[kj] ot - for US gatherers - dixie test
Christof hamille
wessidetempest at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 16 11:41:49 EDT 2006
I am 38%. Definately a Midwesterner. Question 18 was a no-brainer for me
DEVIL'S NIGHT
Yee Haw
The North would win again
Chris in DEEEEeeeetroit
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>Subject: Re: [kj] ot - for US gatherers - dixie test
>Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:32:29 -0400
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>many of the hillbillies playing jigs and reels on their banjers and fiddles
>in the remote back hollers of the appalachians came from the british
>islands and used the music they knew there as aggregate for the sounds
>today known as bluegrass, fiddle and country music. maybe some of those
>linguistic dixieisms have similar roots in anglicisms as well?
>
>Jim Harper wrote:
>>Just out of curiosity, I took the test, filling in my appropriate
>>Anglicisms, and it said I was 20% Dixie. I guess southern England is
>>closer to the northern States...
>> Jim.
>>
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