Interactive Maps of the Accents and Dialects of the UK

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

by fogus • 17 years ago

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halaric• 17 years ago

It's a shame that Firefox doesn't know what to do with the links to the recordings.

lsb• 17 years ago

WMA? That's a disappointment.

ZeroGravitas• 17 years ago

I'm getting right sick of the British Library being a Microsoft shill.

I've just been reading, again, about their involment in the embarrassment that is the ISO approved OOXML.

martingordon• 17 years ago

It's a shame, really. I was looking forward to this site when I saw the title.

albemuth• 17 years ago

Would be cool to have Australia, New Zealand, South Africa so you can learn to spot the differences

gms• 17 years ago

Does anyone know of anywhere else with similar properties? I've never come across anywhere with such a huge variation of accents and dialects over a relatively small piece of land, but my experience is limited.

To me (non-American), Americans' differences are far more subtle (and the variations are nowhere near as numerous as in the UK), even when comparing between regions that are far-apart.

Interactive Maps of the Accents and Dialects of the UK

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