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And I've never heard of "Gullah", "Ozark", and "Bonac" before now.
Also its interesting how they lump eastern New England together. I know from experience that the Rhode Island accent is very different from the Boston accent. Or maybe the "Bonac" thing is actually the Rhode Island accent only with a fancy name...
I've lived in Spokane and currently live in Seattle. Never heard a single person ever say "Muckatymuck". Maybe I'm hanging with the wrong crowd. People up here do say "beg" when reffering to a bag though.
I really wish people would stop posting this map. It's not based on the most recent, thorough, and empirical studies of American accents. It is largely based off of earlier lexicography (word) mappings, which bear little relevance to phonological differences.
If you want something much more scientifically sound, albeit still limited in the number of speakers studied, look at the Atlas of North American English.
If you want something much more scientifically sound, albeit still limited in the number of speakers studied, look at the Atlas of North American English.
Well that's an interesting map too.
I know Providence's accent, but what are the STL and Charleston accents like, I wonder?
There are definitely better maps. It separates the Boston urban, but doesn't separate the Atlantic Midland of Philly/Baltimore from St. Louis.
That said, I'm not sure these are dialects rather than simply accents. I'm not completely sure of the difference, but I was under the understanding that it had to be more than pronunciation and some vocabulary differences.
I used to speak with what I thought was called an "Eastern Great Lakes" accent, but that would seem to be Inland Northern on the map. In any case, I lost most of that accent after living in Manhattan for forty years, where my accent just seemed to bland out.
I have visited the town I was raised in and someone always remarks that I do not sound like I come from there any more, and I listen to them and I know that they are right. The tendency to nasalize vowels is the most noticable loss to me.
I live in Europe, and Europeans usually guess "Canadian" or "Irish," but American tourists will ask "Where are you from in the U.S.," or "Are you American?"
Though most of the time I speak English, I am surrounded by TV and radio broadcasting in Portuguese, and by people speaking the language everywhere. And what I have found is that the distinctive Portuguese pronunciation of S before T as SH, or S at the end of a word as SH sometimes creeps into my English.
That is the most inaccurate dialect map that I ever seen.
Agreed. They don't include "Pittsburghese", which is very distinct and covers a large area.
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