As with all countries, large OR small, there are going to be variations in dialect and pronunciation. Given its size and history, one would expect the US to have some pretty fantastic ones. And it does!

PhD (Statistics) student Joshua Katz hasjust published a fantastic set of data visualisations from a linguistic survey of how Americans pronounce words.

You can check out the rest, which look at words like ‘been’, ‘carmel/caramel’, and a whole bunch more. You can see the full set on Kats’z site. Or, if that’s down, you can also see 22 of them here.

Which one’s yer favourite?

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Where does my blogging seem to have gone? Well, I still do some for my motorbike blog, but most of my activity these days takes the form of microblogging - on Twitter and G+ (and the occasional public post on Facebook). Or being obstreperous in comments, of course :P