English Accents and Dialects
The way we speak:
"Listen to the changing voice of England. Extracts from the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank document how we spoke and lived in the 20th century."
Recordings taken from 600 English regions making a total of 30 hours of audio, captured in either the 1950s or 1990s.
British Library: Overview
Collect Britain: Listen
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