[kj] ot - for US gatherers - dixie test

[Christof hamille]

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


>From: fluw <fluwdot at earthlink.net>
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>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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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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