https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    You also have the short-a split so that words like “had” and “ran” aren’t rhymes with “bad” and “man”,

    this is wrong

    • gobble_ghoul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Feel free to elaborate, but having two phonemes in words with historic short A is a common feature in the area. Doesn’t mean every speaker has it.