Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
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Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
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#2This interesting set of maps is an example of how presentation can triumph over content. The pretty maps total to not a huge amount of information on dialect differences in the United States, a topic that has been posted about here on HN before, but their sheer prettiness prompted me to share the link to my Facebook wall, whereupon Facebook showed me on my home page that five of my other friends have already shared the same link. It's often easier for pretty pictures to go viral than more informative paragraphs of text.
The underlying survey that gathered the data
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/
is, I think, something we have also discussed before here on HN. The link from the survey home page that is supposed to lead to the faculty webpage of the principal investigator appears to be a dead link. He is now at a new university,
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal/staff/bv230/
still working on linguistics research.
Re: Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
#3What is the difference between "cray-ahn" and "cray-awn"?
Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don".
Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
Re: Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
#4What is the difference between "cray-ahn" and "cray-awn"? Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don". Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
Dawn and don are the same for me, too.
I pronounce crayon as "cray'n" -- pretty much exactly as you could pronounce "prayin'"
Re: Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
#5This interesting set of maps is an example of how presentation can triumph over content. The pretty maps total to not a huge amount of information on dialect differences in the United States, a topic that has been posted about here on HN before, but their sheer prettiness prompted me to share the link to my Facebook wall, whereupon Facebook showed me on my home page that five of my other friends have already shared t…
I disagree about the quality of the information presented herein. As someone whose day job involves recording sound for film (necessarily including lots of dialog) and who is not American, regionalisms in accents are both challenging and fascinating for me, and a frequent topic of discussion between myself and the actors I work with. On smaller films there isn't usually the budget for a dialog coach and since I listen to people for a living that aspect of production often falls in my lap.
I found these maps extremely informative and and they helped to clarify some perplexing edge cases (eg people from Missouri sound southern in general, but on some words they exhibit marked differences from their near neighbors).
Re: Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
#6What is the difference between "cray-ahn" and "cray-awn"? Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don". Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
It would help if you mentioned where you're from, and where your parents are from.
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#7#21: What do you call a drive-through liquor store?
I'm in Arkansas, and I've always heard these called "Baptist Windows".
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#8southerners talk funny
Re: Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
#9What is the difference between "cray-ahn" and "cray-awn"? Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don". Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
Dawn and don are the same for me, too. I pronounce crayon as "cray'n" -- pretty much exactly as you could pronounce "prayin'"
What about "down" then ?
As in "Don said dawn gets him down".
Re: Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
#10http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest...
I have never known anyone to use the third phrase.