This exercise is designed to help you crystallize your thoughts on how American English is spoken around the country. Here is a map of the United States divided up into its major dialect regions.

This is an update of a post originally written by Walter Hickey.

English and Spanish are the most common languages spoken in the U.S. but where do the rest rank? Newsweek has mapped tongues from other motherlands, and German comes third. In total, 13 states ...

In a country as vast as the United States, you're hardly ever going to ... some of the starkest regional divisions in American English, from vocabulary to pronunciation. Graphic artist Josh ...