Thursday, March 03, 2005
Regional Accents
Regional Accents
I've always been fascinated by our regional heritage and by the development of regional accents within the U.K. and the British Library have compiled a collection of audio clips. These are from a survey of English dialects and accents and the Millennium Memory Bank Document. You can play the clips in your media player, I really liked the lady from Backworth in Northumberland describing the old colliery house that she uded to live in, it was very reminiscent of my childhood in a terraced house in John Williamson Street.
Baking bread in Welwick, Yorkshire was also a great audio clip. There are loads to choose from, and as well as hearing the dialect, you also gain from a little social history.
Click here for the British library downloads
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I've always been fascinated by our regional heritage and by the development of regional accents within the U.K. and the British Library have compiled a collection of audio clips. These are from a survey of English dialects and accents and the Millennium Memory Bank Document. You can play the clips in your media player, I really liked the lady from Backworth in Northumberland describing the old colliery house that she uded to live in, it was very reminiscent of my childhood in a terraced house in John Williamson Street.
Baking bread in Welwick, Yorkshire was also a great audio clip. There are loads to choose from, and as well as hearing the dialect, you also gain from a little social history.
Click here for the British library downloads
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