Dialects

This survey was fascinating to me. I think it would be to many of you out there as well. It's got every dialect question I could ever think of, it seems. :)

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html

It's especially interesting to look at the population maps after you take it. It's weird to see what parts of my speech came from where.

My parents were from Wisconsin and I got a lot from them, I lived in Ohio until I was 7, and spent the rest of my life in Connecticut...therefore I say soda instead of pop (from my Wisconsin parents), sub instead of grinder (from my Ohioness), and rotary instead of traffic circle or roundabout (from New England).

It's fascinating. :)

Very interesting!!!

I found fascinating the fact that "tag sale" is a little cluster right around where I grew up...

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_58.html

Seems most of the country says "yard sale" or "garage sale".

 

I'm a tag-saler too :)

Woo!

Go us!

Also interesting is the lack of "flea market".

 

I always think of that more as a more organized commercial outing. Full of professional vendors, not people just trying to clean out their houses.