- whoohoo.co.uk
Translates English phrases into Ali G, Geordie, Brummie, Yorkshire, Irish, Scottish, Scouse, Cockney Rhyming Slang, and posh dialects. Includes free SMS translator.
www.whoohoo.co.uk
- BBC: Voices
Hear recordings of accents and pronunciation from across the British Isles. The BBC's Voices project includes audio files, word maps of the U.K., lesson plans, and articles about the evolution of language in Britain.
www.bbc.co.uk/voices
- Collect Britain: English Accents and Dialects
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British Library sound archive examining the peculiarities and differences of regional English accents throughout the 20th century.
www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects
- Norfolk Dialect
Includes wav. file of Keith Skipper speaking in the dialect and extracts from his book "Larn Yarself Norfolk."
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5564/dialect.html
- Yorkshire Dialect Society
Scholarly organization for the study of the Yorkshire dialect.
www.clanvis.com/loc/dialect/home.htm
- Lancashire Dialect Society
Includes dialect samples and dictionary.
www.ldsociety.fsnet.co.uk
- BBC Online: Routes of English
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Radio 4 series discovering the state of local dialects at the beginning of the new millennium.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish
- English Intonation in the British Isles
Information about and samples from the IViE Corpus.
www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~esther/ivyweb
- United Kingdom English for the American Novice
Glossary of terms and abbreviations.
www.hps.com/~tpg/ukdict
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