thesociologicalcinema

What do Americans say?

Source: Based on a survey of 350,000 Americans (x)

bonjas

according to the link, the Two vs Three means how many syllables in “caramel”

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Actually very accurate, and yinx is a thing I hear

notanightlight

Ohioans seem to use a couple of these interchangeably from what I’ve heard. At least in the bigger cities.

Source: thesociologicalcinema
linguisticsthis is actually fascinating and explains a great deal of my weird switchups in languageexample: i will use 'trash can' and 'garbage can' interchangeablyalso 'garage sale' and 'yard sale'but i'll die on the hill of 'soda' and 'y'all' and 'caramel/carmel' are two different thingsexplanation: my dad grew up in the south my mom grew up in pennsylvania and i grew up in minnesota