notanightlight:

selfeditneeded:

bonjas:

thesociologicalcinema:

What do Americans say?

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

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

Actually very accurate, and yinx is a thing I hear

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

Tags: linguistics this is actually fascinating and explains a great deal of my weird switchups in language example: i will use 'trash can' and 'garbage can' interchangeably also 'garage sale' and 'yard sale' but i'll die on the hill of 'soda' and 'y'all' and 'caramel/carmel' are two different things explanation: my dad grew up in the south my mom grew up in pennsylvania and i grew up in minnesota