MetaFilter posts tagged with english and usa

Wet your whistle on these

Wordshore — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:37:42 -0800

What ho, dearest cousins in the Western Colonies. You appear to be increasingly using the vernacular of the mother country. Splendid! A few more examples to assist [1] [2] [3] [4]. Toodle pip.

Local Twitter Slang, And All That Jawn

reenum — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:58:32 -0800

The Awl takes a look at how Twitter has allowed local slang to go global, and the unhappiness this causes for some.

Dialecty goodness

stopgap — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:03:35 -0800

Do you speak American? The companion website to a PBS series, full of interactive language and dialect tools. You can map your attitudes about regional correctness, guess the speaker's home, learn about American varieties, track the history of certain words, hear samples of regional dialects, and more.
Further reading: Dialect Map of American English [image], Slanguage's local terms, and this collection of local phrases.
Previously on MetaFilter: The Dialect Survey (and results), The Speech Accent Archive, Pop vs. Soda.

m.polo — Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:05:31 -0800

When colleagues in countries outside the U.S. attempt to get me to understand how the rest of the world could loathe us quite as much as they do, this is what they are talking about. "Well, shee-oot, they don' even speak English down there, howthehell they gonna know them tires is not safe? Just slap a little ol' label on 'em and say they're safe.... Oughta be good 'nough!"