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March 07, 2005
English Accents at the British Library
Yesterday NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday program featured a story about the British Library's collection of digitized audio recordings following the transformations of English accents over the twentieth century. This is an excellent example of how a digital library can enhance scholarship and entertain as well. Scroll down the page and listen to the sample of the lady from Yorkshire describing baking bread.
The BL's dialect web site introduction describes it as follows:
All languages change over time and vary according to place and social domain, as is perfectly illustrated by these extracts taken from two large audio resources held in the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. Together, they provide a fascinating overview of spoken English during the second half of the 20th century. Its rich diversity documents both continuity and change, offering many insights into local history and the fabric of social and working lives.
The NPR feature is here.
Posted by tdr at March 7, 2005 10:43 AM
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