Regional
Accents

Here are some regional accents of English from around the world.

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"Three months ago, my mother's new nose fell off during the night"

dKeith Murphy (Oklahoma, U.S.A.)

Joel Schilling (New Hampshire, U.S.A.)

Mark Hayward (London, England)

Yorkshire, U.K.

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Some links to web sites on dialects /accents

English

• IDEA - International Dialects of English Archive
  AmEng

Japanese

• Kkyoto Shimbun Try to learn the Kyoto dialect
• LET'S STUDY KANSAI BEN
• Japanese (The Languages of the World by Computers and the Internet)
• Let's Try Kumamoto Ben!
• Okinawa Faces & Voices - Okinawan Language
• CHIKURA DIALECT
• Perceptual Dialect Maps
• Google Web Directory - Regional Asia Japan Society and Culture Language Japanese Dialects
• Yamamoto Dialect