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Dialectology has never been my thing, really, though I had to take courses that included it, and it’s interesting. Many people are surprised to discover that the United Kingdom has a great deal more dialectical variation than the United States, and that’s not counting immigrant populations. Here is a cool site. You can click on any of the “people” on the UK map and hear them speak.

This entry was posted by rightwingprof on April 25, 2007 at 1:06 pm under Odds 'n Ends. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. joubertconlon says:

    I don’t know what it’s like nowadays in the UK but 40 years ago when I lived there some of the regional dialects were incomprehensible without a translator. That’s because people never left where they were born. Maybe they move around a bit more nowadays. Now I’m going to have fun with that map.

    April 25, 2007, 6:24 pm

  2. Incognito says:

    what a great site… thanks… as an actress this is invaluable.

    April 26, 2007, 11:26 am