1. Dialects Found in US English
Is regionalism connected to the pronunciation of words in the United States? The following will hopefully answer this question.
-results used from Dr. Bert Vaux’s Dialect Survey
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2. Can you detect any regional differences with this word?
How do you say the word aunt?
“ah”nt
“ant”
“au”nt (as in ‘caught’)
1. aunt      a. [ ] as in "ah" (9.62%)      b. [ ] as in "ant" (75.15%)      c. [ ] as in "caught" (2.77%)
Can you detect any regional differences with this word?

3. Slight difference in Upper Midwest
How do you pronounce the word been?
As in “sit” (bin)
As in “see” (been)
As in “set” (ben)
a. [ ] as in "sit" (64.82%)      b. [i:] as in "see" (3.59%)      c. [ ] as in "set" (28.60%)
Slight difference in Upper Midwest

4. The first vowel in the word Florida.
“Flow” rida
“Flah” rida
“Flaw” rida
“Flore” ida
     a. [o:] as in "flow" ("flow-ri-da") (4.95%)      b. [ ] as in "ah" ("flah-ri-da") (11.37%)      c. [ ] as in "saw" ("flaw-ri-da") (7.09%)      d. [ ] as in "sore" ("flore-i-da") (73.38%)

5. How do you pronounce the word lawyer?
As in “boy” (loyer)
As in “saw” (law-yer)
a. with [ j] as in "boy" ("loyer") (72.84%)   b. with [ ] as in "saw" ("law-yer") (21.96%)
Upper Midwest? Northwest?

6. The second vowel in the word pajamas.
As in “jam” (pa-jamas)
As in “father (pa-jahmas)
 a. [ ] as in "jam" (45.92%)      b. [ ] as in "father" (51.86%)

7. Which of these terms do you prefer
for a sale of unwanted items on
your porch, in your yard, etc.? Tag sale, yard sale, garage sale, rummage sale
     a. tag sale (3.60%)      b. yard sale (36.41%)      c. garage sale (52.17%)      d. rummage sale (3.10%)       (10736 respondents)

8. What do you call the long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on?      a. sub (77.15%)      b. grinder (2.87%)      c. hoagie (6.98%)      d. hero (5.18%)      (10708 respondents)

9. 66. What do you call the miniature lobster that one finds in lakes and streams for example (a crustacean of the family Astacidae)? Crawfish. Crayfish, Crawdad
     a. crawfish (38.82%)      b. crayfish (32.45%)      e. crawdad (19.48%)        (10684 respondents)

10. 73. What is your *general* term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?
Sneakers, gym shoes, tennis shoes, other?
     a. sneakers (45.50%)       c. gymshoes (5.55%)        f. tennis shoes (41.34%)      (10722 respondents)

11. 75. What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? Shopping cart, grocery cart,
Carriage, buggy
     a. shopping cart (77.02%)      c. grocery cart (13.95%)      e. carriage (0.95%)      f. buggy (4.11%)        (10705 respondents)

12. What term do you use to refer to something that is across both streets from you at an intersection (or diagonally across from you in general)?
Kitty-corner? Anything else?
     a. kitty-corner (49.53%)      d. catty-corner (30.38%)      g. I can only use "diagonal" for this (12.31%)      (10706 respondents)

13. 77. What do you call the activity of driving around in circles in a car?
     a. doing donuts (80.71%)      b. doing cookies (1.74%)      c. whipping shitties (1.43%)      d. other (16.12%)      (10011 respondents)

14. 80. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
     a. sunshower (34.29%)      c. the devil is beating his wife (6.43%)      h. I have no term or expression for this (55.15%)        (10691 respondents)

15. 94. Do you say "frosting" or "icing" for the sweet spread one puts on a cake?
     a. frosting (32.79%)      b. icing (16.88%)      c. icing is thinner than frosting, white, and/or made of powdered sugar and milk or lemon juice (20.73%)      d. both (28.87%)        (10702 respondents)

16. Obvious regional influence?
What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school?
     a. bubbler (3.84%)      c. drinking fountain (33.16%)      d. water fountain (60.97%)      e. other (1.74%)      (10656 respondents)
Obvious regional influence?

17. 105. What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?
     a. soda (52.97%)      b. pop (25.08%)      c. coke (12.38%)      (10669 respondents)

18. What do you call the act of covering a house or area in front of a house with toilet paper?
     a. tp'ing (57.61%)      b. rolling (6.68%)      c. toilet papering (21.04%)        (10658 respondents)

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