Speaking American : how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide /

Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013, Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became th...

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Main Author: Katz, Josh, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
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Online Access:Dialect quiz
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