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Dialects of English

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American Dialects
American Dialect Society
American dialects in general
Dictionary of American Regional English
American dialects in general
Labov, The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America
American dialects in general
Links
Boston Dialect
Buffalo Dialect
California Dialect
The California Central Coast Online Dictionary--you can contribute!
Chinook Jargon
Ebonics: Labov article
Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence, June 1972
Ebonics: Labov article
Can Reading Failure be Reversed? A history of efforts to apply knowledge of Ebonics to improve reading and writing in the early grades.
Ebonics: Labov article
Testimony on Ebonics given January 23rd before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Ebonics: Rickford article
Ebonics in my Backyard
Ebonics: Wolfram article
The Regional Context of Earlier African-American Speech: Evidence for Reconstructing the Development of AAVE
Ebonics: information page
Primary sources pertaining to the Ebonics debate.
Mid-Atlantic Dialects
Montana Dialect
Native American dialects: Wolfram article
Dialect Identity in a Tri-Ethnic Context: The Case of Lumbee American Indian English
Native American dialects: Wolfram article
Ethnolinguistic Marking of Past Be in Lumbee Vernacular English
North Carolina Dialect
Contains audio samples
Pennsylvania Dialect
Material on the dialect of the coal region of eastern PA.
Philadelphia Dialect
Pittsburgh Dialect
Pittsburgh Dialect
Includes a translator into Pittsburghese.
Pittsburgh word list
Rhode Island Dialect
Rhode Island vocabulary test
Tennessee Dialect
Texas Dialect
Texas Dialect Dictionary
West Virginia Dialect Project

British Dialects
Anglo-Manx dialect
A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect, by A. Moore, 1924.
Geordie Dialect
Excerpts from The Geordie Bible.
Geordie Dialect dictionary
Includes audio samples
Geordie dialect translator
Translates standard English into Geordie.
Lakeland Dialect Society
Lancashire Dialect
Word list drawn from the TV program Coronation Street.
Norfolk Dialect
Audio files of The Singing Postman and other songs.
Norfolk Dialect
Norfolk Dialect Dictionary
Norfolk: Trudgill, Dedialectisation and Norfolk...
Contains audio samples
North Staffordshire Dialect
RealAudio sample of Jabez.
Pitmatic (Durham) dialect
Scottish Dialect Glasgow
Yorkshire Dialect
Poems from West Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Dialect
Words and prose in the East Riding subdialect.
Yorkshire Dialect Society
Yorkshire dialect

Colonial Dialects
Asian Englishes
Australian Dialect
Lexicon of slang expressions.
Australian nicknames
Belize Creole
Bermuda Dialect
Bislama
Cameroonian Pidgin English
The Bible in CPE.
Coxford Singlish dictionary
Ghanaian Pidgin English
Hawaiian Pidgin English
Wav files of Pidgin words, expressions, and poems.
Hawaiian Pidgin English
Hawaiian Pidgin English
Linguistic description and test.
Krio
A folk tale in Krio and English.
Krio
Proverbs and stories in the English Creole of Sierra Leone.
Montserrat Creole
Nice article by John Wells.
Neo-Melanesian
Translation of the Bible.
Nigerian Pidgin English
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights translated into NPE.
Norfolk/Pitcairn Dialect
Papua New Guinea Pidgin
Rasta/Patois
A dictionary.
Singapore Dialect
South African English: Oppressor or Liberator?
South African: Dialects, Standards, Myths
South African: Wade article
Arguments for Black South African English as a distinct ‘new’ English
South African: Wade article
An investigation of the putative restandardisation of South African English in the direction of a 'new' English, Black South African English.
South African: Wade article
A New English for the New South Africa
Tok Pisin
Home page of Radio Australia, Tok Pisin version.
Tok Pisin
Trinidad Dialect poem

Canadian Dialects
Canadian English
Canadian phonetics
Canadian raising and other oddities
Canadianisms
Couch is replacing chesterfield
Dialect Topography of Québec City English
Newfoundland vocabulary test
Quebec expressions
Yod-dropping
Zee and zed

Engrish
Advertising slogans
Article by Joseph Sheperd
"Loanwords: A Pitfall for All Students"
Article by Martin Nuttall
"It's all double Janglish to me"
Article from the AP
"Japanglish: English with a twist"
Article from the Guardian
"Could 'Japanglish' be a legitimate language?"
Article from the Washington Post
"Hot-To Koh-Hee, But Hold the Creap"
Article in Lingua Franca
"Poor English: why Japan is a non-player in the IT revolution"
Boxing game in Engrish
Car repair site in Engrish
Characteristics of Engrish
Warning: this site is not linguistically informed.
Chinese Engrish
Cowboy Bebop
Great anime show described in profound Engrish
Crime prevention, signs, links
Includes great links to websites *in* (not *on*) Engrish
Cruising with Rover
Appears to be a legitimate site for the Rover car company
Discussion thread of Engrish
Domokun
Engrish 101
Text of products and signs
Engrish discussion group
Engrish discussion group on Yahoo
Engrish.com
Great site with pictures of Engrish products
Games in Engrish
Glossary of Japanese English
Hamster Donuts
Hong Kong film subtitles
Instructions at a Japanese porn site
Janglish
Many different types of Engrish: vocabulary, sentences, fashion...
Japan Life
many great pictures of diverse products
Japan stories
Korean Engrish
Letter to Denmark
Miscellaneous (pictures and text)
Fascinating site from Singapore or the Phillipines with several articles, pictures, and random tidbits
Miscellaneous (text)
More Engrish
Pictures
Pictures
Product pictures
Product pictures
Product pictures
Billed as the largest gallery of Engrish products on the net
Product pictures
Product pictures
Product pictures
Products and slogans
A nicely done site
Recent Engrish discoveries
Sanrio Engrish products
Tarepanda, Burnt Bread Man, Afro Ken, and more!
Signs
Signs
Son of Engrish
Text of Engrish products and signs
Song lyrics by Boa
Spot the Japanglish!
Super Lucky Fun Blocks
Sushi
Sushi azarashi
There used to be a great Engrish version of this site. A sample: "Toro-Papa: The father of SUSHI-AZARASHI. He is so dignified. Also he is the most carefree in family. Otherwise it is very difficult to understand what he is thinking about because he has poker-faced. But it seems he realy love that he is SUSHI-AZARASHI himself."
Thai Engrish
Great site with kid's cartoons described in Engrish. Sample: "The Little Red Hood. Young girl to visit her grand mom but wait! what's happen with her grandmom."
The Short Story of Kanji Picture Collection
Tounge of Frog [sic]
Video games
Warning! contains mild nudity
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Website in Engrish
Wonders of Engrish
Engrish on anime merchandise
Yutaka Kikuchi's profile
Available in English, Japanese, and Engrish versions!

Audio
English dialects in general
Links to many good audio samples of diverse varieties of English

Miscellaneous
Dialect survey
Llanito
Spanglish vocabulary from the island of Gibraltar
Varieties of English
Useful collection of samples of English varieties from the Language Samples Project at Arizona
Wolfram, World Englishes

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