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Yankee or Rebel? Take the test and see

Posted by tywebb on June 20, 2006 - 9:24 AM

If you always call it a "coke" -- even if it's Pepsi -- you're likely from the deep South, according to some dialect research done at Harvard.

To find out how telling your words are, you can take a "rebel or yankee" quiz here:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

Also interesting are the original research results, plotted on maps:

http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html

Submitted by kitty401k on June 29, 2006 - 11:28 AM.

I get picked at for sayin flyswater. Why is it so bad how we talk? Don't go around pickin on other people about there talk..