[Ads-l] study of English dialects

[George Thompson]

The Guardian newspaper has an article about a Leeds University project to
create a new survey of English dialects, following a survey it had done in
the 1950s.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/still-whanging-dialect-hunt-aims-to-update-prized-english-language-archive

There are a  number of links in the article.  This one is to the survey's
homepage.

https://dialectandheritage.org.uk/

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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