Thursday, June 6, 2013

Speak English!

22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other



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 Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of Professor Bert Vaux and Scott Golder's linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words. (via detsl on /r/Linguistics)
His results were first published on Abstractthe N.C. State research blog. 
Joshua gave us permission to publish some of the coolest maps from his collection.

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