed to come up quite a bit)
These are my answers (where none of the listed ones fitted) for the following
4. I would spell this Pyjamas the second syllable is 'Jar'
7: 'You guys', but only if I knew them.
9: 'Baguette or 'A Big sarnie' (I come from the north of England this would be different elsewhere in the UK.
11: 'Trainers'
20: These are Woodlice.
As for Question 17 (throwing toilet paper over a house!!!)
I don't understand this one at all.
Steve: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.
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Here is a picture of a classic indoor TP prank. Scroll most of the way down the page.
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Very amusing & revealing, especially #11.
My girl-friend, originally from Baltimore, refers to gym shoes as "tennis shoes" while I, lifelong resident of the Northeast, call them "sneakers".
Sneakers are what the TV ads and magazine ads have been selling me for as long as I can recall and I'm sure Shaq doesn't turn to the guy in the next locker and tell him about his lucrative "tennis shoe" endorsement deal.
Does this indicate that Nike, Adidas, and others change their advertising to suit regional preferences?
My girl-friend, originally from Baltimore, refers to gym shoes as "tennis shoes" while I, lifelong resident of the Northeast, call them "sneakers".
Sneakers are what the TV ads and magazine ads have been selling me for as long as I can recall and I'm sure Shaq doesn't turn to the guy in the next locker and tell him about his lucrative "tennis shoe" endorsement deal.
Does this indicate that Nike, Adidas, and others change their advertising to suit regional preferences?
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That, SGGaunt, is because those of us who have lived in England know how 'dear' (Yanks, read: 'expensive') a roll of TP can be in the UK (where there is virtually no domestic wood-pulp-processing industry). In the UK, if someone was extravagant enough to roll/paper/TP a house, we would opt for the our favourite economy wipe roll, "Izal".sggaunt said:
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Gooser, over here in the UK, tenners is short for ten pound notes. I guess your tenners cost a few tenners ;-).
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Reckless words pierce like a sword,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing (Solomon)
I neither speak, nor understand the Queen's English.
;-)
We have a regional one--where I come from and I'm not sure whether it is used anywhere else. The word is pank. The definition would be something like 'pack' (maybe). As in, "We panked down all the snow in the yard so that we could play football." Or, "Don't pank the snow in the walk, it'll make it too hard to shovel." Anyone else ever hear this word? If so, where?
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