IDEA: International Dialects of English ArchiveWelcome three new American subjects
Friday, January 4, 2019
Thanks to IDEA Senior Editor Deric McNish and his students (Peter Florian and Mia Taylor), we now have three new American subjects: Michigan 23, Pennsylvania 11, and New…
A podcast on the Australian dialect
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Learn about the history and sounds of the Australian dialect with this month’s In a Manner of Speaking podcast. The January edition, featuring IDEA Founder and Director Paul…
Happy New Year: a look back at 2018
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Happy new year from IDEA! Last year was another productive one for us, with 77 new samples added to the archive. These included the first ever from the…
What is an idiolect?
Saturday, December 1, 2018
We spend most of our time on IDEA cataloguing dialects and accents by geographic area. So how do idiolects fit into our understanding of an individual’s speech patterns?…
New play page: ‘Lysistrata’
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Check out our newest addition to our Play Names & Terms collection: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Michael M. Shaw, Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, United States, speaks the…
Welcome our 25th German subject
Friday, October 26, 2018
We’ve just added our 25th subject from Germany, a 20-year-old man who has lived his entire life in that country. He’s an excellent example of a very light…
IDEA editors talk dialects & accents in new podcast
Monday, October 1, 2018
IDEA Founder and Director Paul Meier and IDEA Associate Editor Jim Johnson talk extensively about dialects and accents, dialect-sample gathering, dialects on stage and in film, and accents and…
Introducing a new Illinois subject
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Please welcome Illinois 22, a female college student from the Chicago area. This is one of IDEA’s many self-submissions. If you think your accent or dialect is a…
New Spanish sample added
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Welcome our ninth subject from Spain: a 23-year-old man from Madrid. Thanks to IDEA Senior Editor Deric McNish for the submission!
Welcome our sixth Egyptian subject
Monday, September 3, 2018
Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Sarah Nichols, we now have our sixth subject from Egypt, a 46-year-old woman from Giza.
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