Dialect atlas

Sources

Every finding on the map comes from one of these. The ones below are stand-ins until real sources are added.

  1. Sample

    Reference
    Not yet checked against a real source. Some rows are placeholder.
    Data collected
    2026
    Used for
    865 findings about 141 places and accents, on 18 sounds: put · putt; nurse · square; pull · pool; wine · whine; think → fink; butter → bu'er; house → 'ouse; milk → miwk; bath; cot · caught; pin · pen; Mary · marry · merry; horse · hoarse; bat → be-at; bed → bay-ed; writer · rider; car → cah; father · bother
  2. Sample B

    Reference
    Made-up older rows to show sources disagreeing. Not real data.
    Data collected
    1990 to 1995
    Used for
    138 findings about 64 places and accents, on 13 sounds: put · putt; nurse · square; pull · pool; wine · whine; think → fink; butter → bu'er; house → 'ouse; milk → miwk; bath; cot · caught; Mary · marry · merry; horse · hoarse; car → cah