![]() What do you call a sale of unwanted items held in your porch, in your hard, etc. The newspaper gives four sample questions: IN my opinion, this is much less true than in England especially in the time of George Bernard Shaw / Henry Higgins (character in Pygmalion and half a century later, My Fair Lady), but if you carefully pick your questions, you may be able to tell where someone comes from. I’m missing the text and/or it seems to be different text than what was in the newspaper. I found it – I missed it in the newspaper – it’s in the Sunday Review (editorials and opinion, formerly Week in Review) section on page 7 – I didn’t read that thoroughly.īut my browser is out of date, so I can’t see it on this computer: Is your map accurate? What questions amuse you? And: are there really people out there who call a median “neutral ground”? Do y’all think a street is some kind of a battlefield? What is wrong with you? Learn to speak correctly! Our waitress last night had just taken it. Our kids’ maps center around California: Long Beach, Corona, Fremont, and Glendale are the types of towns I see on theirs. I think I have mentioned before how I got back a transcript where my “y’all” was annotated with a parenthetical reading “phonetic.” And how I had an interview with a law firm once in Los Angeles, years ago, where a woman asked me if I really said “y’all.” I opened my mouth to say “yes” and the male interviewer snapped: “Of COURSE he doesn’t! He speaks English!” (I didn’t get the job.) It gives people in California fits at times. That makes sense to me, as I think my speech patterns have changed very little since I was a teenager. All my towns center narrowly around the area where I grew up. Sure, I live in California, but I speak pretty much the same way today as I always have - and I grew up in Fort Worth, one of the towns on my map. Lexington was one of the cities on his map.) As for me, here is my map: (Each quiz generates a map with three cities whose dialects are most similar to yours. I learned about it from my brother-in-law, who lives in Lexington, Kentucky - and whose map put him in Lexington, Kentucky. Well, now the New York Times has gone and created a 25-question quiz that claims to be able to place your dialect on the map. ![]() It appears that my dialect map correctly identified my Yankee roots.Regular readers will remember a fun video about regional dialects that I published here on Thanksgiving. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut, spent my college years in Texas, and then worked in Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and California as an adult. The test is based on a Harvard Dialect Survey that began in 2002. The New York Times recently published a test titled How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk, which allows the user to create a personal dialect heat map in a few minutes by answering 25 questions about word meaning and pronunciation. Now, however, I’ve heard modern day linguists say that while slang permeates society fairly quickly due to television, dialects are as strong as ever. ![]() After World War II, when people moved around more, dialects were less apparent. Apparently, the man was quite accurate and the show made for fun listening. The host of the show would have callers recite a list of words and guess their U.S. in English linguistics, used to say that she listened to a linguist on the radio pre-World War II.
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