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I’m from the green zone but it should be blue honestly. Where even is the blue on this map?
There's a tiny community in Wisconsin that has the Delco accent. It's there.
It's spelled wooder.
You can't see it because this is a photo from a book that was released back in like 2013 with a ton of various images that more better utilized the colors.
Example:
OP's image must have been stolen and reuploaded again and again and again to get us where we are today.
Not just that, there is a neat quiz that tries to predict where you are from, based on how you pronounce various words!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html
(I see that it is now behind a paywall... 😞)
Why is blue in the key when there's no blue on the map?
Probably a city that is too hard to make out with so few pixels. I would assume Boston, because it would be Boston.
Or maybe they included it because some areas have marry pronounced differently, but forgot to include one for Mary being pronounced differently.