March 02, 2005

Way up wep! At the British Library's website "a remarkable collection of more than 55 hours of audio recordings of English regional accents and dialects went online today" via the Grauniad. Proper job, my lover.
posted by Abiezer_Coppe 19 years ago
  • Arse, bugger up the Guardian link, though the 'comedy' misspelling was deliberate.
  • [That were dead good, that were] Ta, Abiezer pet.
  • Hmm. I saw something similar to this, only with US dialects. Now if only I could find the bugger...
  • Wonderful link, but haven't they been up for a while? I remember listening to early 20th century Lincolnshire accents. Maybe elsewhere in the British Library site, but now curated in the Collect Britain section.
  • Might well have been jb (it seems a lot of recordings came from a pre-existing Millennium Project)- just followed the link in the guardian and explored for a while. I enjoyed that it was often interviews with elderly people recorded in the 1950s - interesting slice of social history. I think my favourite accents are rural County Durham and Gloucestershire. Anyway, made me a bit homesick.
  • Here and here are threads which present some North American variations. One on Singlish (Singapore's English). Be interesting to have some on Down-Under and Pacific variations, too.