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dialect map of USA comes to our attention

Apr 13

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thanks to twitter, followed a link to this most interesting website, maintained as a hobby by someone called Rick Aschmann. he apologises to those whose emails he has not yet answered – the site has generated many more, apparently, since several other websites posted notes and articles about his work on this site…

interesting for the design for a start.
it’s a cornucopia in concept, boxes of this and that all neatly separated according to sub-topic, with heaps of blue underlining which normally signifies links to further information, and small headings in red for notes, dates and so on.

there are links to recordings of speakers, and a map which shows the different dialects of the north american continent, along with related links to audio of representative speakers for that area. as well as calls for more sample recordings of speakers from areas that he has not been able to collect yet…

the dialect map is also available in pdf form so interested parties can print it out.

what more can you ask for?
a MAP plus audio recordings of speakers linked to the map????