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[bryant]

The Dialect Survey is about three hundred questions, so don't start unless you have time, but it's cool if you do. Perhaps more cool are the maps plotting the results in little color coded dots across the country, confirming that we New Englanders are the only people who say rotary.

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[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Rotary! Blast! I forgot that one on my list of beloved New England terms.

Do you know the etymology of "cabinet" for a Rhode Island milkshake?

[bryant]

No idea at all.

There's one rotary in the greater San Francisco area, out in the Sunset district. I used to take long diversions from my route just so I could use it, even though it was marred by explanatory signs.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Explanatory signs? Wimps! Rotaries put hair on your chest! Or is that "cause pains in your chest," I forget which. :D

[clauclauclaudia]

Start even if you don't have time, you can save partway through, that's what the registration is for.

Do they ask about "bubbler"? I haven't finished yet. :)

[enmascarado.livejournal.com]

I finally got around to it.

My favorite map the is "The City" map.

Outside of the Chicago and Boston area and a few random locales, people realize that "The City" is New York even as far away as the wrong coast. I also suspect that the Boston-area people are lieing as part of the feud they think they have.

I had too much confusion with this as my accent has so many influences (Southern, New England, New York, London, even Canadian) and is mutable. The dialect terms, as opposed to pronounciations, were usually easier.

-Dan