Thursday, June 6, 2013

Health : The Atlantic: Pecan, Caramel, Crawfish: Food Dialect Maps

Health : The Atlantic
Health news and analysis on The Atlantic.
thumbnail Pecan, Caramel, Crawfish: Food Dialect Maps
Jun 6th 2013, 14:46

Joshua Katz, a doctoral student in linguistics at N.C. State, made these excellent maps of regional dialect. The data is based on results of The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes of around 11,500 people.


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I included the crayons as a joke. Crayons are not food.

Here are the full survey results. Thanks to Josh Katz for letting us reprint his maps.

    


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