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[offtopic] dialects

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jan 25, 2001
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Does anyone know where i could find a pronunciation guide for regional
dialects among native english speakers? This can encompass Britain,
Canada, Oz, usa, etc, or just one of those,, anything will help. It's for the
Metaphone project, which is rapidly becoming less and less original
Metaphone as time passes. What i want to do is pass region parms, like:

metaphoneize(TheWord , southusa )
and return (level1,level2,level3) results

so that ("dog" and "dawag") or ("south" and "sayowt") or ("ask" and "ax")
or ("ca" and "car") comparisons are relationally regionally related, if that
makes sense. I don't want to have the code output to be restricted to my
pronunciation, or a global dictionary's pronunciation.

Thanks,
Kat