{"id":2087,"date":"2014-01-02T02:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T02:47:58","slug":"fun-with-regional-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/fun-with-regional-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Regional Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it over the holidays, the <em>New York Times<\/em> had a fun quiz that, based on the words you use for certain terms and how you pronounce those words, shows how you compare to people across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I took this, my most similar cities were Denver and Aurora, CO and Albuquerque, NM. Later I read that it works best if you use the words and pronunciations you grew up with. For example, while now I pronounce the stuff that\u2019s in the center of some candies \u201ccare-uh-mel,\u201d I grew up saying \u201ccar-mul.\u201d I went back and re-did the quiz, correcting that and a couple other answers. My new most similar cities? Kansas City, Overland Park, and St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Genius!<\/p>\n<p>The least similar cities are really more fun. It\u2019s amusing that a cluster of cities in New England are my least similar ones, since I LOVE speaking in a fake Boston accent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/12\/20\/sunday-review\/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=1&amp;\">How Y\u2019all, Youse and You Guys Talk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it over the holidays, the New York Times had a fun quiz that, based on the words you use for certain terms and how you pronounce those words, shows how you compare to people across the country. The first time I took this, my most similar cities were Denver and Aurora, CO and Albuquerque, NM. Later I read that it works best if you use the words and pronunciations you grew up with. For example, while now I pronounce the stuff that\u2019s in the center of some candies \u201ccare-uh-mel,\u201d I grew up saying \u201ccar-mul.\u201d I went back and re-did the quiz, correcting that and a couple other answers. My new most similar cities? Kansas City, Overland Park, and St. Louis. Genius! The least similar cities are really more fun. It\u2019s amusing that a cluster of cities in New England are my least similar ones, since I LOVE speaking in a fake Boston accent. How Y\u2019all, Youse and You Guys Talk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14369,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/14369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}