Dialect Survey Maps and Results

Below are the dialect maps, displaying what terms and pronunciations are used, and where they are used.

http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html

Some examples:

What do you call the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?

What do you call the box you bury a dead person in?

What do/did you call your maternal grandfather?

 

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Parents fake son’s death to get day off

WATERLOO, IA – Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested.

James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen’s 17-year-old son had died, police said.

Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact. 

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