UK: Welsh dialect recordings given to the British Library

From the article:

IT CONTAINS farm labourers’ Shakespeare-inspired expressions and the reasons why Pembrokeshire is called “Little England”.

It took more than 40 years to compile and will form an epic record of Anglo-Welsh dialects for generations to come.

Because now the new audio encyclopaedia – a fascinating series of recorded interviews studying the English spoken by people in Wales – has been presented to the British Library’s vast sound archive in London.

Source: Wales Online

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