British Accents and Dialects

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Resources consulted in creating British Accents and Dialects

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www.bl.uk/british-accents-and-dialects Upton, C. & Jones, B. (eds.) 2013. Analysing 21st Century British English: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the 'Voices' Project. London: Routledge Upton, C., Kretzschmar, W. and Konopka, R. 2003. The Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English. Oxford: Oxford University Press Upton, C. & Widdowson, J. 2006. An Atlas of English Dialects. London: Routledge Wakelin, M. 1977. English Dialects: An Introduction. London: Athlone Press Wakelin, M. 1978. Discovering English Dialects. Aylesbury: Shire Wright, J. (ed.) 1898-1905 The English Dialect Dictionary Vols. 1-6. Oxford: Clarendon Press and Oxford University Press reprints Wells, J. 1982. Accents of English I: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Wells, J. 1982. Accents of English 2: The British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Wells, J. 2000. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Harlow: Longman

Online British Library Sounds (http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects)

Committee for Linguistics in Education (http://clie.org.uk/) English Speaking Union (http://www.esu.org/) International Phonetic Association (https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/) The English Project (http://www.englishproject.org/)

BBC Voices (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/) BBC Routes of English (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/)

Collins Dictionary (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/) Dictionary of the Scots Language (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/) Macmillan Dictionary (http://www.macmillandictionary.com/) Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.oed.com/) Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/)

Black Country Society (http://www.blackcountrysociety.co.uk/) Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group (http://pitmatic.co.uk/) Friends of Norfolk Dialect (http://www.norfolkdialect.com/) Lakeland Dialect Society (http://www.lakelanddialectsociety.org/index.htm) Lancashire Dialect Society (http://www.thelancashiresociety.org.uk/) Northumbrian Language Society (http://www.northumbriana.org.uk/langsoc/index.htm) Yorkshire Dialect Society (http://www.yorkshiredialectsociety.org.uk/)