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Fun with Linguistics

One of my favorite linguistics classes back in college (yeah, I majored in the stuff) had to do with US regional variations not only in how things were pronounced but in what slang words were used to denote various products. Mark Evanier has now found a site that charts generic names for soft drinks by county. I wondered if there were any out there which chart stuff like heroes/subs/hoagies, and found this dialect survey from Harvard. (My query above is question #64.)