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Dialects Found in US English. Is regionalism connected to the pronunciation of words in the United States? The following will hopefully answer this question. -results used from Dr. Bert Vaux’s Dialect Survey [email protected] - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Is regionalism connected to the pronunciation of words in the United States? The following will hopefully answer this question.
-results used from Dr. Bert Vaux’s Dialect Survey
Reference: http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/index.html
How do you say the word aunt?
“ah”nt
“ant”
“au”nt (as in ‘caught’)
1. aunt a. [ ] as in "ah" (9.62%) b. [ ] as in "ant" (75.15%) c. [ ] as in "caught" (2.77%)
Can you detect any regional differences with this word?
How do you pronounce the word been?
As in “sit” (bin)
As in “see” (been)
As in “set” (ben)
a. [ ] as in "sit" (64.82%) b. [i:] as in "see" (3.59%) c. [ ] as in "set" (28.60%)
Slight difference in Upper Midwest
The first vowel in the word Florida.
“Flow” rida
“Flah” rida
“Flaw” rida
“Flore” ida
a. [o:] as in "flow" ("flow-ri-da") (4.95%) b. [ ] as in "ah" ("flah-ri-da") (11.37%) c. [ ] as in "saw" ("flaw-ri-da") (7.09%) d. [ ] as in "sore" ("flore-i-da") (73.38%)
How do you pronounce the word lawyer?
As in “boy” (loyer)
As in “saw” (law-yer)
a. with [ j] as in "boy" ("loyer") (72.84%) b. with [ ] as in "saw" ("law-yer") (21.96%)
Upper Midwest? Northwest?
The second vowel in the word pajamas.
As in “jam” (pa-jamas)
As in “father (pa-jahmas)
a. [ ] as in "jam" (45.92%) b. [ ] as in "father" (51.86%)
Which of these terms do you prefer
for a sale of unwanted items on
your porch, in your yard, etc.?Tag sale, yard sale, garage sale, rummage sale
a. tag sale (3.60%) b. yard sale (36.41%) c. garage sale (52.17%) d. rummage sale (3.10%) (10736 respondents)
What do you call the long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on? a. sub (77.15%) b. grinder (2.87%) c. hoagie (6.98%) d. hero (5.18%) (10708 respondents)
66. What do you call the miniature lobster that one finds in lakes and streams for example (a crustacean of the family Astacidae)?Crawfish. Crayfish, Crawdad
a. crawfish (38.82%) b. crayfish (32.45%) e. crawdad (19.48%) (10684 respondents)
73. What is your *general* term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?
Sneakers, gym shoes, tennis shoes, other?
a. sneakers (45.50%) c. gymshoes (5.55%) f. tennis shoes (41.34%) (10722 respondents)
75. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?Shopping cart, grocery cart,
Carriage, buggy
a. shopping cart (77.02%) c. grocery cart (13.95%) e. carriage (0.95%) f. buggy (4.11%) (10705 respondents)
What term do you use to refer to something that is across both streets from you at an intersection (or diagonally across from you in general)?
Kitty-corner? Anything else?
a. kitty-corner (49.53%) d. catty-corner (30.38%) g. I can only use "diagonal" for this (12.31%) (10706 respondents)
77. What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car?
a. doing donuts (80.71%) b. doing cookies (1.74%) c. whipping shitties (1.43%) d. other (16.12%) (10011 respondents)
80. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
a. sunshower (34.29%) c. the devil is beating his wife (6.43%) h. I have no term or expression for this (55.15%) (10691 respondents)
94. Do you say "frosting" or "icing" for the sweet spread one puts on a cake?
a. frosting (32.79%) b. icing (16.88%) c. icing is thinner than frosting, white, and/or made of powdered sugar and milk or lemon juice (20.73%) d. both (28.87%) (10702 respondents)
What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school?
a. bubbler (3.84%) c. drinking fountain (33.16%) d. water fountain (60.97%) e. other (1.74%) (10656 respondents)
Obvious regional influence?
105. What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?
a. soda (52.97%) b. pop (25.08%) c. coke (12.38%) (10669 respondents)
What do you call the act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper?
a. tp'ing (57.61%) b. rolling (6.68%) c. toilet papering (21.04%) (10658 respondents)