What would you call this man?     Honestly, if you haven’t seen
the Business Insider slideshow based on Joshua Katz’s
visualizations of Professor Bert Vaux and Scott Golder’s
linguistic survey, you must. Your friends have been sharing it
on their Facebook walls for a week. We’re talking about it on
Above the Law. It’s a Friday afternoon in the summer. Put down
your derivatives agreement and just click on it.  The most
fascinating thing to me is that apparently most of this country
thinks that “merry,” “Mary,” and “marry” all sound the same.
What the hell is wrong with you? Merry is a Hobbit. Mary is a
virgin. Marry is what happens when you stop being a virgin who
knows the names of all the Hobbits.  I was less surprised by the
lawyer map. I already knew that most people think a lawyer looks
and sounds like Sam Waterston but some people think a lawyer
looks and sounds like Matthew McConaughey:  What’s weird is that
the “law-yer” people intensifies not just as you get more South,
it intensifies as you get into