On Friday, September 26, during our discussion of languages, language families, and dialects, I mentioned a neat project that UW-Milwaukee did on mapping dialects across the United States. For example, you can see which parts of the country say "pop" or "soda" or "coke" to describe a carbonated soft drink.
Here is the link for UW-Milwaukee's dialect project, including the maps for tons of different words:
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
Is it a yard sale, rummage sale, or garage sale?
Sneakers or tennis shoes?
A bubbler or a water fountain or a drinking fountain?
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