North American English Dialects

Oh, this is fun! Over here, you can find a map of American English dialects! You click on a place close to where you grew up and see what people in your area sound like. If you can't find your particular linguistic weirdness, you can contact Rick Aschmann, the man behind the project, and send him a sample! Neat! Aschmann says:

This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting to a lot of people. Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. 

I can't find mine, because it doesn't really exist. I was raised in Virginia, New England, and Colorado by parents from New Jersey (Dad) and Kansas (Mom) and have lived in a bunch of other states all over the place. Everywhere I've ever lived, I've been told I sound like I'm from somewhere else...because I have a sort of Mid-Atlantic/Western/Southern hodgepodge and it makes me a kind of linguistic alien.

I've noticed everyone else's crazy dialects, though, so I'm having fun exploring. Hey, Intrepid Companion: check and see if you can find anyone pronouncing "museum" as "myoo-ZAY-um."