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Check your Dialect
Posted on February 26th, 2004 No commentsThe Yankee or Dixie quiz can detect your region of origin with fair accuracy.
I personally hail from the southeast, and I scored 80% Dixie, but I messed up on the questions about what you call athletic shoes and what you call it when you sell old stuff in your front yard. How did I learn to call them “garage sales” (southeast not favored, according to the quiz) and “sneakers” (stong northeastern bias)? Could it be the influence of…TV?
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