North American English Dialects.

June 9, 2019 by 4 Comments

I actually posted Rick Aschmann’s dialect map back in 2011, but although it’s just as ugly there’s plenty of new information, and I figure a lot of people didn’t see it back then, so here it is again; besides the map in its various forms, there are a Guide to the Sounds of North American English and Special Interest and Historical Articles (e.g., The Cot-Caught Merger and The Father-Bother Distinction; scroll around the page and who knows what you’ll find. Thanks, Terry!

Comments

  1. Athel Cornish-Bowden says
    June 12, 2019 at 6:02 am

    “Just as ugly” sums it up. The author could learn something (a lot, really) from Edward Tufte.

  2. languagehat says
    July 25, 2026 at 4:28 pm

    There is now apparently an interactive version where you can click on things to add or remove layers and zoom in to particular areas; Matt Forrest talks about it with great enthusiasm and shows images of it in a two-minute video (YouTube short, Instagram, TikTok). But I can’t find an actual link to the actual thing. Thanks for the tip, Ariel!

  3. Y says
    July 25, 2026 at 11:32 pm

    Here (from the pinned comment to the YT).

  4. languagehat says
    July 26, 2026 at 7:41 am

    Thanks!

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