Saturday, August 17, 2013

2350 - Say what?

How do you say certain words? Well it depends on what region of the country you're from. Take a look at the word 'pecan'. (click it to big it)

Which is your prefered speech?
Mine is the green which sort of fits the map above for the St. Louis area.

Anyway, there is a map with 100 words and how they are spoken around the country. I checked my blog and I don't think I've posted this before. Maybe something like it but not this one in particular. So go HERE and start speaking out loud to the computer screen.

5 comments:

Big Sky Heidi said...

It's nice to see the little linguistic cues that give peoples' origins away.

Mike said...

Heidi - If you get someone talking enough you could really narrow down their area of origin.

eViL pOp TaRt said...

Yep -- pi-KAHN wins out in my area. That's what I say, too.


This is an amazing source. Thank you, Mike!

Brandi said...

I'll try again when the server is not overloaded.

Mike said...

Angel - That's the 'right' way to say it.

Brandi - I've been getting that server overload message lately also.