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"Sounds Familiar?" Catholic students contribute to new British Library project (28th March 2007)
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Students from Holy Cross Catholic Sixth Form College in Bury, Greater Manchester, are among the first young people to contribute to a new project set up by the British Library.  The "Sounds Familiar" website is aimed primarily at A-Level English students studying the diversity of spoken English.

Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/

'You are what you speak' (28th March 2007)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6499797.stm

'The UK's regional accents are changing - and it's not just the spread of Estuary English behind this shift, but the slang and intonation of Caribbean and Asian voices...'

 
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