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Dialect Survey Maps

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Hey y'inz guys, look, it's a map!"

(Notice they missed that one.)

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With business clients like mine, you'd be better off herding cats.
 
I thought it was interesting that even though I was born and raised in Southern California, my speech more aligns with roughly Arizona and Missouri, where my parents are from. It makes a lot of sense.

 
I'm not sure how much credence to give it, since it seems to have been drawn with a watercolor. Places you'd expect to see boundaries and skewed data, such as areas in the state of Nevada where the population is near zero, do not show up that way.
 
Agree with SamBones regarding the influence of parents on your language. I grew up in central NJ, but didn't pick up a NY or Phila accent because my parents were from the Baltimore area. Nowadays, my accent is a hybrid of Baltimore, NJ, and the generic chatter of mass media.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw


 
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