Comments on: By Gum, I divvent!

By Gum, I divvent!

Masi — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:20:17 -0800

English Accents and Dialects. The British Library has compiled an online archive of northern speech dating back to the 19th century. The recordings range from from audio from Victorian cylinder dictaphones to 1950s football fans chanting.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:26:08 -0800

I love how people from Burnley say "Buuurrrrnly". It's mi favourite.

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:49:02 -0800

Wonderful. I wish these were downloadable. If you keep digging, the whole collection is wide in its' nature. Drawings for example.

By: slater

slater — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:51:23 -0800

fluffycreature: you CAN download them, by looking at the source and copy & pasting the URL ;)

By: squealy

squealy — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 07:35:40 -0800

Brilliant link. That Burnley supporter's reminicences are priceless.

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 08:14:52 -0800

There are a lot of theories about how language spreads as an instrument of empire. By coincidence, I read a fantasic quote last night: "Language is a dialect with a navy."

By: sueinnyc

sueinnyc — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:03:48 -0800

This is great. Especially since my mother is from Burnley.

By: bmckenzie

bmckenzie — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:57:11 -0800

Great link. Synchronous subtitles would make it even better. Anyone know of a comparable collection of Northern *New* England accents?

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 19:05:37 -0800

That's Weinreich you're quoteing there, 327.ca Ironically, he was talking about Yiddish - A shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot - which never has and never will have either an army or a navy.

By: johnnyboy

johnnyboy — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 02:36:09 -0800

Top link, cheers. Although to my soft southern ears, some of that was bordering on the unintelligible for me.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:22:08 -0800

Hartlepool is my fave, I think.