Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The Map Says So

In Cleveland, we don't speak Midwestern, we speak Great Lakes. At last I'm vindicated in my quest to convince Jim (who is from Miami County) that he talks funny.

Jersey people have definitely mistaken my phonemes before. I say "copy" but they hear "cappy", for example.

Although, I would take issue with the fact that the map groups South Jersey in the same dialect group as Kansas and Nebraska. Clearly the cartographer has never been to South Jersey.....

1 Comments:

Blogger Stephen said...

Ashtabula is screwed up. We seem to speak a warped mash of Midland and Great Lakes dialects as well as with shockingly increasing amounts of CANADIAN creeping in.

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