{"id":1820194,"date":"2023-11-15T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1820194"},"modified":"2023-11-15T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:19:40","slug":"map-of-british-english-dialects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/11\/map-of-british-english-dialects\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of British English Dialects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Map<\/a>Starkey Comics\u2019s Map of British English Dialects<\/a> took Ryan ages to research. \u201cThe end result is an image which is, to my knowledge, the most detailed map of British dialects ever made. But it is still very much unfinished, and it always will be.\u201d The rest of his post is a careful litany of caveats about what constitutes a dialect, whether it\u2019s geographically specific and whether its boundaries can be sharply defined. \u201cSo yes, this map may be unsatisfying, arbitrary, and unfinished, and no amount of work on it will really change that. It exists mainly as a testament to the huge dialectal diversity of the English language within the UK, and as a way for me to express my fascination and love for that diversity.\u201d [LanguageHat<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starkey Comics\u2019s Map of British English Dialects took Ryan ages to research. \u201cThe end result is an image which is, to my knowledge, the most detailed map of British dialects ever made. But it is… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[518,517,71],"class_list":["post-1820194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-linguistics","tag-dialect","tag-english","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2099,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/mapping-the-decline-of-english-dialects\/","url_meta":{"origin":1820194,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Decline of English Dialects","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Using a mobile app launched last January (iPhone, Android), similar to the one used\u00a0to study Swiss German dialect usage, Cambridge researchers have amassed a huge dataset of English language usage\u00a0and\u00a0are using it to map the decline in regional dialect words and pronunciations.\u00a0[The Telegraph]","rel":"","context":"In "Linguistics"","block_context":{"text":"Linguistics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/linguistics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"english-dialects-arm","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":772,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/mapping-swiss-german-dialects\/","url_meta":{"origin":1820194,"position":1},"title":"Mapping Swiss German Dialects","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Researchers are mapping the shift in Swiss German dialect usage via an iOS app. The app asks\u00a0users to take a 16-question survey based on maps from a language atlas that mapped Swiss German usage circa 1950.\u00a0The app predicts the user's actual home dialect location based on those maps; differences between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linguistics"","block_context":{"text":"Linguistics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/linguistics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"swiss-german-app","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/swiss-german-app-1024x655.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1840588,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/05\/a-hand-drawn-map-of-the-british-isles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1820194,"position":2},"title":"A Hand-drawn Map of the British Isles","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 May 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Mark Esper Mark Esper spent one and a half years drawing a map of Great Britain, Ireland and the dependencies (Isle of Man, Channel Islands). 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