

Bernard Parish, reflecting the fact that apparently all of St.īernard Parish has the same dialect. Adj.Īdjusted the main map to match the New Orleans inset in its southeast cornerĪnd added St. (Earlier I had simply not shown it in thisĪrea, but the result was confusing even to me, so I put it in.) I alsoĪdjusted a few lines running across Hudson Bay. Native French speakers do not typically have the Canadian raising, I have nowĮxplicitly shown the pink Canadian-raising line as excluding theįrench-speaking area in Canada. New!Īdjusted the name of the Mat-Su Valley dialect in Alaska from Mat-Su Valley to Mat-Su Valley (North Central) to better clarify its status, as an Island of North Central in Alaska. Butĭid quite a bit of cosmetic adjustment to place name positioning and other

Surge of e-mail, so I have doubts of ever being able to answer it all. Time to time this page gets posted to another popular blog, and I get a new Unfortunately, my life is always very busy,Īnd I can only dedicate a small portion of my time to this, so I have troubleĮven keeping up with current correspondence about this page. Thanks to all of you who have written expressingĪppreciation for the page! I don’t promise to respond to every e-mail, but IĪm still trying to answer all those who sent in a sample or other More huge surges recently, one since late April, 2013, and one the result of this article on May 9, making me doubt if there is any Number of web forums about it, but suddenly it has happened again, with two Popularity of this site over the 2010 Christmas break, due to a Worked through well over half of the e-mails I had received since the huge jump in This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting toĪ lot of people. However, I find that some of their samplesĭefinitely do not represent the local dialect! 26-Dec.-2012 Results at: /~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects. With 3903 total responses in December 2012. Help, and some of you helped with this survey. North American English dialects using a web-based survey. A group of linguists had been gathering data on
