A helluva lot of research displayed in an excellent format! The link is to the large-scale map...there is a link there to switch to small-scale.

American English Dialects

I had to laugh at the little circle around Pittsburgh and the fact that the map recognizes that Downtown New Orleans has its own dialect.

It is interesting to me because I grew up near Pittsburgh and now live 75 miles from downtown New Orleans. That map is correct.

Very interesting.

(05-06-2013 02:47 PM)TerryD Wrote:  I had to laugh at the little circle around Pittsburgh and the fact that the map recognizes that Downtown New Orleans has its own dialect.

It is interesting to me because I grew up near Pittsburgh and now live 75 miles from downtown New Orleans. That map is correct.

People from NOLA sound like they are from NYC...so true.

(05-06-2013 07:09 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(05-06-2013 02:47 PM)TerryD Wrote:  I had to laugh at the little circle around Pittsburgh and the fact that the map recognizes that Downtown New Orleans has its own dialect.

It is interesting to me because I grew up near Pittsburgh and now live 75 miles from downtown New Orleans. That map is correct.

People from NOLA sound like they are from NYC...so true.

Cincinnati is on an island all by themselves, no? It is pretty interesting.

That's one of my favorite maps. It's neat how much the accents line up with cultural regions of the USA on this webpage:

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/...gions.html


Particularly this map:
http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/..._areas.gif