Re: new interactive online dialect survey

Bert Vaux wrote...

> 3. The questions are designed to be relevant to speakers of 
> English
> worldwide, not just in the United States.

Designed badly, then, in my view. Most of the questions seem to 
relate to purely American linguistic oddities. I do hope the author 
will consider a similar geographical survey of quirks in British 
English - "What is your normal greeting on meeting an acquaintance? 
Hello, Na'then, Eyup" or "Does your pronunciation of 'scone' [a 
variety of bun] rhyme with 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?"
-- 
Noel