Dialect maps.
March 26th, 2004
Oh, awesome. The Penny-Arcade guys have uncovered
the Harvard
geographic dialect data underpinning that “Yankee vs. Dixie” quiz
(the link escapes me at the moment). The raw data is much more
interesting than the quiz (which is based on the data but then makes
some bizarre mathematical leaps based on how you answer). Oh, and then,
there’s the Speech Accent
Archive from George Mason U. Delicious.