Stumbled on an interesting infographic compiled by the Statistics Dept. at NC State.
Included are 122 regionally-variant phrases or pronunciations.
My favorite: What’s your generic term for a sweetened, carbonated beverage?
Before glancing at the chart, what’s your answer?
Click here or the other 121 expressions and pronunciations.
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If you do any banking online, you’ve probably gotten that message at one time or another.
Maybe it was when you got a new computer … or, when you used a friend’s computer to pay a bill.
You probably didn’t think much of it.
You just answered the security questions and paid your bill.
Bet you didn’t stop to wonder: How did Bank of Boise know that this wasn’t my usual computer.
Well, now that I’ve aroused you curiosity, the answer is ….
You’re computer has its own distinctive “device fingerprints” that make it identifiable on the Net as your computer.
I worry about stuff like this. So, I’d thought about this one.
And, my thinking was wrong.
Here’s what’s going on …
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