regional accents in the US: a map

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Spurned into action by another thread, I was searching for information about various American regional accents. I found this website which seems to be an ongoing study (not sure, haven’t fully checked out the site yet) http://babel.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

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http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/

A related link (The survey is actually very interesting to take, and you can always save your answers and come back later to finish it)

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http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_15.html
shows the results of the mary/merry/marry question that was in GQ a while back. I’m really surprised that only 18.91% of us hear them three different sounding words.
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