<p>These maps are not only fascinating, but the editor’s comments are really funny. </p>
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<p>Discuss. ;)</p>
<p>I had fun with this, but don’t agree, of course about what some things are called or how some words are pronounced in Chicago, were I was born and raised, and now live near.</p>
<p>Interesting article about a study on the regional differences, I especially like the map showing the word(s) used to address a group of two or more people :)</p>
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<p>There are drive-thru liquor stores?</p>
<p>I love this (as a proponent of the “of course Mary, merry, and marry are three different words; what are you, crazy?” school of thought).</p>
<p>This must be circulating - just saw it in my Facebook feed!</p>
<p>I don’t frequent them but I believe we have a couple drive-thru liquor stores- kind of like a drive through convenience store - around here.</p>
<p>Yes, we have them.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in different parts of the country and have been literally laughed at for some of my words. Most of these words didn’t have a map. </p>
<p>Some of the most memorable are pan-cookies versus bars, inSURance versus INsurance, patio door versus door wall, done versus finished, and State versus States (the place your high school team goes when they’ve won all their games).</p>
<p>My daughter and her college friends were having fun on facebook with this (since they come from many different areas of the country). She keeps wondering how would you marry merry mary and make that understood if you said all 3 words the same?</p>
<p>How do you not have a term for sun shower?</p>
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A dream come true!</p>
<p>I found it very interesting that a few pronunciations had a very small pocket in central PA that used it. I couldn’t help but wonder if it had anything to do with the prevalence of the Amish/PA Dutch and their influence on the language.</p>
<p>Fun article - thanks for posting!</p>
<p>Really funny but i have some issues with it lol: I’ve rarely met a Michigander who uses more than one syllable for crayon. I’ve also never heard of a traffic circle. It’s a roundabout. I’ve always heard roundabout. However, Michigan had so few of them that I wonder of people knew what it was. We use highway and freeway pretty interchangeably though I do notice more highway on the west coast and freeway on east of Michigan.</p>
<p>I love different speech patterns. They’re fun to study.</p>
<p>Interesting… The one that got my attention was the long, cold cut sandwich. Only in Louisiana and my little corner of Texas it is know as a Po’boy.</p>
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<p>Yes. Some states specifically allow drive-through * liquor stores and some states have no state-wide restrictions and leave it up to local municipalities to decide.</p>
<p>Also many alcohol stores are not actually drive through but are drive “next to” sort of like picking up one’s meal at a McDonalds.</p>
<p>Some drive-through stores I’ve seen (such as at the Outer Banks in North Carolina) sell only beer and wine and not distilled spirits.</p>
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<li>The spelling of the word as “thru” is one of my pet peeves.</li>
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<p>A sandwich is a hero to me.</p>
<p>True life example.</p>
<p>Many (many) years ago when I was a grad student at Penn State, I went to a local fast-food restaurant to get a cup of coffee (pronounced koff-ee).</p>
<p>But the young female attendant behind the counter said she did not understand what I wanted and asked me to repeat my order.</p>
<p>So, I repeated it … the second time, a little slower.</p>
<p>Her dazed look revealed to me that she had no idea what I was talking about.</p>
<p>So, with my finger, I pointed to the tall steel urn behind her and said “I want a cup of the hot brown beverage that pours out of that device.”</p>
<p>She said: “Oh… KAH-fee!"</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>@GolfFather, I have the 2-thumbed smartphone spelling of “thru” and the 10-fingered PC keyboard spelling of “through”</p>
<p>Pop/Soda/Any carbonated beverage being a “coke” is always an interesting contrast also… :)</p>
<p>Here in the STL area, we seem to be among the few who understand what Toasted Ravioli is too… LOL</p>
<p>If you follow the link at the end of the slides, it takes you to more of Katz’s results. You can even find your city (or one nearby) and see the results for the area for each question. It was interesting to see this for my area, Huntsville, since there are fewer and fewer people native to Alabama. The high tech companies have brought a lot of people from around the US.</p>