Rebel-Yankee on Charleston, SC News Tonight
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Rebel-Yankee on Charleston, SC News Tonight
Live 5 news [Charleston, SC] went out and found out how people in Charleston did on the alphaDictionary Rebel (Dixie)-Yankee test. The results might surprise you. Watch the video to see how they did on the test. You might also be surprised to find out how Live 5 News' own Amanda Fitzpatrick and Rob Youngblood scored. [The newscast was taken down.]
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I thought she was saying "Dixan" as an adjectival form of "Dixie" (which in turn is taken from Mason and Dixon, the surveyors of Mason and Dixon's Line, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania and between Maryland and Delaware). I'd never heard before either, but then, I'm not from that far south. However, if you study the geography of the Civil War, you'll see why there was no way on God's green Earth that the North was about to let Maryland secede.Did anyone else notice that Miss Newscaster kept referring to "Dixen" instead of "Dixie"? Was that just her mispronunciation? I've never heard anyone in all my life say Dixen. And she is supposedly from the South!
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That's what I initially thought. She used it nearly every time. Just thought it sounded funny since in everything I've ever read pertaining to Dixie or anyone I've ever known from across the South, not once have I seen or heard it referred to as such.I thought she was saying "Dixan" as an adjectival form of "Dixie"
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Was it something like Dixie-an, i.e. an adjective? The video link doesn't seem to workDid anyone else notice that Miss Newscaster kept referring to "Dixen" instead of "Dixie"? Was that just her mispronunciation? I've never heard anyone in all my life say Dixen. And she is supposedly from the South!
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Maybe she was just hoping to get Christmas in July by saying "Dixen". Maybe It would have worked if she had asked for the one with the red nose instead.Did anyone else notice that Miss Newscaster kept referring to "Dixen" instead of "Dixie"? Was that just her mispronunciation? I've never heard anyone in all my life say Dixen. And she is supposedly from the South!
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Maybe she was just hoping to get Christmas in July by saying "Dixen". Maybe It would have worked if she had asked for the one with the red nose instead.BTW: I couldn't get the link to work either.
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No, she wasn't saying Dixie-an. It was cleary Dixen. I thought at any moment that her co-anchor would correct her but he never did. Maybe off the air.
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I thought she did a fair job with the footage of "Dixon" speech. Too bad they didn't give her any examples of "Mason" for comparison. {Rimshot}
I enjoyed the link, though; thanks for posting it, Dr. Goodword. This promotion may net some screaming linguistic groupies, yet. Hopefully, they won't casually misuse adverbs...
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I enjoyed the link, though; thanks for posting it, Dr. Goodword. This promotion may net some screaming linguistic groupies, yet. Hopefully, they won't casually misuse adverbs...
-gailr
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