Dialexicon: map of US accents by county

[Tom Zurinskas]

>And if any linguist were to tell me that all US counties fall neatlyinto one dialect area, I would check to see if the date was April 1st.

We kind of do.  It's TV and radio.  I'll never forget going to college in East Tenn from Conn and hearing the dialects.  Then TV came on and it was back to the real world.  But I like the dialect.  Reflects a way of life.  When I go there I start talking (not "tocking") funny too.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling



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> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:27:02 -0600
> From: dsgood at IPHOUSE.COM
> Subject: Re: Dialexicon: map of US accents by county
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Dan Goodman
> Subject: Re: Dialexicon: map of US accents by county
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> On 12/20/2009 10:24 AM, Damien Hall wrote:
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>> Poster: Damien Hall
>> Subject: Dialexicon: map of US accents by county
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>> I got the following response from the creator of Dialexicon. As people
>> who've responded may suspect, this doesn't actually seem to me so much a
>> linguistic project as an anthropological one or something else: Katey Szum
>> doesn't seem as interested in a representative sample of American English
>> as in potentially charting some migration patterns within the country (if
>> the zipcode information is put on the site). (S)he's also apparently
>> completely unaware of much of the dialectological work that's already been
>> done on American English, and of the good ways of collecting data. So it's
>> an attractive-looking project but, as has been concluded, not much
>> linguistic substance, unfortunately.
>
> Aside from that: I live in a state which borders on Canada. Hennepin
> County is well South of the border; but Canadians do move here. So do
> people from various other English-speaking countries.
>
> And if any linguist were to tell me that all US counties fall neatly
> into one dialect area, I would check to see if the date was April 1st.
>
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