Aschmann's map of North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns is an enormous labor of love. The accompanying information about individual spoken traits adds details that enrich the maps. But my favorite part may be the close-up map of New Orleans that shows more distinct dialects inside those levees than in the entrety of the American West. I have been a sucker for this sort of stuff for years, including the old Joshua Katz maps and the Harvard dialect surveys.
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