Map shows how to say “beer” in Europe

Posted to Maps | Tags: beer | Nathan Yau

Feòrag NicBhrìde provides a handy map on how to say beer in European countries. This is important. [via Boing Boing]

3 Comments

Jeff — July 8, 2013 at 12:46 pm

Terrible use of colors but otherwise a VERY important data set.
Henry — July 8, 2013 at 3:56 pm

Very important if you want to *write* the word for beer… But certainly a map idea whose time has come
Tim — July 30, 2013 at 4:14 am

That’s all we need to know about linguistics, right there. :)

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