The Dialect Survey Results

[eruthros]

Ooooh! I just realized that the dialect survey now has different pages for the responses from each state.

Dialect Survey Responses By State. Click "state data" for the breakdown on each question.

Thus, I can now tell you the following:

Although the majority of my home state (54.39%) says "cray-awn," where the second syllable rhymes with "dawn," I say "cray-ahn."
A plurality (46.59%) of responders from California say "reely" (as in "see"); I say "rilly" (as in "sit").
Tons (75.60%) of Californians pronounce "cot" and "caught" the same. I pronounce them differently.
Most Californians (63.16%) say "kwarter." I say "cor-ter."
55.31% of Californians say "ampitheater." I say "ampfitheater."

All of the attempted-"phonetic" spellings are from the dialect survey's questions.

Now I want everyone else to go and do this and tell me what they say differently. :)

Comments

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

Well, I would try it with some of my English teachers, but I don't think that their responses would fall in with the data too well... Most people in the states dont get their l's and r's mixed up... (Unless you want to talk about the "drawing/drawling" thing that little kids do, and I have no explanation for that...)

[eruthros]

Well, you could go to the website and what you say to the answers from Colorado, which I think we can agree is where you did your native-language-learning-schtick. :)

[fiatlouis.livejournal.com]

So nobody pronoucnces "Crayon" the way I do? I always say "cran", like cran-apple.