People might be interested in knowing about the following website
(sorry, I haven't had time to look at it myself).
Roger Fern.
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Collect Britain: English Accents and Dialects [RealOne Player]
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
Over the past few years, Collect Britain has been placing hundreds of
thousands of documents, visual ephemera, sound recordings, and pieces
of material culture online for the general web-browsing public. This
latest addition is rather fascinating, as it documents the vast
diversity of accents and dialects around England over the past half
century. The audio clips made available here are drawn from the Survey
of English Dialects (conducted between 1950 and 1961 and in 313
localities) and the Millennium Memory Bank, which drew on personal
oral histories recorded by forty BBC local radio stations during 1998
and 1999. The webpage begins with a text introduction introducing
visitors to the scope and methodology of the collection and also
includes a few of the Curator's Picks, such as one man's recollection
of sheep farming in Lancashire and the experience of baking bread in
Yorkshire -- recorded in 1955. Each audio clip is complemented by
complete information about the date each conversation was recorded,
along with a phonology, lexis, and grammar that indicates the
linguistics of each participants speech patterns and so on. [KMG]
(From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/ )
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Roger Fern, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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