Of possible interest to readers of this blog:
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The (American) English Accent Research Center. The person who runs this website, Tom Kun, says here, he’s an “accent enthusiast” with no degree in linguistics, but he’s clearly reading stuff and still manages to find time to run the website. (If there’s someone out there who can answer Tom’s question, please do so; and while you’re at it, take a stab at Tonio’s, too.)
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The (British) English Accents and Dialects website, maintained by Jonathan Robinson, the English Accents and Dialects curator (really!) at the British Library. This is part of the Library’s Collect Britain effort (“putting history in place”), and I found out about it by way of this and this.
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The (British) BBC – Voices project.
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The (American) Harvard Survey of North American Dialects, one of Bert Vaux‘s oh-so-many projects (which also include The Repository of English Dialect Samples (TREDS)). Note: stare long enough at Bert’s picture on his homepage and he’ll blink.
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Finally — but not because there ain’t more out there — check out the Varieties of English page at the University of Arizona, maintained by the Language Samples Project, of which our own Bob Kennedy is, or at least was, a member.
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UPDATE: Bob Kennedy writes to tell me about the International Dialects of English Archive at the University of Kansas (“since 1997”).