I know it as devils night too. Probably because of cable TV stations imported from Detroit and buffalo as I was growing up.
Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >Even based out of Chicago, it correctly pegged me with Detroit, Grand >Rapids, and Milwaukee. I'm willing to guess that anyone who answers the >night before Halloween question as "Devil's Night" is an almost >automatic >lock for the state of Michigan (or, according to the lower map, >possibly >Pittsburgh). > >It also correctly pegged my wife with Aurora, Rockford, and Milwaukee, >but >*not* Chicago, because she grew up in the suburbs and didn't pick up >the >classical Chicago tone. > > >On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:45 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Many here will have seen that the NYT has published today an >interactive >> version of a sample of questions from the "Harvard Dialect Survey". >The >> entire survey has 122 questions (you can see all of them at a link at >the >> end of the survey), the NYT has selected around 10 or so. >> >> I am suspicious that they may have cheated a bit using location data >from >> my sign-in - two of my three most similar cities are within 100 miles >of >> where I have lived the last 25 years, and one is the closest city to >me >> with more than 100,000 people in it. None of the cities are within >400 >> miles of where I grew up prior to going to college (southern >California), >> which would seem to be a big influence on speech patterns. >> >> If anyone has taken or decides to take it, I would be interested in a >> quick report on how close it got to identifying your city, and if it >was >> closer to where you grew up or currently live (if different): >> >> >> >http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131222 >> >> TV tie-in: Television is one of the main culprits for the break-down >in >> regional dialects in the United States. I grew up in Los Angeles with >a >> family of recently transplanted New Yorkers, who all had strong >regional >> accents and speech patterns, and who were very aware of how >differently >> Californians talked. SNL has a recurring sketch about The >Californians that >> seems to self-consciously make fun of the assumption that everyone in >SoCal >> has internalized the affluent Anglo subculture. The larger truth is >> probably that we are all Californians these days, or at least the >flat >> California sound is what gets repeated in most mass media. Of course >if you >> walk the streets of Los Angeles (well, few people actually do that, >but if >> you walk the shopping malls or beaches of Southern California) the >accents >> and dialects you will hear are anything but flat. >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >-- >-- >TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected] >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
