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Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Differently From Each Other
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#12What 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.
> "I say crayon as "crown""
From what I understand, this is common in Kansas. Are you (or at least one of your parents) from there?
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#13What 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.
i think it's that cray-ahn rhymes with ann, and cray-awn rhymes with lawn. i'm a cran guy myself.
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#14What 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.
My intuition would say the former is spoken faster and the latter with more of a drawl, leading awn to sound like lawn.
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#15They left the Pittsburgh "yinz" off question #7.
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#16They left the Pittsburgh "yinz" off question #7.
Some natives of Bloomington, Indiana do that one, too.
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#17What 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.
> "I say crayon as "crown"" From what I understand, this is common in Kansas. Are you (or at least one of your parents) from there?
You got me there!
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#18southerners talk funny
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#19The one about "What word(s) do you use to refer to a group of two or more people" is missing an option or two. I often use "you lot" or "you kids". To be fair, the latter is more of a joking thing, like parting from a group and saying "you kids be good" or whatever.
The "you lot" bit is, I'm pretty sure, something I picked up from watching British television. Most people in my neck of the woods say "you all" or "y'all". Some use "you'uns".
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#20What 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.
Seems the answer is to learn International Phonetic Alphabet.