SRoper
Puritan Board Graduate
A while ago I found a site that maps the results of the Harvard Dialect Survey. When visiting it again, I found that there was a new link that takes you to an interactive survey that will produce your own dialect heat map that shows how likely it is that someone would answer the survey the same way you do. I got Cleveland, Akron, and Grand Rapids as my cities--I'm from the Cleveland area.
My wife's quiz was less decisive--it put her anywhere in the Midwest from central Ohio through Nebraska (she's was born in central Ohio, but spent much of her youth in Florida).
Best thing I learned from this survey is that on the East Coast they call a drive-through liquor store a "brew-through." Amazing!
My wife's quiz was less decisive--it put her anywhere in the Midwest from central Ohio through Nebraska (she's was born in central Ohio, but spent much of her youth in Florida).
Best thing I learned from this survey is that on the East Coast they call a drive-through liquor store a "brew-through." Amazing!