(MENAFNEditorial) (EMAILWIRE.COM, July 05, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- A new study highlights the differences that are found in dialect across the united states. It also offers insight into how Utah has its own accent.
North Carolina State University student Joshua Katz worked through linguistic data that had been previously compiled by Dr. Bert Vaux of Cambridge University in order to determine particularly pronunciation differences between regions.
Vaux utilized 120-question survey that included questions from pronunciation of caramel to the term TP-ing or Toilet papering when referring to the common childhood prank.
"Dr. Vaux's maps showed each response as a single color-coded point, so you could see individual instances of each answer," Katz said. "I wondered if there was a way to take the existing data and create maps that gave a more complete picture of national dialect differences."
The project noted statistical algorithms to weigh the overall pronunciation inclinations. There were obvious differing qualities when comparing east to west coasts, as well as north-to-south variances. However, the finding also noted a particular accent found in the Utah region that was differing from almost all other sectors in its pronunciation variance. Utahns felt strongly about the second syllable of cauliflower as well an 'I' that sounds less like a hard 'e' sound.
Utah natives also were strong partial to the 'ai' in Craig being pronounced with a soft E sound, rather than an 'a' sound.
Miracle was another word that Utah natives felt strongly about, giving it the rhyming quality to knit rather than to near, which the rest of the nation predominantly disagreed with.
Utah navies also felt the word soda was usage over pop compared to the Southwest, but were not as adamant as other disagreements. Nearly 47% of all Utahns believed soda was correct, while 41% noted it as pop. The natives were more partisan about caramel, which they pronounce car-mel and removal of the third, middle, syllable.
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