My results were about right: Yonkers (NY), NY City, and Newark/Paterson, NJ (I went to Rutgers-Newark for my doctoral degree). It was interesting to me to learn about the various expressions used around the country associated with the question "What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?" In Cuba (and Spain?) we say that the devil's daughter is getting married. Elsewhere in Latin America I understand that one might say that a witch (perhaps also a widow or an old woman) is getting married. One myth I have heard is that any marriage that takes place under such weather conditions will be problematic.
Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol DeVolder" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 6:50:08 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Language and Dialect I was Aurora, Rockford, or Toledo. Squarely in the Midwest, where I was born and raised. On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ken Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/24/2013 1:15 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: > >> I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems >> experienced on the ACA site. :-) >> >> I also adopted Jeff's strategy of selecting responses based on choices >> I would have made growing up rather than usages I know about based on >> where I now live. I could probably manipulate choices to locate myself >> elsewhere. But I've already spent too much time on that site! >> >> So the site placed me squarely (and correctly) in Detroit. (The night >> before Halloween question is an easy give-away.) >> >> My secondary cities reveal much about my years living in the south. >> >> My daughter's map was interesting. Between listening to me, growing up >> in Pensacola, grad school in the Midwest, and four long-term >> residencies in France, her map is quite ambiguous and located her in >> three cities where she has never spent more than 3 months. It thinks >> she is a Washington, D.C. / Baltimore girl. :-) >> >> Claudia >> >> > The program placed me in Worcester MA, Boston MA, or New York City, which > I hear is located in the state of New York. > > (I find the latter odd because I don't know of a Tennesee City or a North > Carolina City or a South Carolina City. And I thought Southern naming > conventions were repetitive. But I digress.) > > Interestly, my daughter was identified as being from either Boston, > Worcester, or Springfield MA. > > Ken > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] > Professor > Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 > USA > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920. > a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=32154 > or send a blank email to leave-32154-177920.a45340211ac7929163a02162444433 > [email protected] > -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1133043.af3ec43309a63197bc82eb6702801542&n=T&l=tips&o=32155 or send a blank email to leave-32155-1133043.af3ec43309a63197bc82eb6702801...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32171 or send a blank email to leave-32171-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
