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If you look at the concentration of blue in the Bay Area, you can see that they need to add a city to "What is 'the City'?": http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest... Hint : It's not San José.
You know, I'm a little surprised that Socal doesn't have a similar concentration around LA.
I'd like to see something similar for children's songs. By "children's songs" I don't mean songs adults sing for children, but rather the songs children sing among themselves. There are many variations of these songs, and it would be interesting to see how they vary regionally.
For instance, when I was a kid, we had:
He's Popeye the sailor man
He lives in a garbage can
*He eats all the worms
*And spits out the germs
He's Popeye the sailor man
He pees like a fountain
And poops out a mountain
They turned on the gas
And it burned off my ass
He catches all the lizards
and eats all their gizzards
He sleeps with his granny
And tickles her fanny
He likes to go swimmin'
With bare naked women
There are also variants in things like "eeny meeny miny moe". Every parent in my neighborhood taught the next part as "catch a tiger by the toe", but every kid said (when out of earshot of adults) "catch a nigger by the toe". Where did that come from? I can't recall any adults using that word in my California suburban neighborhood and have no idea where we kids got that for eeny meeny miny moe. I suspect we got it by whatever mysterious mechanism we got our versions of songs.
(Speaking of eeny meeny miny moe, I'm guessing that I'm not the only one here who figured out ahead of time the rudiments of modular arithmetic, and used that to my advantage whenever I saw that an eeny meeny miny moe was going to take place...anyone else want to admit to massively cheating at eeny meeny miny moe?)
Another thing about children's songs. The lyrics are sometimes more sophisticated than you would expect from children of the ages that sing the songs. Who writes these songs?
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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".
Don/dawn sound like the "a" in father for me. Down sounds like the "ou" in "Ouch!"
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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 liste…
Not to put words in his mouth but, I think the GP was referring to the information density rather than the information quality itself. Likely as the comparison he was making was to the presentation quality. I think you are both capable of being correct... but then I must think that because I agree with both of you :)
Oh those Cajuns causing trouble, hello from The Maritimes. I would say crayfish just as it's spelled. I have no idea what it is in Acadian French I'm not French but I know a lot of Acadian people. It would be funny if the name came from little lobster, maybe "petite homard"? Not even close to crayfish.
It's from the Old French crevis or modern French écrevisse, having something to do with crabs, not lobsters. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=crayfish http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crayfish#Etymology For what it's worth, it is also spelled, not just pronounced, "crawfish" in Texas and Louisiana.
The French from France asked Terry when he left and what village he was from Terry kept trying to tell them that he never was from France he had always lived here in the Maritimes they didn't believe him they thought he left France maybe ten years ago.