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British Library Archives: accents and dialects

August 11, 2009

The British Library has an excellent online archive of sounds; from music to environmental recordings to oral histories. The geographical mapping of sound data now seems to be a popular means of online archiving sound files. This is a particularly useful tool for the Library’s amazing collection of British accents and dialects (available here).
My favourite that I’ve heard so far is an interview with James Weare, a retired farmer from Kennford, Devon, talking about cider in April 1963 (listen here).

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