Cool map of American English Dialects

[kenny]

I don't know about you, but I found this fascinating.

http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap4Right

You can click through to hear Youtube examples of regional dialects!

 

[ksinger]

If you think that's cool, then I bet you'll like this too. And somewhere in there are links to audio files of various pronunciations.

Vowel Movement - How Americans near the Great Lakes are radically changing the sound of English.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2012/08/northern_cities_vowel_shift_how_americans_in_the_great_lakes_region_are_revolutionizing_english_.html

 

[Tuckins1]

Neat!

 

[amc80]

This is really neat. I'm confused by the "On" line-
North of this line, "On" rhymes with "Don", South of this line, "On" rhymes with "Dawn"

-because I pronounce Don and Dawn the same. I'm trying to say them differently and probably sound like a crazy person to my coworkers, ha.