How Americans Speak English Totally Differently

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  1. RECcane

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    Everyone knows that Americans don't exactly agree on pronunciations.

    Regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting as a dialect.

    Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of Professor Bert Vaux and Scott Golder's linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words. (via detsl on /r/Linguistics)

    His results were first published on Abstract, the N.C. State research blog.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1#ixzz2cvZepUG9
     
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    Ha! That's some good stuff.

    I call those little freshwater lobsters... mudbugs!

    :D
     
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    :D Mudbugs, now that's a new one on me, I call em crawdads....
     
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