Yankee Doodle in the Land of Dixie: an American English Dialect Quick Quiz

"Yankee or Dixie?"

This 20-point quiz tells you, we're told, how your habits of speech fit into the American English dialects. I come out as having a very slight Dixie accent - which is very odd for a man who grew up in Minnesota.

Just the same, it's fun. And, apparently, has some fairly solid research behind it.

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A little background:

"American English Dialects - A Quiz"
Virtual Scratchpad (April 14, 2008)

This blog post links to the quiz - and has a little extra information.

"American English -- The Yankee - Dixie quiz" (BlogCatalog discussion thread (started April 16, 2008))

This is where I found out about that pair of pages. Here's a quote from the start of the thread:

"Speakers of American English tend to use certain words and phrases that are characteristic of the region where they grew up or have lived for a long time. Someone developed a nifty little 20-item quiz that claims to assess regional American dialects. It's called the Yankee-Dixie quiz."