53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

15 'Izzat 164 B.E. - Saturday, September 22, 2007 about 12:01 AM PDT

This is a fun quiz http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html. It is purely for entertainment and is based on the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey. The quiz is a good way to relax and have fun. I did encounter some words and phrases I've never heard before. I'm going to have to look those up and see what they mean.

Some of the words apparently refer to the night before Halloween and sound like they would be good titles for flash fiction or a short story. There were other words and phrases I'd heard before, which also sound like they would be good themes for poems or essays. I'll have to try the words to see what I can come up with. Click on the title of this entry and you will be redirected to the quiz.

Words to Use in Poems, Stories, or Essays

1. Devil's Night
2. Mischief Night
3. Cabbage Night
4. Rummage Sale
5. Yard Sale
6. Garage Sale
7. Tag Sale
8. Sub
9. Hoagie
10. Grinder
11. Hero
12. Crawfish
13. Crayfish
14. Crawdad
15. Sneakers
16. Tennis Shoes
17. Gymnshoes
18. Running Shoes
19. Frosting
20. Icing
21. Frontage Road
22. Access Road
23. Service Road
24. Feeder
25. Bag
26. Sack
27. Poke
28. Soda
29. Coke
30. Pop
31. Soft Drink
32. Brew Thru
33. Beverage Barn
34. Party Barn
35. Roly Poly
36. Pill Bug
37. Sow Bug
38. Potato Bug
39. TP'ing
40. Toilet Papering
41. Rolling
42. Papering
43. Water Fountain
44. Drinking Fountain
45. Bubbler

Words and phrases can lead to a number of different thoughts. When they are used in poems they make the poem interesting. They can be good starters when suffering from an attack of Writers' Block.