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EVERYONE KNOWS that Americans don’t exactly agree on pronunciations.
Regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting as a dialect.
Joshua Katz, a PhD student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualisations of a linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words.
His results were first published on Abstract, the NC State research blog.
Joshua gave Business Insider permission to publish some of the coolest maps from his collection:
The pronunciation of ‘caramel’ starts disregarding vowels once you go west of the Ohio River
Residents of the far north have an oddly Canadian way of pronouncing "been"
For whatever reason, it's a "boo-wie" knife in Texas and D.C.
Americans can't even agree how to pronounce crayon
The South is the only place where you'll try to call your "law-yer" instead of your "loyer"
The South is also really into slaw. The North and West call it coleslaw
This is the deepest and most obvious linguistic divide in America. It's also an example of how everyone in south Florida pronounces things in the northern U.S. style
The US is a nation divided over mayonnaise
Some of the deepest schisms in America are over the pronunciation of the second syllable of "pajamas"
Okay, this one is crazy. Everyone pronounces "Pecan Pie" differently
Everyone knows that the Midwest calls it "pop", the Northeast and West Coast call it "soda," while the South is really into brand loyalty
Tiny lobsters are tearing the USA apart
So are traffic circles
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