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Thursday, March 11, 2021

One Soil Divided Yesteryear A Mutual Language


In the evening, when most of the USA is sitting downward for dinner, people inward the Midwest convey their supper instead. This is simply 1 of the many variations inward the purpose too selection of linguistic communication which is determined past times where you lot alive inward America.

Linguists at Aston University too the University of Manchester convey analysed the summit 1,000 words used inward Twitter messages. They hence used users' place information to run across how ofttimes these words are used inward each county inward the continental United States. The results of this analysis furnish an interesting insight into the regional variations inward linguistic communication purpose across the United States.

Quartz has used this analysis to practice an interesting mapped visualization of the purpose of these summit 1,000 words throughout the United States. Type a give-and-take into the Quartz Great American Word Mapper too you lot tin sentiment a heat-map of its purpose on Twitter inward each county of the USA.


The most pop interactive webpage on the New York Times website inward 2013 was How Y’all, Youse too You Guys Talk. This interactive characteristic asks a serial of questions virtually your pronunciation too purpose of for sure words.

From the answers you lot hand to the questions the NYT creates your personal dialect map. This heat-map shows you lot which areas of the USA convey a dialect like to your own. You tin besides sentiment a heat-map for each of the private questions.

The NYT interactive besides asks you lot whether you lot telephone band your even out repast 'dinner' or 'supper'. The NYT map shows rattling like results for where these words are used to the Quartz map.