The people who put together those dialect maps on how people speak across the US, have taken those maps and use them to predict where you are from. My wife and I gave it a whirl and it seems like it ...
Ah, ‘Merica. Land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where proper dialects go their separate ways. Let’s face it, in a country this big, it was bound to happen. Nevertheless, it jars us ...
Do you call a long sandwich of cold cuts a sub, a hoagie, or a hero? A slew of new maps prove how you answer this, and a load of other questions, can betray where in America you come from. The ...
Odds are you’ve noticed the spate of eerily accurate American-dialect quizzes making the rounds online. The questionnaires, which draw on data from the Harvard Dialect Survey to pinpoint the ...
Not everyone in the United States speaks the same English, as a recent American Dialect quiz made very clear. In an essay originally published on her blog, Harmless Drudgery, lexicographer and Merriam ...
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The author presents theoretical and practical problems related to research on linguistic diversity in the Lubuski region situated in the historic German-Polish borderland which up to 1945 belonged to ...
Welsh people have had their say on a map that claims to show the different dialects of the UK. But, as many pointed out on social media, there were a lot of things wrong with it. The Map of British ...
A research team of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), a Qatar Foundation partner university, is working on exploring and analysing dialects in Qatar. "Our main goal is to expand Qatar's ...
'As if someone from Welshpool has the same accent as someone in Holyhead' Welsh people have had their say on a map that claims to show the different dialects of the UK. But, as many pointed out on ...