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22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other

irishScott

irishScott

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http://www.businessinsider.com/22-m...t-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1

Lot of WTF moments here. Especially this one (note Alabama and Mississippi):

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A little insight there, but also a lot of 'this has been beaten to death' and 'in whose LSD coma were these options conceived.' It doesn't help that the pronunciations are written by someone without a firm grasp of the English language, leading me to question why my area appears to be entirely unique.


Observed flaws: I say caramel properly. Map shows TN says it properly. They do not; they say 'carmuhl'.

People who say 'Yall' generally do not use it exclusively and can still be heard saying 'you all' or 'you guys.' And retards who say 'yousZZZ guysZZZ' are not on the map.

'Been' is pronounced like the name 'Ben.' 'Bin' is for hicks who also say 'git.'

In TN, I have never heard the cited 'cray-on' in my freaking life. It's not the other multi-syllable option, either. It's 'cra-on,' like the name 'Stan' with the last letter truncated. Or slurred into 'cran.'

People who say mayonnaise with three syllables can go back to England, you limey fucks.

'Pi-con' for fuck's sake. If there's 'pee' in that word, punch yourself.

There is no such thing as a roundabout in the south, therefor there is no word for it. Although there are occasionally weird circly road thingees that utterly baffle people with their existence.
 
phucheneh said:
A little insight there, but also a lot of 'this has been beaten to death' and 'in whose LSD coma were these options conceived.' It doesn't help that the pronunciations are written by someone without a firm grasp of the English language, leading me to question why my area appears to be entirely unique.


Observed flaws: I say caramel properly. Map shows TN says it properly. They do not; they say 'carmuhl'.

People who say 'Yall' generally do not use it exclusively and can still be heard saying 'you all' or 'you guys.' And retards who say 'yousZZZ guysZZZ' are not on the map.

'Been' is pronounced like the name 'Ben.' 'Bin' is for hicks who also say 'git.'

In TN, I have never heard the cited 'cray-on' in my freaking life. It's not the other multi-syllable option, either. It's 'cra-on,' like the name 'Stan' with the last letter truncated. Or slurred into 'cran.'

People who say mayonnaise with three syllables can go back to England, you limey fucks.

'Pi-con' for fuck's sake. If there's 'pee' in that word, punch yourself.

There is no such thing as a roundabout in the south, therefor there is no word for it. Although there are occasionally weird circly road thingees that utterly baffle people with their existence.
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Just came in here to crap on your post. Every pronunc you just posted is the southern mouth full of marbles uppity drawl. Go back to fucking your sister and leave your computer alone.
 
In Pennsylvania we have them everywhere and call them distributors... though there are many distributors that are not drive through too.

Any place that sells Kegs and Cases is a distributor.

Six packs and forty's etc are called bottle shops or Quart Stores (because up until about 2004 Yuengling used to continue to make quarts of beer)
Our shitty laws forced our dialect.


The Yinzer's over in Pittsburgh probably have another name for it but they have a different name for everything.. the fucking suckers.
 
CrimsonWolf said:
LOL'ed at the "brew thru" for the drive through liquor stores. I using that from now on.
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lol, I like this one too! We have them around here, but no "term" to describe them. It's just a drive through liquor store.

Edit: Just to ad my original comment on this link, which was posted to the Hume thread:

That link truly deserves a thread of its own, lol. Crawdad, Crayfish, Crawfish, I have heard all 3 regularly. I still don't know wtf to call them when I am around fishermen. Living in WI now for over 12 years, but grew up in both Nevada and IL, I have come across several of those pronunciations, and it was sometimes confusing as a kid.

I worked in Madison, WI for 1 year, and it was the first time I had ever heard of a "bubbler." Another odd phrase used in NE WI is "frying out" instead of grilling out. I have not heard that used anywhere else either.
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Here's one from within California: Those who grew up in the Bay Area called the freeways simply by their number. 280, 101, 85... Whereas if you grew up in LA and moved up north, they became "the 101, the 280, the 85"
 
The 'article in front of roads' bit definitely seems to be a west coast thing.

What is generally interesting about this topic is how different everyone is, even within local dialect. You'll notice that a lot of those maps have broad, lightly colored areas, which really don't mean imply some of the meanings that article is trying to put on them. Half the country in faded blue and half in faded red doesn't indicate some giant schism...just that there are general differences, with one region having more that half with one pronunciation (or term), and another region with more than half using the 'opposite.'

It's much easier peg terms like the classic pop/soda/coke. But a lot of pronunciations have 60/40 splits, at most. People tend to go with what they feel sounds right, coupled with what's around them...but if they're around both, it's pretty up in the air.

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

That adds a lot of depth by letting you see the results for your own area. In my case (Tennessee), there is a heavy mix in the middle of the state. It's not very concrete until you move out into the hills. Example:

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And they don't even have the third option: 'coop un' with even emphasis, maybe more on the 'coop.' That's the billhilly way. 'coopon' seems pretty universal, otherwise. Putting the 'cyoo' sound in it is probably widely regarded, even here, as 'proper,' but no one says it.

I weep for those who try to properly learn the English language. Best bet is to just say what seems to work...now I wanna look at some of these charts...

edit: the soda thing...
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Gotta imagine that's common. 'Coke' wins, but the other two are still fairly significant. Cultural/regional divide not found.

And one final question before I sleep...most of the country says 'poem' with two syllables? I call bullshit on this whole study. po-EM has never seemed common. PO-em always becomes one syllable when spoken. And once again, there is a group of tards, and they say 'poim.'
 
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Hmmm I have never heard a water fountain called a bubbler here in wisconsin and I have lived in both north and south areas of the state.
 
Newbian said:
Hmmm I have never heard a water fountain called a bubbler here in wisconsin and I have lived in both north and south areas of the state.
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I think it is most common around the NE/ E portion of the state. The few people I have heard use the term were from the Sheboygan area. I met them, among many others, while working in the capitol. Another intriguing insight into WI, was the large Hmong population, which I was completely oblivious to living in the Southern part of the state.
 
And there are some things that are so unique to an area that the entire rest of the country would say "I have no word for that". Here we have the "parking chair". If in winter you have shoveled out a parking spot on the curb, you can put a folding chair or other lightweight chair in that parking spot to hold your parking place and nobody will touch it.

SirStev0 said:
The Yinzer's over in Pittsburgh probably have another name for it but they have a different name for everything.. the fucking suckers.
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We agree on "hoagies", right? 🙂
 
So there's different variations of English spoken in the US....a country that was settled as a trash can for all the undesirable personas of the European continent. Whoop. Only here we have a problem with calling these variations "dialects", then sit in shock and awe why people don't speak one homogenous language.
 
Lol on the drive thru liquor stores. The North is like "Never heard of that, it even exists!?"

The rural areas are like "yea nothing special wal-mart has better prices" And WTF is a Brew-Thru? :awe:

I was shocked the first time I ever saw beer in a wal-mart.
 
So wait, you're trying to tell me that different people who've been living in different regions of this vast country for generations talk differently than groups from other regions? No way! I bet that your next trick will be to claim that they speak entirely different languages on other continents.
 
SirStev0 said:
Just came in here to crap on your post. Every pronunc you just posted is the southern mouth full of marbles uppity drawl. Go back to fucking your sister and leave your computer alone.
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The above coming from a guy from Pennsylvania. I've driven through there a couple of times, and see nothing but corn fields and the Yankee version of rednecks. You have little room to talk.
 
OverVolt said:
Lol on the drive thru liquor stores. The North is like "Never heard of that, it even exists!?"

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i found it odd that the north had never heard of them. there are drive through beer distros all over PA, there were 2 in the town i went to college in. literally you drive into the warehouse that is a giant fridge, roll the window down tell them what you want and they put it in your car.
 
phucheneh said:
In TN, I have never heard the cited 'cray-on' in my freaking life. It's not the other multi-syllable option, either. It's 'cra-on,' like the name 'Stan' with the last letter truncated. Or slurred into 'cran.'


There is no such thing as a roundabout in the south, therefor there is no word for it. Although there are occasionally weird circly road thingees that utterly baffle people with their existence.
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Do you live in the mountains or something? I've never heard anyone call a cray-on a cran. Roundabouts are also catching on in some areas, at least in the Nashville area. I drive through two most days.
 
i grew up in Maine and its always been cran - 1 syllable

and i really wish there were more roundabouts/traffic circles in more places. so much better than lights or stop signs
 
Yamada said:
So there's different variations of English spoken in the US....a country that was settled as a trash can for all the undesirable personas of the European continent. Whoop. Only here we have a problem with calling these variations "dialects", then sit in shock and awe why people don't speak one homogenous language.
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To be fair have you ever heard English spoken in many parts of Europe?

Hell even in England it can be massacred in different regions and I am looking at you liverpool.
 
I don't know anyone that doesn't call it a "Sunshower".

And yes, drive up liquor stores exist. Best part is that only one person in the car needs to be of age. At least in my state.
 
wtf is a yinz.. i've also heard drizzles of rain referred to as "spit" from my Pittsburgh born coworkers.
 
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