Dialect Survey Mapped!

Yeah, exciting headline, I know.  In the vein of Chris’s recent commonly mispronounced words entry, I bring you (courtesy PA), the Harvard University Dialect Survey.  It maps alternate pronunciations of words and where people say them, and questions such as the quintessential: ”What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?”.

Duh.  It’s a Coke.  As in, give me an Orange Coke. Pssht.

Posted Friday March 26, 2004 in Interesting by Derek Jones

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There’s a Yankee or Dixie? quiz available based off this survey.

I took it a while ago; I think I got something like 70% Dixie, which seemed odd since quite a number of my individual answers turned out to be—according to the survey—“yankee” answers. [shrug]

By Chris Curtis on March 26, 2004 at 10:34am link

Ditto that.  Almost everything I said was from the Great Lakes region (minus the Cheese Head’s “bubbler"), and I’m 67% Dixie.

Of course, it also said that two of the words I use are predominately Texan. wink

By Derek Jones on March 26, 2004 at 10:38am link

Pffff....
The Yankee/Dixie test is broken.

66% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

I am 100% central New York… Ivy League town, German/Pensylvania Dutch parentage.

66% Dixie my Union-ass wink

By Jose on March 26, 2004 at 10:58am link

Stop lying to yourself, Jose!  You know you’re one of us southern boys deep down inside.  C’mon… you know you want it!

By Chris Curtis on March 26, 2004 at 11:16am link

Yeeeee-HAAWWWWWW! Lemme far up the Genr’l Lee an we’ll go buzz ‘ol Boss Hog! :D

By Jose on March 26, 2004 at 01:08pm link

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