http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Englishdialects Posts tagged with 'Englishdialects' at MetaFilter. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:16:40 -0800 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:16:40 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69626/Hear%2Dand%2DCompare%2DAccents%2Dof%2DEnglish%2Dfrom%2DAround%2Dthe%2DWorld <a href="http://soundcomparisons.com/">Sound Comparisons</a> is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_English">IPA</a> transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=EN&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109471621804519209280.00043aa1a8440968dce08&t=k&om=1&ll=23.241346,43.59375&spn=163.800976,236.25&z=0">handy Google map</a> of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian, <a href="http://soundcomparisons.com/">Sound Comparisons</a> is the site to go to. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69626 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:16:40 -0800 accents dialect dialects Englishaccents Englishdialects IPA linguistics phonetics Kattullus