Below are posts associated with the “dialects” tag.


Wait, is there a distinctively Mormon way of pronouncing “nursery”? I feel like this dialect quiz is overemphasizing patterns (my “most like” is ~55% and my “least like” ~45%, which doesn’t seem enough to assign a location), but I would accept this particular tell.

Results of a dialect quiz, reading “Answers that point most strongly to Utah: the ’s’ in nursery.”


Today is the first day I’ve ever had to think about how I pronounce the word “almond,” and it’s not how I expected.

screenshot from a dialect quiz asking how I pronounce “almond”