Dialect survey

I took this dialect survey today; it asks you to tell how you would pronounce a word, or what term you would use for a certain phenomenon, such as what you call it when an auto accident on the highway slows down traffic not because it’s blocking lanes but because drivers are slowing down to view it. In Chicago, we call this a “gaper’s delay.” I don’t think that’s prevalent usage in most of the rest of the US.

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