[Poll:] Dialects, word patterns and lingusitic shift

[matgb]

There's a dialect meme (what do I call things) doing the rounds that I'm finding quite interesting, I've seen answers in Aussie, New Orleans, Yorksher, London and Real Places (ie Devon). So I thought I'd compile the common answers into a poll (linguistic shifts interest me). As always, if you don't have a Livejournal account you can login and vote with any OpenID, which everyone's got these days. So, without further ado...
[Poll #1169647]Huge bunch of sources for some of those questions (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and some of the differences and similarities are strange. Yorkshire is, from what I can tell, more "different" than most of the other places, Londoners and Devonshire folk speak more similarly to USians and Aussies thanthey do to, supposedly, fellow English peeps. Well, God's Own Country and all that. I still cause confusion calling cakes cakes and dinner dinner (seriously, the word for lunch is dinner ? How does that work?). Ah well, have fun voting y'all.

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[*] Two different people who I'm sure don't read each other did the same joke for that one, just for different countries.

Off out now, discovering the joys of Bradford nightlife. Wish me luck.

Comments

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

"The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening" is confusing to me, because most of the answers seem to be different things which I would refer to by the words listed here. I chose conservatory because there is one in my grandparents' house. No one sits in there in the evenings, though, because it's bloody cold. Apart from my mum, who is exiled there to smoke.

[matgb]

Aye, the whole thing was written by a USian trying to be inclusive but failing—see also breakfast item with syrup. Most of my poll options came from SB whose answer was what mine would've been.