Spencer Greenhalgh likes RSS and thinks you're great for using ithttps://spencergreenhalgh.com/tags/dialects/recent posts from spencergreenhalgh.comHugoenFri, 04 Sep 2026 12:30:38 -0400<link>https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-09-04-nursery-utah/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:30:38 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2026-09-04-nursery-utah/</guid><description> <p>Wait, is there a distinctively Mormon way of pronouncing &ldquo;nursery&rdquo;? I feel like this dialect quiz is overemphasizing patterns (my &ldquo;most like&rdquo; is ~55% and my &ldquo;least like&rdquo; ~45%, which doesn&rsquo;t seem enough to assign a location), but I would accept this particular tell.</p> <p><img src="https://spencergreenhalgh.com/2026-09-04-nursery-Utah.JPEG" alt="Results of a dialect quiz, reading “Answers that point most strongly to Utah: the ’s’ in nursery.”"></p> </description><summary>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.</summary></item><item><title/><link>https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-09-04-almond-dialect/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:18:10 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2026-09-04-almond-dialect/</guid><description> <p>Today is the first day I&rsquo;ve ever had to think about how I pronounce the word &ldquo;almond,&rdquo; and it&rsquo;s not how I expected.</p> <p><img src="https://spencergreenhalgh.com/2026-09-04-almond-dialect.JPEG" alt="screenshot from a dialect quiz asking how I pronounce “almond”"></p> </description><summary>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.</summary></item></channel></rss>