I love this kind of stuff. Like the speech accent archive which has a bunch of people from different countries read the same lines in English.

And that one survey that split up slang by a map. Like people who say kitty-corner instead of diagonal; kruller instead of doughnut, etc. etc... The prof who did this has since moved on, but it should be up soon (so he says). But you can still hack the URL. Whippin' shitties!

I've been into regional accents ever since I went on that Appalachia trip with kids from Wisconsin. Small world--my friend Kristen made this site and the "Radio dial" one. We were DAs together and now she does web & DVD projects for MLP.