A New York City artist and computer programmer R. Luke DuBois went online to 21 dating services and searched every zip code for words that occurred more often than any others. He then put the results on a US map which appears in this month's National Geographic. Some highlights:
Minnesota: baritone, beer, cuddle, nightgown, shy.
Indiana: alcohol, Hoosier, Pacer, unemployment
Alabama: Baptist, beau, conservative, cornbread, infidelity
Utah: polygamy, serpent, silken, unfathomable, westerner
Arizona: devious, endeavor, sequin, superstition, tan, uninsured, wildflower
Washington: cheesecake, cougar, gig, hard, ideas, picky, single, wet
West Virginia: ashtray, coal, coonskin
California: acting, architecture, entertainment, gay, grass, kindness, looks, masculine, platinim, super, vegetarian, wish, yoga
From recent and immanent primary states:
Iowa: dynasty, marshmallow, osaka
New Hampshire: foliage
South Carolina: bigotry, dependable, Saskatoon
Florida: aeronautical, famous, flashy, Latino, legs, magic, retired, sunny, tanned
What, dear reader, showed up for us here in Massachusetts? Just one word.…Sox.
Take that Belichek! THE equipment truck will be leaving shortly after the Superbowl.
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