Dialect Survey Maps and Results

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http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/lingu...alect/maps.html

[pedroh 21]

this PWNS

Info for NC

50. What word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people?

a. you all (11.18%)

b. yous, youse (0.32%)

d. you guys (14.38%)

e. you 'uns (0.64%)

f. yins (0.32%)

g. you (5.11%)

h. other (1.92%)

i. y'all (66.13%)

72. What do you call the big clumps of dust that gather under furniture and in corners?

a. dust bunnies (75.73%) (#######?? never heard that)

b. dust kittens (0.32%)

c. dust mice (0.32%)

e. dust balls (18.77%)

f. other (4.85%)

LAWL

[MichelleandCraig 1]

guess I'm in a majority with dust bunnies and you guys! Also, half the time I can't get Craig's name right! ..the proper way he's used to hearing it I guess..when I try to say it differently he either laughs at me or sometimes I hear...yeah! like that! that was right!! Thought it was funny that it was actually on the list! M.

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this PWNS

Glad you liked it. I spent hours on this last night, fun stuff

[Jenn! 918]

wicked cool

BTW, I can't believe "cyoopon" is the minority. I thought I was normal!

Edited April 10, 2006 by jenn3539

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BTW, I can't believe "cyoopon" is the minority. I thought I was normal!

Do you feel marginalized and oppressed yet?

[Jenn! 918]

And who the heck says, "groshery" store, or "nurshery" school?

Fascinating stuff!

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And who the heck says, "groshery" store, or "nurshery" school?

Fascinating stuff!

A lot of people in the NYC area lisp like that. Now let me go on the site and see if I'm right!

[Jenn! 918]

Less than 1% say "carriage"

When I go to the groCery store, I use a carriage!

Go Boston!

[blackbettie 0]

GREAT link!

[Sister Fracas 5]

I use cyoopons for my groCeries, which I put in a shopping cart.

I'm not sure but I think my husband uses vouchers for his groCeries, which he puts in a trolley.

Coool stuff Ari...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Grinders are wicked good.

[chri'stina 190]

yes, fun to read!

When I am talking to a group of ppl I say "you guys", I will never say ya'll!!

I especially liked this one in the Florida section:

37. huge, humor, humongous, human...

a. I pronounce the h (96.18%)

b. I don't pronounce the h (1.27%)

c. I can pronounce the h or not (2.38%)

d. other

My mom never pronounces the "h", I sometimes do and sometimes don't...my mom grew up in New York. Florida is interesting because it's a mix of ppl with southern accents with a bunch of ppl with northern accents.

My friends use to make fun of the way I said these 3 words differently:

(Florida)15. How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?

a. all 3 are the same (56.76%)

b. all 3 are different (11.11%)

c. Mary and merry are the same; marry is different (10.51%)

d. merry and marry are the same; Mary is different (1.20%)

e. Mary and marry are the same; merry is different (20.42%)

They are all different in my opinion not the same!...but most ppl around here(in my area of FL) say Mary and Merry the same, and Marry different. It's an influence I guess from my mom's way of saying it, though she never had a strong New York accent at all (I don't know why, when she grew up in Queens).

Edited April 10, 2006 by stina&suj

[almaty 19]

Grinders are wicked good.

so are bear claws