Obviously, the first test was devised in Dixie! Don't hear that term much
anymore. On the second test I think I came closer to the truth. That said,
what I'm fixin' to do now is give y'all my updated results.
45% Dixie
35% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
(I think "fixin'" is just an absolute hoot. Means getting ready to or
preparing to do something, and I use it all of the time, part of my
Piedmont, Southside VA upbringing.) Another really funny term around
Southside Va, Northeastern NC is "been bein'". As in "It ain't as cold now
as it's been bein'."
By the way, of you've never really heard the entrenched locals of Charleston
SC, they have a dictionary for translating for the rest of us. For instance
the word boat is a two syllable word that rhymes with poet.
Bob Johnson
BJ8
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