Pronunciation of Various Words by Geographic Location

[TJ in Oregon]

This page has some really cool maps for the geographic distribution for pronunciation of different words and different names to describe the same thing (eg. car-mel vs carra-mel):

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#the-pronunciation-of-caramel-starts-disregarding-vowels-once-you-go-west-of-the-ohio-river-1

[ilikeverin]

It's so cute when non-linguists discover sociolinguistics!

[Associate Justice PiT]

     So I support the prevailing opinion in my area on 16 of the 22 issues.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Not surprisingly, I must have picked up some of my accent from my dad, since I pronounce "been" as /bɛn/.

[Serenity Now]

Very interesting maps - although I don't know anything about the data source.

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#the-pronunciation-of-caramel-starts-disregarding-vowels-once-you-go-west-of-the-ohio-river-1

Edit: Post merged into this thread to avoid duplication - muon2

[politicallefty]

That's actually very interesting. I knew some of those differences already, but some of those are quite new to me. Those maps would make some interesting polls here.