Yesterday for wrestling practice I wore my Canadian shirt. It says “Montreal Canada” on it. I have no idea where I got this shirt. Did I get it at a thrift store? Did somebody leave it behind in a hotel room I stayed in? Did it used to be Lloyd’s?
I distinctly remember wearing it in the Caribbean and someone seeing me with it on and asking me if I was from Canada. I said “Ya, you hoser. Why are ya asking me aboot it?” Hehe… Actually, I said no. So this is an instant Canadian disguise? Put on this shirt and I’m from Canada? Cool.
Except none of the wrestling boys asked me if I was from Canada.
Oh, Brad, have you really forgotten? You are from Canada.
HA!
Well, one thing’s for sure…you must have acquired this shirt more than 3 years ago…and it’s a mighty fine looking shirt I might add.
And I always wondered why, if you were born & raised in Tennessee, you don’t have a titch of a southern drawl??? Now I know. You’re Canandian.
But try this to be sure: (I’m Yankee…only 38%Dixie)
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html
57% Dixie
So do you have a southern twang & I just don’t notice it?
Anybody?
No, Peggy. Brad’s been edjamakated in Missour-ah ‘member?
Well I am somewhere between 76% and 86%, probably more towards 76%. The Carbonated beverage question through me off. The first word to come to me without seeing the answers was Coke, but I use Pop much more. There is a 10% swing between these two?
Sorry I forgot add the word dixie after the percentages.
Normally it would be John’s responsibility, but in his absence I should point out that that’s Geddy Lee of the Canadian power trio RUSH singing the vocals for Bob & Doug.
No… really? (I’m still very gullible…)
It says so on Wikipedia, so you know it’s true.
HA! Thank you for the logic I use with my students whenever they try to cite Wikipedia as a “reliable” source for data.
I’m 65% Dixie. I actually thought I might be more…but apparently living in the Great Plains is startig to wear off…
I used to call all carbonated beverages Coke. Until I went to high school in Missouri and everyone made fun of me…
I’m 38% Dixie. I found it interesting that so many of my answers were attributed to the Michigan area – I only lived there until I was 5, but I guess it had a lasting affect on me.
You could have something there, Doctor. My mother was from Germany but came over to these shores when she was 7 years old – no German accent; rather flat, “accentless” English instead. The same school teacher was
stuck blessed with me for 3 1/2 of my 6 years of elementary school, and she was not a Balt-a-moron, if you catch my drift. So indeed, I think my own speech patterns were formed fairly early by non-natives. Since then, I’ve lived in “Chi-caah-go” and St. Louis “Missour-ah” before returning home, and I say neither “Pop” for carbonated beverages nor “harse” for horse. God bless those lingual roots, eh?Dnag. You know how technology hates me – in your heads, please unstrike everything after “stuck”.