I recently did a bit of reading up on English accents, particularly accents and dialects of American English.  Being here in Texas, some of my native-Texan friends have noticed my Northeastern accent.  This particularly applies to the awe or ah sound of my “o”’s, e.g. off, coffee… so I tell them to fuck awff.

After reading some wikipedia (not the most reliable source, but look at the table at the bottom of the page for the various accents of the US), I found this article linked from the Hudson Valley accent page.  The author seems to know a lot about what doughnuts are called in various parts of the country.  http://www.geocities.com/yvain.geo/dialects.html

Doughnut:

  • New England: cymbals, simballs, and boil cakes
  • Hudson Valley: crullers and olycooks
  • Inland Northern: friedcakes
  • Upper Midwestern and Rocky Mountain: bismarks
  • Chicago (any sweet roll is): doughnut
  • North Midland: belly sinkers, doorknobs, dunkers, and fatcakes
  • Pennsylvania German-English: fasnacht
  • Southern Costal: cookies