You hail from where?

Are You a Yankee or a Rebel? – alphaDictionary * Southern Accent Test

Here’s a fun test you can take to see where you get some of your (American English) vocabulary and pronunciation. The test is billed as measuring your Southernness, but it’s more of an interactive compendium of selected U.S. regionalisms. Each question tells you where a particular usage or pronunciation comes from (so trying the different possible answers gives you info about the ones you don’t use). I get some of my vocabulary from growing up in Western Pennsylvania, some from my West Virginia family background (and hence a linguistic combination of Southern and Appalachian). While I picked up “y’all” when I moved to Texas, for the sake of the quiz I chose the 2nd person plural I grew up with, “you’uns” from the heart of Western Pennsylvania.