http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1

wtf Alabama and Mississippi? Still living in the stone age eh?




Anyone know a guy name Joshua Katz in the statistics department? He came up with all this stuff. Also, who the fuck refers to a water fountain as a "bubbler?"

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6/5/2013 4:23:16 PM

Why is white missing from the key? That seems to be the prevalent option down south.

6/5/2013 4:25:26 PM

who the fuck says loyer? it is clearly a "law-yer"

6/5/2013 4:29:59 PM

We are a nation divided over mayonnaise.

6/5/2013 4:30:44 PM

I saw "loyer". Mainly, because it is the correct pronunciation

6/5/2013 4:32:48 PM

maybe i'm not pronouncing it right in my head, but "loyer" just doen't sound like anything i've ever heard

6/5/2013 4:36:30 PM

omg people make fun of me like crazy for pronouncing it was like "crown" where's my yellow peeps at?!?!

6/5/2013 4:42:20 PM

^"crown" is clearly not the word.

6/5/2013 4:44:31 PM

First off. OP, I recently move to AL and currently working in Huntsville. Haven't heard anyone say "the devil is beating his wife", maybe not long enough to hear it yet.

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"Also, who the fuck refers to a water fountain as a "bubbler?""

New Englanders. I have two co-workers from MA and RI, use 'Bubbler' as a water fountain.

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6/5/2013 4:44:42 PM

i've heard and said devil is beating his wife my entire life. in NC.

6/5/2013 4:48:26 PM

I am known as a cunning linguist

6/5/2013 4:49:25 PM

^^^I have lived in Huntsville, AL for the past 6 years. I've never heard it either but I wouldn't put it past them. I've heard some very strange phrases here.

6/5/2013 4:53:24 PM

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6/5/2013 4:53:54 PM

I've lived in rural Alabama and heard it, but from old folks

6/5/2013 4:54:13 PM

roundabouts and traffic circles are different things.

freeways and highways too, but at least he gave people the option to realize they are different...

6/5/2013 4:54:46 PM

brew-thru?

Come on, that's hilarious.

6/5/2013 4:58:28 PM

I've heard bubbler in PA.

6/5/2013 4:59:19 PM

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"brew-thru? Come on, that's hilarious. "

Outer Banks represent.

Also, looking over these and considering the way I pronounce things, it's abundantly clear that I was raised in NC by parents from Jersey. My pronuncations split neatly between the two.

6/5/2013 5:34:26 PM

^ha, I too also have Yankee parents, but was raised in the south.


I'm so confused

6/5/2013 5:37:03 PM

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"roundabouts and traffic circles are different things."

i still call them traffic circles.

6/5/2013 5:37:46 PM

and what was the comment about white people being mostly in the south

leave your county at least once in your life

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6/5/2013 6:49:51 PM

wuter

6/5/2013 7:22:47 PM

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"omg people make fun of me like crazy for pronouncing it was like "crown" where's my yellow peeps at?!?! "

My kid does this and it's hilarious. Back a few years ago we'd have this conversation over and over:

Me: Say "cray"
him: "cray"
Me: Say "on"
him: "on"
Me: Say "cray-on"
him: "crown".

6/5/2013 8:38:22 PM

I don't remember ever hearing "loyers" in media/movies

FAKE

6/5/2013 8:45:29 PM

I have said "the devil is beating his wife" all my life when it rains when the sun is out (not from alabama nor mississippi...eastern NC). posted a picture with that caption the other week sparking a conversation of idioms people use for "sunshowers."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshower

but saw this on a tww'ers fb today...very interesting.

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6/5/2013 8:52:16 PM

Eastern nc is like the retarded offspring of Alabama and Mississippi.

6/5/2013 8:54:05 PM

Alabama and Mississippi are faaaar worse than eastern nc.

6/5/2013 8:55:11 PM

I had a debate with two roommates once that Cary, carry, and Kerry were three different words. They disagreed. This was printed when I asked who john Carey was, when my roommate was referenced john Kerry... ( it was well after the election and out of a political context, and he pronounced it like cary)

This explains. I'm from new jersey

6/5/2013 8:56:49 PM

when I say cold, it sounds like code. Same for old...sounds like ode.

6/5/2013 8:57:17 PM

Do you also say on as own?

6/5/2013 8:58:30 PM

No. It's the L I have a problem with I think. People say I just have a speech impediment.

6/5/2013 8:59:32 PM

It's because you've sucked a lot of dick. Your tounge is all out of whack.

6/5/2013 9:15:21 PM

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"I had a debate with two roommates once that Cary, carry, and Kerry were three different words. They disagreed. This was printed when I asked who john Carey was, when my roommate was referenced john Kerry... ( it was well after the election and out of a political context, and he pronounced it like cary) This explains. I'm from new jersey "

I've had the same argument after a friend insisted that the girl's name Kerry and the city of Cary were pronounced identically. For me, not so much. It's the Jersey parents.

6/5/2013 9:26:58 PM

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" I have said "the devil is beating his wife" all my life when it rains when the sun is out (not from alabama nor mississippi...eastern NC)."

6/5/2013 9:32:30 PM

There should be a map for "How do you say 'You're an idiot'?"

Red=You're an idiot
Yellow=Fuck off
Green=Bless your heart

6/6/2013 12:33:59 AM

so yellow - pennsylvania and north and east
green - the south
red - the rest of the country

6/6/2013 12:35:35 AM

Paws
Pause
Pauls

6/6/2013 8:56:01 AM

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"Do you also say on as own?"

My girl teases me about this. I say "on" somewhere between "awn" and "own."

Also, swimming pool and and pull on a rope are identical "pull."

Apparently, I don't accent TV correctly. While most say, "tee-VEE," I tend to say "tee-vee" or "TEE-vee."

I blame my dad being an army brat and comm major (neutral accent + an insistence on proper enunciation). All that prescriptivism and correction conflict with Mom's Virginian speech.

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6/6/2013 9:24:55 AM

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"i've heard and said devil is beating his wife my entire life. in NC."

6/6/2013 9:29:27 AM

The rest of Katz's maps are available too:

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

6/6/2013 9:35:59 AM

I think I've heard the term sunshower, but don't use it. I have no term/phrase for this. Anyone that says something about the devil beating his wife should be beaten.

6/6/2013 9:38:57 AM

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"My girl teases me about this. I say "on" somewhere between "awn" and "own." Also, swimming pool and and pull on a rope are identical "pull.""

changing from "own" to "awn" was something I consciously made myself do a while back... it was about the only word I pronounced like a hillbilly

and are you serious about the pool/pull? that's a pretty big difference haha

6/6/2013 9:42:38 AM

we always called it a golden shower

6/6/2013 9:44:10 AM

I could spend hours looking through this. The individual maps are much better.

Also, I talk more like a non-southener.

6/6/2013 9:44:11 AM

bin Ben been
tin ten
pin pen
Mary marry merry

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6/6/2013 9:47:04 AM

Ya, I basically say things like I spent the afternoon at the swimming pull. I don't know why, but anything else sounds odd to me.

When I hear other people say "on," it sounds like "ahn." High vowel, short n. Own is distinct because it's a low vowel with a long n sound, so I guess I say it similar to the vowel sound in "caught" (but not cot) and with a long n sound at the end.

6/6/2013 9:50:26 AM

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"Mary marry merry"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfj2Ir3GgQ

my grandfather in-law's wife is named Mary... he pronounces it "Murray" (as in Bill Murray)

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6/6/2013 9:51:28 AM

It's swimming pill with a scottish accent.

^She's using a homonym gimmick that doesn't even exist outside the south. The perfect country song.

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6/6/2013 9:52:29 AM

I do come from a long line of scots.

6/6/2013 9:53:23 AM

I still say "the devil is beating his wife"

I also like the term pill bug over roly poly, I use the term icing, and I grew up saying buggy, sneakers and scrap paper.

Apparently I am from no particular region.

6/6/2013 9:53:42 AM