cheatsheet:npr:(via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America)Joshua Katz, a Ph.
cheatsheet:npr:(via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America)Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of a linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words. Among the words he maps are crawfish, syrup, caramel, lawyer, mayonnaise and pecan. He also maps regions by how they refer to a carbonated beverage (the age-old soda or pop question) and how people address groups of two or more people — though as someone who spent time in Pittsburgh, yinz seems to be conspicuously absent. — heidiCheck it out, Y’ALL. -- source link
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