Thursday Thirteen #48

There is an awesome website hosted by George Mason University that is a compilation of wave files of people from all over the world reading the same text. It's a study in dialects, and I find it incredibly amusing! Here are 13 of my favorites.

1. Pine Bluff, Arkansas
That's an hour from where I grew up. Yes, I do know a lot of people who speak that way. No, I don't think I do! LOL

2. Glasgow, Scotland

3. St. Anne's Bay, Jamaica

4. Darwin, Australia

5. Yole, India

6. Pretoria, South Africa

7. Haslev, Denmark

8. Buenos Aires, Argentina

9. Helsinki, Finland

10. Drammen, Norway

11. Hong Kong, China

12. Casablanca, Morocco

13. Brooklyn, New York


Comments

Anonymous said…
What a neat concept. I still have trouble thinking I have an accent, but people say that we clearly do here in WI.
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Anonymous said…
That was absolutely fascinating.

Only 58 days!!!! You are getting close.
Anonymous said…
Well that last one is in my favorite city. NYC has been my home since I was born and there are so many different dialects there that it will take you a couple of years to study them all.

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Anonymous said…
Great list!
Thank-you for posting.
:)
Anonymous said…
Oh! Seriously cool! Thank you.
Anonymous said…
What a cool thing! How'd you find it?
Anonymous said…
Interesting concept. I love voices.

My T13 is up as well.
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