What are isoglosses? These are lines that separate specific linguistic features of a language. Some examples of these in the United States are:
1. Bucket and pail
2. Pop, soda, soda pop, soft drink, Coke, fizzies, or tonics
3. Subsandwich, hero, hoagie, grinder, torpedo
4. Boulevard, grass plot, devil strip, neutral ground, treebelt, berm
5. Sneakers, tennis shoes, gym shoes
6. You guys, y'all, yous
1. Bucket and pail
2. Pop, soda, soda pop, soft drink, Coke, fizzies, or tonics
3. Subsandwich, hero, hoagie, grinder, torpedo
4. Boulevard, grass plot, devil strip, neutral ground, treebelt, berm
5. Sneakers, tennis shoes, gym shoes
6. You guys, y'all, yous
I am using soft drink isoglosses because they have the most information.
This is a map showing the distribution of the different word usage to identify a soft drink. The three shown are Pop, a "Coke", and Soda.
http://www.lostinidaho.me/2012/01/most-argued-debate-of-our-time-soda-vs.html
This is a map showing the distribution of the different word usage to identify a soft drink. The three shown are Pop, a "Coke", and Soda.
http://www.lostinidaho.me/2012/01/most-argued-debate-of-our-time-soda-vs.html
I have found that the word soda came first, and it comes from the "soda water" they created to make pop in 1809. Since then they have developed easier ways to make pop, but areas still call it soda because of this. The word pop came later, most likely due to the "pop" sound that soft drinks used to make when you opened them. A coke in the southern states is used to describe any soft drink, not just a Coka Cola. This is most likely caused by the Coka Cola plant in Georgia, considering that most of the areas that use "Coke" are in southern U.S., as is Georgia.
This video gives a lot of great examples of some objects that have many different names. A lot of them have one name that seems to dominate most of the U.S. which supports my thought of one word finally taking over all of the others, but a lot of the objects have many small areas that call it a certain name due to the locations having a common characteristic, such as developement in the cities, or location in the United states, su
This topic relates to Human Geography in such that chapter 5 deals with
language. This topic looks at the different distributions of words within an
area that speaks a common language. It looks at what causes diversity between a
language, and where these differences take place. Isogloss is also a vocabulary
word.
I chose this topic because I am interested in why
we still use these different words today, and why one doesn't just completely
take over the other ones. You would think that after a long amount of time that
as one becomes increasingly more said throughout the U.S. that the other words
would disappear, but there are still major areas of each word that still say
it.
language. This topic looks at the different distributions of words within an
area that speaks a common language. It looks at what causes diversity between a
language, and where these differences take place. Isogloss is also a vocabulary
word.
I chose this topic because I am interested in why
we still use these different words today, and why one doesn't just completely
take over the other ones. You would think that after a long amount of time that
as one becomes increasingly more said throughout the U.S. that the other words
would disappear, but there are still major areas of each word that still say
it.