Oct 15, 2020
xkcd does dialect quizzes
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xkcd does dialect quizzes
Dialect survey: What do you call the bread-toasting appliance with a door and rack as opposed to one with a slot to put bread in
"Loud Box"
"Chicago-style oven"
"Breadburner"
"Fake toaster"
"Electric heater"
"Kitchen circuit breaker"
"Hellermetallofen" or "Hell-metal oven"
"Dinging oven" or "Dinger"
I do not distinguish between the two because a door is just a really wide slot
I do not distinguish between the two for other reasons
I am not familiar with this appliance
"Microwave"
No "other" option. If you do not use any of these terms, pick the one you've heard other people use the most.
Obligatory "reblog for bigger sample size" message here
SODA/POP/COKE from Atlantic Video
A visual remix of the famous 2003 Harvard Dialect Survey, which maps out the various dialects of American speech.
Read the full article on the film here: theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/11/soda-vs-pop-vs-coke-mapping-how-americans-talk/281808/
To delve deeper into dialects, visit the original survey here: .uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
You can also check out Joshua Katz's version of the dialect maps here: .ncsu.edu/~jakatz2/project-dialect.html
I went on a little too long. And yes I know I look like femme!Snape.
Also I'm not typing out the survey because I'm lazy and am now on a different compy so I lost my copy. Um, but yeah. I want all my followers to do this because I want to heeeeeeaaaaar you.