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Also of interest is the "Harvard Dialect Survey" [1], which gives direct questions and highlights the regional variances. My favorite is "standing on line" vs
by andrewla 9y ago
Also of interest is the "Harvard Dialect Survey" [1], which gives direct questions and highlights the regional variances. My favorite is "standing on line" vs "standing in line" -- I had never even heard the "on line" variant until I moved to NYC, where it is ubiquitous.
Apparently now there's the "THE CAMBRIDGE ONLINE SURVEY OF WORLD ENGLISHES" [2], apparently by the same individual, but I've only just started looking at it.
[1] http://dialect.redlog.net/maps.html http://dialect.redlog.net/maps.html
[2] http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/ http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/
- arethuza 9y ago"Do you say pop or soda?" There is no option for "ginger".... not impressed ;-)
- smcl 9y agoI've also heard coke or irn bru being called "juice" :D
- ethbro 9y agoWhere uses "ginger"? That's a new one for me.
- maxerickson 9y agoI don't know if it is what the other poster is talking about but Michigan is weird in that a relatively large number of people drink ginger ale as a soft drink, particularly Vernors.
- RightMillennial 9y agoJust for the record to prevent any potential confusion: we Michiganders don't call pop "ginger". We do like our ginger ale though (particularly Vernors, but Canada Dry isn't bad).
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoFor a very long time, I thought "ginger" was something used in England for the most part instead of the US. I don't know where they say it regularly in the US, though. I'm now curious too.
- jamienicol 9y agoIn Scotland. Where the most popular soft drink, Irn Bru, is a bright orange colour. We also use the word "juice", which I feel reflects badly on our diet.
- ethbro 9y agoI've had it. You can usually get it in the US in the "Ethnic Food" aisles at reasonably-sized grocery stores. Aside from being orange, I don't have recollections of a very gingery flavor tho...
- lucozade 9y agoNormal Irn Bru is just made from sugar and rust (OK, ammonium ferric citrate if you're being picky) so it doesn't taste like ginger. I do recall there being a "spicy" variant a few years ago that did taste a bit like ginger but, as I can't stand Irn Bru at the best of times, I don't recall the details. Source: married to a Scot that basically lives off the stuff. Bit surprised she isn't magnetic.