Here “bus” is pronounced like “buzz” and I didn’t realise it was weird until I went down to Devon and it was a dead giveaway that I’m a Brummie lol

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    True, I’m just used to hearing either Cray-on or Cran (like cranberries)

    Also I know I struggle with colors sometimes… But I don’t see green or yellow on that map, just red and blue… Is that just me haha

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      Green is in the northwest corner of Wisconsin.

      Yellow is honestly a terrible color choice for this map, because the pronunciation isn’t truly regional. I think it’s clustered along the edges of a few different red areas, mostly on the east coast and some Southern areas.

      I actually think the author’s note about it being a merging of pronunciation makes sense, because I was raised in a transitional Southern dialect but my parents both have an east Midland dialect

      https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap