British Dialects Book

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

The second edition of Trudgill's book includes IPA as well as the dictionary-type respellings making it useful to linguists as well as normal people.

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From:   Beverly Flanigan [mailto:flanigan at OHIOU.EDU]
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Subject:             Re: British Dialects Book

Peter Trudgill, _The Dialects of England_ (Blackwell, 1990; pb 1992).  It's
nontechnical and uses dictionary-type pronunciation diacritics instead of
IPA; and it has great maps.

At 12:02 PM 9/14/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good overview of British dialects suitable for a
>general reader?
>
>I'm looking for something akin to Allan Metcalf's "How We Talk: American
>Regional English Today," only British.
>
>Thanks.