IS that a frankfurt, cheerio, little boy or footy frank you're about to pop into your mouth?
It's the sort of debate that can stop a barbecue and that's because, as an American PhD language researcher has set out to prove, the answer depends on where you're from.
Sydney Kingstone, a Californian studying at The Australian National University, is conducting a nationwide survey to determine whether Australians think we all speak the same or whether we do, in fact, observe regional dialects. 
"Australians believe people in rural areas sound very different to those living in cities, and that people in different regions such as Queensland, Adelaide, and Western Sydney sound different from each other," Mrs Kingstone said.
"By looking at what people think about the language varieties they speak, linguists have better insight into what shapes language and culture." Many Aussies recognise different words for everything from bathing costumes to the word we use for rubber-soled athletic shoes. We also use different regional pronunciations of words such as "school" and "dance".
"Older readers will have these really regional specific terms," Mrs Kingstone said.
"Some questions really only have two or three options, while others have closer to nine or 10 regionalisms." The 27-year-old said our interesting turn of phrase lured her Down Under to investigate further. "Australian English is seen as very homogenous so I find it really fascinating that people don't actually think of it as all the same," she said.
"People say they know a Queenslander by how they talk or that they can tell someone from Adelaide apart from someone from Sydney, but the research hasn't quite caught up to those perceived differences in the population.
"My project is helping to bridge that gap by looking at regional differences and perceptions of these regional differences and seeing whether the two match up.
"I can't say I'm the first one to look at differences in Australian English but I can say I'm one of the first scholars to really focus on perceptions of regional differences in Australian English." Mrs Kingstone plans to become a professor of linguis-tics, specialising in perceptual dialectology - or how people from different regions perceive language use.
"I'd always had a knack for languages and found it fascinating that people spoke differently depending on where they were from so when I found out I could study that it propelled me," she said. "I have been exposed to many different English dialects and have been able to study it in many parts of the world and just find it incredibly fascinating.
"There hasn't been nearly as much dialect work conducted in Australia as there has been in the US or UK." To assist with the research, News Corp is today launching the national online survey which will predict which region participants are from.
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