These Maps Prove Americans Speak Totally Different Versions Of The English Language

American English dialects and pronunciation have been a point of interest from coast to coast among linguists for years. The idea first appeared in mainstream culture in 1937, when George and Ira Gershwin's song "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off," was performed by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in the film "Shall We Dance." In 1999, the Harvard Dialect Survey, a research project conducted by Professor Bert Vaux, used a series of questions, to collect information about what terms, word pairs and so...