Map that breaks down how different we all speak

This is pretty damn cool!

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#

 

I was looking at this earlier, here's the breakdown for Oregon.

There are several that I don't pronounce the most popular way here, and most of them are because my parents are both from Tennessee. I've always found this kind of stuff really interesting.

 

What the hell is a "drinking fountain"? Do ya'll have something coming out of them that's not water?

I still fall into the trap of calling soda's "cokes,"... I'm just so used to growing up hearing, "what kinda coke do you want?"

One that I didn't see on here is the pronunciation of "water." It might be very regionally specific, but one of my fraternity brothers, from Delaware, used to always pronounce water as "wooder." Never heard anyone pronounce it that way, but the dude thought we were all crazy for calling it "water"...

 

we say wah-der

 

The map is kinda dumb. Shows people in SA Texas have have never heard the word Bowie, yet there is a statue of him in front of the Alamo where he died.

 

It is odd how a lot of people in the south say "coke" for any soft drink. I call it pop

 

We have Bubbler's too!

 

In Houston, I hear Bubbler all the time for drinking fountains

 

I love accents!

 

People from DC call it "WOR-TER"

 

One that wasn't on there was creek. A bunch of the people I knew when I lived in upstate NY called it a crick. First time I heard that I had to clue what they were talking about.

 

Basically, we say everything correctly in Oregon, and everyone else is wrong.

 

10. creek (a small body of running water)
a. as in "see" (82.27%)
b. as in "sit" (5.26%)
c. I use both interchangeably (9.97%)
e. I use both, but they mean two different things (please state how they differ in the comments box) (2.49%)