Pop or Soda?

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Doug Klippert — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:50:00 GMT

I apologize for the messy posting!
http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html#

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/

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Tommy Williams — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:29:00 GMT

Be sure you don't change any of your answers until *after* you compute your score. If you mess up, you need to clear and start over. It does make a difference in the score.

I ended up:

86% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

Most people say I don't have much, if any, Southern accent, but my word choices give me away.

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Dan Blake — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:28:00 GMT

Funny thing I grew up just south of Chicago and also got 41%. I guess Chicago is not really North and not really South.

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Louis Parks — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:36:00 GMT

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Hmm, I grew up (age 7 - 19) in New Jersey. Maybe the Mason-Dixon line is a bit further north than I had previously supposed.

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Jmayans — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:41:00 GMT

54% Dixie. Grew up in Kansas.

Pop or Soda?

Ladewig.com — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:12:00 GMT

Found this over on KC on Exchange and Outlook. I grew up in Wisconsin without realizing that we have an...

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Scott Ladewig — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:11:00 GMT

30% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

I'm originally from Wisconsin. I never knew that anyone outside of home used the term bubbler.

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KC Lemson — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 04:16:00 GMT

Oops, I hadn't noticed the instructions about not changing... but I redid it with the same answers, and got 40%.

I gotta say, pretty dumb code that can't handle changing answers pre-scoring =)

It was a fun walk through my past, to remember poking at "potato bugs" as a kid, going "garage saling", frosting cakes, etc =)

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Adam — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:42:00 GMT

66% Yankee and ive only been to the US 6 times ;)

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Nic Wise — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:03:00 GMT

73% (Dixie). I'm from New Zealand. Go figure :)

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Marc Orchant — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:08:00 GMT

Fun stuff KC! I took a degree in Linguistics (many moons ago) so I had someidea of the patterns they're testing for. Even so, when I answered honestly this was my score: "61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!"

What's interesting is that I spent my formative years in Delaware (straddling the Mason-Dixon line) and have lived in New Mexico for the last 24 years. Yet, according to the test I am a definitive Southerner.

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What the heck is he thinking » the quiz madness continues

The answer to "soda or pop"

Marc's Outlook on Productivity — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:53:00 GMT

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