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

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Fingolfin269 said:
Traffic circle?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circle

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Anubis said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circle

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So basically a traffic circle is a specific type of roundabout. I've never heard the term and based on the other maps they ask about regional ways of describing the same thing so assumed it was a regional naming difference. That may still be the case considering there are probably true roundabouts in those areas that have traffic circles but they have settled on using the generic term traffic circle for all types.

This map seems to be unlike the others.
 
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BurnItDwn said:
syrup is pronounced like seer up. syr is not "sir", Y makes an EE sound in that spelling.
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I had a symbolic tryst with a rhythmic pygmy gypsy who disagrees with your pronunciation of syrup.

Fun fact: If you read every "Y" in that sentence as a long "E" sound, you'll sound exactly like Peter Lorre's character in Casablanca. REECK! Help me Reeck!
 
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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Fingolfin269 said:
So basically a traffic circle is a specific type of roundabout. I've never heard the term and based on the other maps they ask about regional ways of describing the same thing so assumed it was a regional naming difference. That may still be the case considering there are probably true roundabouts in those areas that have traffic circles but they have settled on using the generic term traffic circle for all types.

This map seems to be unlike the others.
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it was honestly the first image i pulled from google.

traffic circle and roundabout are exactly the same in my expirence

i have see 4 way ones like that picture, however most are entered at an angle, ive seen ones where the circles is 100s of feet across to ones as small as 6 feet
 
Slew Foot said:
So basically the south is full of idiots.
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It varies widely was mostly the point of my first post, I guess. That and I'm full of hate.

Also, I honestly never thought 'cran' was weird. There's usually a half-assed attempt to say it 'correctly' kind of buried in there, but it always just ends up as one syllable. I blame the word itself for being an awful combination of letters.

On roundabouts: that is the common term here (in Nashville, in the city/suburbs...no 'hills'...that's East Tennessee), but only if someone is actually familiar with what they are. They are foreign to many. I only know of one in the whole Nashville/metro (whole county) area. Most people stay away from it because of the naked hippies partying into all hours of the night. Every once in a while some dumbass tries to put clothes on them.

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Anubis said:
traffic circle and roundabout are exactly the same in my expirence
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Agreed. Traffic Circle, Roundabout, Rotary...they're all the same to me. We don't have many in my area, so I don't use the words frequently, but I've heard them called all of the above by people that live here. Based on the map and survey results, 50% of the people around here called it a Traffic Circle, but I've hear Roundabout and Rotary much more frequently.
 
phucheneh said:
It varies widely was mostly the point of my first post, I guess. That and I'm full of hate.

Also, I honestly never thought 'cran' was weird. There's usually a half-assed attempt to say it 'correctly' kind of buried in there, but it always just ends up as one syllable. I blame the word itself for being an awful combination of letters.

On roundabouts: that is the common term here (in Nashville, in the city/suburbs...no 'hills'...that's East Tennessee), but only if someone is actually familiar with what they are. They are foreign to many. I only know of one in the whole Nashville/metro (whole county) area. Most people stay away from it because of the naked hippies partying into all hours of the night. Every once in a while some dumbass tries to put clothes on them.

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I live in the Nashville area as well and am really surprised we see things so differently. If I didn't know any better I'd assume you really live in Smyrna and must get your data from the local Wal-Mart. 😛
 
I grew up through 8th grade in the boonies of central New York. I moved to NW Ohio area beginning of ninth grade. There were two major changes in my young life due to that transition.

No, it wasn't changing schools.
It wasn't changing from living in a trailer to a house.
It wasn't even living walking distance from a fastfood or ice cream joint.

It was the fact that all of the kids called sneakers, tennis shoes and soda, pop. I was floored.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
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.
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there has been one in Raleigh, on Hillsborough street in front of main campus, for several years now--about 8 years, I think?

I have heard that from the time of its inception it has remained the most dangerous piece of asphalt in Wake county. 😀
 
WelshBloke said:
You call that a roundabout?

THIS is a roundabout.

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that looks like a roundabout made by other roundabout, inception.
Never seen one like that, I've already seen double side-by-side roundabouts though.

I think it's stupid and creates confusion, if there is enough space just make a very big 2-lane one.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
I live in the Nashville area as well and am really surprised we see things so differently. If I didn't know any better I'd assume you really live in Smyrna and must get your data from the local Wal-Mart. 😛
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I'm a few miles south of the airport. 37217 area code, but on the edge of Antioch and pretty close to Lavergne. Which, now that I think about it, I'm surprised I've never heard pronounced as luh-vurg-un...ugh. Like Lafayette (luh-faye-it...double uggghhhh).

I grew up in Davidson county.

I'm also unsure of which way you think I'm leaning...? I hear plenty of hillbinglish, but I don't speak it. There is some 'local' influence on my speech, but when I tell people I was born in Connecticut, I usually get a '...that explains it.'

edit: oh, and roundabouts...don't even fucking tell me you live in Franklin, LOL.

Nuke that shithole from orbit.
 
Living here in Georgia has its.......challenges when it comes to names of places around town. I get laughed at when I pronounce Armuchee Ar-moo-chee, its pronounced Ar-mur-chee. Taliaferro county is pronounced just the way it is spelled: Tol-liv-er. Yep, just like its spelled. As like above me LaFayette is pronounced la-Fay-it, not la-fee-et. Houston county is pronounced house-tun. Villa Rica is pronounced the way it is spelled not the Spanish way. So is Ponce de Leon ave- Ponse-duh-leeon. Hoschton is pronounced Hoosh-tun. Crazy shit.




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