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This dialect map covers all of North America's English accents
Rick Aschmann, a professional linguist, has created a comprehensive analysis of "North American English Dialects, Based on ...
Odds are you’ve noticed the spate of eerily accurate American-dialect quizzes making the rounds online. The questionnaires, which draw on data from the Harvard Dialect Survey to pinpoint the ...
The people who put together those dialect maps on how people speak across the US, have taken those maps and use them to predict where you are from. My wife and I gave it a whirl and it seems like it ...
Ah, ‘Merica. Land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where proper dialects go their separate ways. Let’s face it, in a country this big, it was bound to happen. Nevertheless, it jars us ...
Imagine looking at a map of the United States that is divided not into states but into dialects — a map that doesn’t tell you what a state’s capital is, but how a region’s residents pronounce their ...
Everyone’s favorite timewaster of the past couple of days has been the New York Times’ online dialect map. Answer 25 questions and it will tell you where you grew up. My results were disappointingly ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Despite the fact that most of America speaks one language, there are distinctive sayings that are nearly incomprehensible to people from different ...
Finally, a map that explains the complex reasons you're probably not pronouncing "chowder" right, and why we should all start saying "y'all." The below map, created by Long Island University reference ...
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