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[vakkotaur]

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm (javascript required, bah) uses the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey to rate how Northern or Southern you are, or at least how your speech is. I got "34% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee" where the percentage is a rating of southernness.

My individual results tended to either be common throughout the U.S. or more common in the (western) Great Lakes region, which is no surprise.

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[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Huh! I'm borderline Dixie and Yankee (a few answers for things which were both: both Runners and Sneakers for gym shoes, for example). I don't know if I should be surprised or not... I have a SLIGHT Newfie accent on some words, but that don't make me southern at ALL. Maybe it's just a Canadian thing.