Enterprise, Nevada
The Enterprise Accent
Enterprise sits inside the California dialect area, which covers California, United States. No other dialect area in the survey comes close to it.
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What people in Enterprise sound like
- “Cot” and “caught” sound the same.
- Fronted “goose” vowel — “dude”, “food”, “too”.
- Uptalk: rising pitch at the end of statements.
- Quotative “like”: “and I was like…”.
These are the markers of the California accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Enterprise has all of them — the full California profile sets out where the region varies.
How Nevada answered the Harvard Dialect Survey
The Harvard Dialect Survey, collected by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder in 2002–2003, recorded how respondents in every US state answered the same questions. These are Nevada’s answers, most common first.
| Question | Answers in Nevada |
|---|---|
| Soda, Pop or Coke? The Map of How America Orders a Fizzy Drink | soda 63% · coke 15% · pop 8% |
| Traffic Circle, Roundabout or Rotary? | roundabout 59% · traffic circle 25% · rotary 3% |
| Water Fountain, Drinking Fountain or Bubbler? | drinking fountain 51% · water fountain 46% · bubbler 0% |
| Lightning Bug or Firefly? | firefly 66% · lightning bug 9% |
| Crawfish, Crawdad or Crayfish? | crawdad 52% · crawfish 27% · crayfish 17% |
| Roly Poly or Potato Bug? | roly poly 61% · potato bug 13% |
| You Guys, Y'all or You All? | you guys 63% · y'all 11% · you all 5% |
| Kitty-Corner or Catty-Corner? | kitty-corner 62% · catty-corner 25% |
| Garage Sale or Yard Sale? | garage sale 59% · yard sale 33% |
| Tennis Shoes or Sneakers? | tennis shoes 66% · sneakers 22% |
| Trash Can or Garbage Can? | trash can 55% · garbage can 17% |
| Scratch Paper or Scrap Paper? | scratch paper 52% · scrap paper 8% |
| Frontage Road, Service Road or Access Road? | frontage road 46% · service road 14% · access road 8% |
| Caramel: Two Syllables or Three? | with 2 syllables ("car-ml") 55% · with 3 syllables ("carra-mel") 22% |
| Mischievous or Mischievious? | mischievious (4 syllables) 41% · mischievous (3 syllables) 33% |
| Rubber Band, Hair Tie or Elastic? | hair tie 37% · rubber band 29% · (hair) elastic 11% |
Data from the Harvard Dialect Survey (Bert Vaux and Scott Golder, 2002–2003), used under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence. A self-selected sample from two decades ago: how people spoke then, not a census.
Is your accent from Enterprise?
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