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Ethnographic map of Austrian Monarchy (1855) - Wikimedia Commons

Ethnographic map of Austrian Monarchy (1855) - Wikimedia Commons Fascinating map shows the Austro-Hungarian Empire before its acquisition of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1878 and before its cession of the kingdoms of Lombardy and Venice to Italy in 1866. The map shows...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 24, 2020 6:15 PM

Cases in Finnish

Cases in Finnish Latin has six cases (and sometimes a seventh), Greek has four, but Finnish has 14 or 15: Nominative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative, instructive, and maybe accusative. And then there...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 17, 2019 6:31 PM

Language map: What's the most popular language in your state?

Language map: What's the most popular language in your state? Based on the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, this article includes maps of the most popular language in each state other than English, most popular other than English or Spanish,...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 14, 2014 9:56 PM

Speech Accent Archive

Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University "The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 4, 2011 8:05 PM

BBC - Voices - The Voices Recordings

BBC - Voices - The Voices Recordings A collection of thousands of sound clips from all over the United Kingdom of people speaking their own various accents and dialects. (Via a comment from Courtney Milan on dearauthor.com)...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 4, 2011 7:47 PM

American English Dialects

American English Dialects Big map showing dialects of English in the US and Canada. Tulsa is on the border of the Inland South and West Midland. For cities marked in green there's a link to audio sample of a representative...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 27, 2010 1:21 AM

Brit Gal' in the USA: Okie's may have the cleanest mouths ever!

Brit Gal' in the USA: Okie's may have the cleanest mouths ever! Sarah, a British expat living in small-town western Oklahoma, writes: "I kid you not, it's probably been a good few months since I was in the company of...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 17, 2008 7:42 PM

Paul Greenberg :: Townhall.com :: Modals and Me

Paul Greenberg :: Townhall.com :: Modals and Me "One of the great advantages of a regional dialect is that it's rooted in real life and real distinctions, like the one between 'I could' and 'I might could,' each with a...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 20, 2008 8:37 AM