Wednesday, September 12, 2007

I'm a rebel


I was thinking today about southern accents. I'm from Texas, but in the past couple of years I noticed I don't have much of an accent anymore. However, people still comment occasionally on the words I use. So I found this quiz online, called "Are you a Yankee or a rebel?" It was really cool because it really had more to do with the vocabulary used in different areas of the country, mostly dealing with the southern and New England areas. I like seeing how they had a question asking what I call soda. In Texas, everything, and I mean everything, is called Coke. If you're at a resaurant, you'll order a coke, and thats when the waiter will ask you what kind and you reply with diet coke or rootbeer or whatever. And I still get laughed at sometimes for calling "crayfish" crawdads. I'm probably also the only person with an "ant." I took the quiz and ended up with 100% Dixie, so now I know even though I don't have a strong Texan accent any more, I still use a lot of the words I learned there.




1 comment:

Jacklyn said...

I really liked this. I took the quiz and got 20% Dixie. I guess I don't belong in the south!