Regional Dialect Links

Below are links to most of the websites that we have looked at this week about regional dialects.

• Dictionary of American Regional English (This is the home page.  You can click around to find the pages we explored.)
• Dialect Survey from University of Wisconsin – Madison (Click on “Maps and Results” to look at the different states.)
• International Dialects of English Archive (This one is from all over the world.  Click on the region links to the right to narrow down to where you want to go.)
• National Map of American English Dialects (we didn’t look at this one much, but it gives you a lot of information on regional dialects)
• Dialect Map of U.S., Referenced (the “professional” dialect map)
• Dialect Map of U.S. (the non-professional, but more interesting, map)
• Beyond “Soda, Pop, or Coke”, Joshua Katz’s Regional Variation Interactive Maps
• Wikipedia List of English Dialects

Dialect Projects you can Participate in:

• Worldwide Accent Project  (we didn’t look at this, but it is similar to the Regional Dialect Meme project)
• Regional Dialect Meme (This is posted on a “Know Your Meme” website, but gives instructions on how to do it.  You can also search in YouTube for Regional Dialect Meme and get lots of results.)
• DARE Participation (The Dictionary of American Regional English is looking for responses to a few lexical questions.  This page will show you how to respond and participate in building the DARE.)