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‘Soda, pop, or coke’ and more

‘Soda, pop, or coke’ and more

If you thought the “soda, pop, or coke” map was interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out “Beyond ‘Soda, Pop, or Coke,’” a project by Joshua Katz at North Carolina State University. Katz has compiled oodles of statistics on regional dialects and differences across the US and provided maps for each breakdown. Most … Continue reading »

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What is ‘pied type’?

typestack-smpi, pied, pieing: (Printing) To put or spill into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a font or form. Metaphorically, to pi content, as in a multi-topic blog with no particular focus or theme.

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