Teeter Totter Vs Seesaw Analysis

Finally, the last set of words had the least amount of different responses. The question was “What do you call the piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats on the ends?” Unsurprisingly, this was the most answered question of the three, while the other two had the space left blank or answered question mark. Being born and raised in the Northwest Missouri area, I personally have only heard people refer to it as a seesaw. It’s intresting to see that seesaw had a little less then 400, while teeter totter broke over 600. Keeping in mind this survery started on a college campus in the Northwest area, it shows that sometimes a certain words do not define a region but can at the same time. This question is the best one to see if there is any form of isogloss since there is only two answers given.
Discussion
This suggests that though it is more common to say teeter totter, 393 people still said the word to describe the playground equipment was seesaw. Looking past this, the three word sets surveyed had a good number of multiple terms, examples being pop and soda or dinner and supper. There will always things that can be described with multiple terms, showed by the array of different responses given in both study 1 and 2. For example, the question of the person who thinks of himself being better it had ten total answers. These included rude, mean, and stuck up, which all showed up multiple times but were not as frequents as words like arrogant and