[Poll:] Dialects, word patterns and lingusitic shift
There's a dialect meme (what do I call things) doing the rounds that I'm finding quite interesting, I've seen answers in Aussie, New Orleans, Yorksher, London and Real Places (ie Devon). So I thought I'd compile the common answers into a poll (linguistic shifts interest me). As always, if you don't have a Livejournal account you can login and vote with any OpenID, which everyone's got these days. So, without further ado...
Poll Dialect meme: What do you call things?Huge bunch of sources for some of those questions ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and some of the differences and similarities are strange. Yorkshire is, from what I can tell, more "different" than most of the other places, Londoners and Devonshire folk speak more similarly to USians and Aussies thanthey do to, supposedly, fellow English peeps. Well, God's Own Country and all that. I still cause confusion calling cakes cakes and dinner dinner (seriously, the word for lunch is dinner ? How does that work?). Ah well, have fun voting y'all.
[*] Two different people who I'm sure don't read each other did the same joke for that one, just for different countries.
Off out now, discovering the joys of Bradford nightlife. Wish me luck.
Poll Dialect meme: What do you call things?Huge bunch of sources for some of those questions ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and some of the differences and similarities are strange. Yorkshire is, from what I can tell, more "different" than most of the other places, Londoners and Devonshire folk speak more similarly to USians and Aussies thanthey do to, supposedly, fellow English peeps. Well, God's Own Country and all that. I still cause confusion calling cakes cakes and dinner dinner (seriously, the word for lunch is dinner ? How does that work?). Ah well, have fun voting y'all.
[*] Two different people who I'm sure don't read each other did the same joke for that one, just for different countries.
Off out now, discovering the joys of Bradford nightlife. Wish me luck.