Sherry Chandler

Dragging out Granny’s stash of Confederate dollars

I reckon.

Here it is Mayday, and everybody’s into language tests. Raven’s Shadow has up a link to a quiz called Are You a Rebel or a Yankee, a service of alphaDictionary.com. This test purports:

To find out how much Southern blood your speech shows, simply choose the words you use below, then press “Compute My Score!” at the end. The Alpha Dictionary will compute your score and tell you where you’re coming from: are you (all) speaking Bubbaese or are you(se) a Yankee Doodle Dandy? The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming.

And where she may be a lil ol Doodle bug, I reckon I’m a sowbug, a generic American term, but I might as well be Queen of the May because it didn’t change my score one bit. I came out 85% Dixie. And was asked “Do you still use Confederate money?” The part of Kentucky I’m from, up within spitting distance of the Mason/Dixon Line (otherwise known as the Ohio River), I doubt that Confederate money was ever much in circulation, but I do feel a certain affinity for Bubba, especially when he’s POTUS.

Wanna hear a podcast version of the term May Day? Click through to the link. You’ll see the podcast button in the upper righthand corner. Been a while since anybody asked me to transfer my fertility to their crops, though I thought there was more to it than merely wandering over the fields.

Go read Wanda’s post on this subject of regional language. As always, she waxes eloquent.

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