OT: American pronunciation by region - is there a footbaw connection?
These are cool. After doing some recruiting maps for fun it was interesting how these match up for some pronunciations. Note just the link here... no actual comparisons to recruiting...
Just OT fun... enjoy.
Yeah, they needed an "expressway" option.
Grew up in NC. In a restaurant, you'd order a Coke to drink and the waitress would ask "What Kind?", and then you would specify a "Sprite", or "Diet Coke", or "Root Beer". Looking at those linguistic maps was interesting for me, having grownup in NC to yankee parents and then living in Michigan for 25 years. My pronounciation is all over the map. :)
"I'd like a Budweiser"
"What kind?"
"Busch Light, please"
I've lived in the south for ten years and never once have I had someone ask me "what kind" when I ordered a coke.
For a number of years he was the color guy on ABC college football broadcasts, and he'd say things like "they stick to they game plan." I'd never heard such a butchering of pronounciation and grammar on TV that wasn't in a movie.
In NY/NJ, hero or sub are interchangeable. Stil have no idea why some places in CT call it a "grinder" and in Westchester County, NY they call it a "wedge"
So do any of you guys want a pop?
If you go (HERE), you can actually see all 122 maps and get distributions from the survey for select cities, including Ann Arbor.
In fact, in doing this, I sort of discovered why - being raised near Ann Arbor - I would use "soda" and "pop" somewhat interchangably, as the spilit is 23.7% for "soda" and 67.8% for "pop".
Interestingly but maybe not surprisingly, in response to the question "What is 'The City'"?, a fair number of respondents from Ann Arbor say that they are referring to New York City.
It's interesting to look at the distributions for the individual survey cities - I am sure most people here could find something near where they grew up.
Never heard of it. We call it the green belt in our house.
I would have liked to see a few others including:
- lollipops vs. suckers
- standing on line vs. in line
- grilling vs. barbecuing (i.e., what is it called when you have people over to cook burgers outside). Would love to see where the dividing line falls for the vocal barbecue nuts who have a cow when you call grilling, barbecuing
In my experience, lollipops are the big circular multi-colored things, while suckers are the wimpy little spherical things.
"Row-ads?" People say that?
It's odd that only people in Michigan refer to the night before Halloween as Devil's Night.
mulitple places, this is fascinating to see where biggest impact came from, y'all.
I live on the Michigan-Ohio border (like Toledo area) and I've never heard anything but "cran."
I was wondering about that one. In my experience it's always been "cran," or maybe "cray-un."
Are there really large portions of the country that say "cray-awn" or "cray-ahn"? I guess I could see Lousiana doing that (with the French influence there) but I can't believe most of the country does that.
Some say p’tay-toh; some say p’tah-toh. But Dan Quayle spells it "potatoe."