IDEA: International Dialects of English ArchiveIntroducing our sixth Maryland subject
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Please welcome to IDEA Maryland 6, a 17-year-old girl from Elkridge, southwest of Baltimore. The subject was actually born in Lima, Peru, but lived there for only a…
Welcome our third Mexico City subject
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Please welcome our third subject from Mexico’s Federal District, better known as Mexico City. Click here to listen to this 31-year-old man from El Pedregal (or Jardines del…
Introducing our first Knoxville subject
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Though IDEA has 18 subjects from the U.S. state of Tennessee, our latest addition is the first to have grown up in Knoxville, in the eastern part of…
Welcome our first Saratov subject
Monday, August 22, 2022
Please welcome our first subject from the Saratov region of Russia. Click or tap here to listen to the subject. The 27-year-old man is from Volsk (or Vol’sk),…
Welcome our third Nigerian subject
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Please welcome Nigeria 3, a 28-year-old woman from Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State. Thank you, Associate Editor Connie de Veer, for the submission.
Honduras gets a second subject
Monday, July 25, 2022
Thanks to a self-submission from a 31-year-old man from Tegucigalpa, we now have our second subject (and first male) from the Central American nation of Honduras. See Honduras…
Welcome our first San Jose area subject
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Despite having more than 1,600 subjects, IDEA has been missing a person from the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland metro area in California — until now. So a big thanks…
Welcome Arkansas 42
Monday, June 27, 2022
Adding to our fine collection of Arkansas subjects gathered by Senior Editor Ben Corbett and others is our latest addition from the “Natural State”: Arkansas 42. This subject,…
Introducing two Norwegian subjects
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Thanks to new IDEA contributor Roxanne Wellington, we have just doubled our collection of Norwegians. Both of the new subjects — one man and one woman — are…
Welcome four Syrian phonetic transcriptions
Friday, June 17, 2022
If you’re a student of phonetics — and especially if you’re interested in Middle Eastern languages and accents — you should check out our newest phonetic transcriptions. IDEA…
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