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…
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…
Welcome our ninth subject from Spain: a 23-year-old man from Madrid. Thanks to IDEA Senior Editor Deric McNish for the submission!
Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Sarah Nichols, we now have our sixth subject from Egypt, a 46-year-old woman from Giza.
If, like us here at IDEA, you are fascinated by both the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the wacky spelling conventions of the English language, you will love…
We’ve just added two new subjects from the U.S. state of Florida. They are Florida 20 and 21. Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Sarah Nichols!
Thanks to IDEA Associate Editor Amelia Morse Kolkmeyer, we have a new sample from the Czech Republic (or Czechia). The 64-year-old woman is our seventh subject from that…
Actor Travis Laughlin wrote us recently, talking about how useful IDEA has been to his accent and dialect work. Check out his most recent dialect project on Vimeo….
We’ve just added a new self-submission from the U.S. state of Illinois. See Illinois 21. This 25-year-old Latina has spent the vast majority of her life in the…
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked. Apparently more than we thought. That’s proved not just by IDEA’s Play Names & Terms Special Collection — which we highly recommend…
IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive