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the democratic masses consider "chili" to be a soup with beans

sorry Texas, the mass’ usage dictates it’s ‘correct’

I'll dig it up bit a prof. From Nebraska studies dialects in the U.S. and he created a map w sample audio of about every dialect.   It looks like a weather map w isobars.  It's awesome.    

There is great convergence of dialects here in the lower Midwest, Ohio River Valley which makes sense.   I hear quite a bit of variance here in central IN.

The dialects in Maine are quite extreme, speaking of Queens and Old English.

My favorite Wisconsin expressionism, since most everybody knows about 'bubblers',  'I'm going to go over by Dave's house.'  When you intend to go to Dave's house.

Runner up: 'borrow me $20'.

That may be true, and they may like each other and enjoy whatever it is they do down there, but they're not at all interested in debate.

Haha - Palabra a tu mamá!

There's a running thread over there entirely committed to tearing down a nonsense argument "about what people who accept evolution believe." Except, it's constructed to be circular and stupid. And the thread's participants have thoroughly enjoyed pointing out how the thing that was intentionally made to look circular and stupid is ... circular and stupid.

For those who haven't seen it, it's born of an article touting this as a strong statement of evolution being logically fallacious:


Except:
(1) "Survival of the fittest" isn't even part of the modern parlance, because survival is only one aspect of selection
Even then:
(2) The evolutionary meaning of fitness is pretty specific and ignored by this (reproductive output for a given genetic variant)

It is fun.

Here's a link to this funhouse of examples and tidbits devoted to dialects in the U.S.    While it isn't scentific per se, its the best thing I've seen on the subject.  He keeps it relatively current.  I love the ancillary information and links he provides.
Rick Aschmann (I guess it is his wife from NE, not certain of his background).  
Dialect Map and assorted fun

I sent it to my wife, very cool. Gotta love that Pittsburgh is basically circled as its own thing, linguistically separate from its surroundings. 

Terry Bowden was a classmate, one year ahead of me, but I didn't know him. I believe Terry played at WVU, and so maybe the Bowdens got part of that dialect at WVU?

I see the terms "dominate" and "dominant" misused, a lot.  I find that extremely annoying.