LOL...are you Yankee or Dixie?

stormraiser · #41 Postby **stormraiser** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:41 pm

Hey, John, I grew up right out side of Warshinton, DC :lol:

Skywatch_NC · #42 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:44 pm

And in Boston...I've heard that it's pronounced (WAT-TA)...correct, j? :wink:

Eric

j · #43 Postby j » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:06 pm

that is correct Eric..is there any other way to pronounce it?

Skywatch_NC · #44 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:07 pm

j wrote:that is correct Eric..is there any other way to pronounce it?

Nope, guess not...hehe

Bestofour · #45 Postby **Bestofour** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:15 pm

88% Dixie here in NC, ya'll.

ColdFront77 · #46 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:52 pm

"Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd!"

weatherlover427 · #47 Postby **weatherlover427** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:00 am

64% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Yay! Woohoo!

j · #48 Postby j » Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:05 am

This test is biased. If you check all the answers, many of them don't even have a "Yankee" choice, yet almost all of them have a "Dixie" choice.

Written by a Southerner no doubt.

southerngale · #49 Postby **southerngale** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:36 am

Ok, who else calls it a feeder road? I was surprised to see "local use in Houston" as part of the result. I thought feeder road was a common word used by everyone. 8-)

hehe

GalvestonDuck · #50 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:58 am

southerngale wrote:Ok, who else calls it a feeder road? I was surprised to see "local use in Houston" as part of the result. I thought feeder road was a common word used by everyone. hehe

I still can't get used to feeder roads. They don't use them in KY. Most of the ramps to get off interstates are in a clover-leaf pattern or occasionally, just an off-ramp. But that whole "long road running parallel to the interstate" concept was new to me when I moved here. I couldn't get used to having to pull off onto the feeder road long before I got to a road that I wanted to access. For example, if I'm on the Gulf Freeway and I see NASA Rd. 1, I have to see it long before I get there and I have to exit onto the feeder road in order to get off the GF and onto NASA. But in KY, there would be a "deceleration lane" (how it is phrased in the Driver's Ed courses) after you go under the overpass. A driver would take that lane which would become the ramp that leads off the freeway and circles around, onto the road he or she is accessing. The driver would slow their speed as they take the ramp and get to the speed of the lesser road.

I still have to drive out of my way sometimes if I find a place where I need to go, but I miss getting to it because the exit onto the feeder road was so far back. So I have to take the next exit, get to the U-turn, head the wrong way on the feeder going in the opposite direction, get to another U-turn, and go back again, but this time on the feeder so I can get to the store, mall, movies, or whatever I'm trying to get to.

But hey, it's Texas! I'll take the humidity, hurricanes, mosquitos, and feeder road hassles of KY any day!

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