Dialect Survey Maps

[SamBones]

This is interesting...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...how-the-difference-in-the-way-americans-talk/

http://spark-1590165977.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/

 

[philhege]

Hey y'inz guys, look, it's a map!"

(Notice they missed that one.)

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[SamBones]

I thought it was interesting that even though I was born and raised in Southern California, my speech more aligns with roughly Arizona and Missouri, where my parents are from. It makes a lot of sense.

 

[Banner1971]

I'm not sure how much credence to give it, since it seems to have been drawn with a watercolor. Places you'd expect to see boundaries and skewed data, such as areas in the state of Nevada where the population is near zero, do not show up that way.

 

[johnherman]

Agree with SamBones regarding the influence of parents on your language. I grew up in central NJ, but didn't pick up a NY or Phila accent because my parents were from the Baltimore area. Nowadays, my accent is a hybrid of Baltimore, NJ, and the generic chatter of mass media.

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