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Sara, my answer to the question you posted is 'pop'.Since it's the first day of summer, here's my question for you. What do you call them??
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Hi Cheri!The map went back to the soda/coke/pop/soft drink question...and my answer to that (being the native NYer that I am) is soda. I live with and love a Coke drinker from GA. There are a lot of fun questions in there, and some differences I really did not know were so regional! I've now lived in PA, VA, IN, KS, NV, and OR (and have spent enough time in TX/NM to qualify as living there at least for a while) and have heard a lot of these regional differences in person. It's fun to see them mapped out! :)
Sorry Sara! It's question #65. And yes it was fun to look at. I wasted some time reading through it too!
I notice that neither Alaska nor Hawaii appear on this map. Therefore, incomplete !! n
Nancy wrote: "I notice that neither Alaska nor Hawaii appear on this map. Therefore, incomplete !! n"I agree, and that's why I pointed out that it was just the Lower 48. I'd love to see the results from AK and HI. I'm not sure why they were left out?
Cheri wrote: "Sorry Sara! It's question #65. And yes it was fun to look at. I wasted some time reading through it too!":) I used to call them fireflies, but when we moved to Indiana, I think I started to call them lightning bugs at times. Sadly, they don't exist out here in the big desert. I miss the twinkles!
Sara, here in Ohio they are lightning bugs. Saw the first ones over the weekend.
Sara wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I notice that neither Alaska nor Hawaii appear on this map. Therefore, incomplete !! n"I agree, and that's why I pointed out that it was just the Lower 48. I'd love to see the res..."
There may be an assumption that all Alaska speaks some sort of Oklahoma-Texas chant. True, and then there are all Native Alaskan languages. Not the Native spoken word, but the lilt of the speech.
Sara, There are so many twangs that come from somewhere else. A map exists that delineates the Native languages of Alaska. n
Hi Nancy! Yes, it is fascinating to me to hear (or see when mapped out!) where accents, grammar usage, and words are used and the regional variations that have evolved over time. That's one of the reasons I was disappointed to only see the lower 48---I've love to see where in the lower 48 Alaska and Hawaii are close to in their usage! :)
In the area I live now (Southern Oregon), there was a lot of migration to the area from the Midwest, and you hear it in the local speech, where people often drop "to be," so people say (for example) that their car "needs washed," or "needs fixed." I heard this usage a lot when I lived in Indiana and Kansas, almost never in NV, PA, or VA, and now I hear it all the time again. I've had to explain some NY-metro area regionalisms I use as I've moved around the country, too.
Native language distribution is also something that is fascinating to me, especially after living in Lawrence, KS, home of what is now Haskell Indian Nations University. I worked and went to school with a number of Native Americans from different tribes which really raised my awareness. I'll have to look for that map you mentioned! :)
I think that most of the people in this group love language. This is the neatest map outlining some of the language differences found across the lower 48 states. I've been wasting, er, spending a lot of time looking at the maps...hope you enjoy it! :)
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