Canny voices put on the Net.Recordings of North East accents have been put on the internet. Voices from the 1950s and 1998 and 1999, feature in 11 hours of interviews put on the internet by the British Library British Library, national library of Great Britain, located in London. Long a part of the British Museum, the library collection originated in 1753 when the government purchased the Harleian Library, the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, and groups of manuscripts. to show how regional words and accents have changed over the last 50 years. With the help of the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , voice samples were collected from all over the region. Among the changes has been the virtual disappearance of the Northumbrian burr - a way of pronouncing `r' from the back of throat - but much has otherwise stayed the same. Jonathan Robinson, curator of English Accents & Dialects at the British Library Sound Archive The British Library Sound Archive in London, England is one of the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. Opened in 1955 as the British Institute of Recorded Sound, it became part of the British Library in 1983. , said: "I think Newcastle and Northumberland is an area where, because of its isolation and its sense of regional pride, has retained a lot of its own dialect. That isn't always true of other regions." |
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