Multimedia Resources on New England Accents

Cassettes

How to talk Yankee. A Downeast Foreign Language Record featuring Bob Bryan & Tim Sample. Bert and I, Inc. 1983.

A short course of the language and them that speaks it. Fritz Wetherbee.

Down East New England Dialect Tape. David Alan Stern. Samuel French.

Videos

American Tongues. Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez New York: Center for New American Media. 1987.

Television and Radio

Car Talk 3/8/1995. An accent special "sponsored by the Hyundai Accent"

Chronicle 7/20/1998. "New England Dialects."

Speakin' N'Hampsha with Fritz Wetherbee (see his homepage; order his book)

Websites

Recent UNH-related media about New England dialects

"Do you speak Yankee?" Concord Monitor 4/28/2006, p. D01. (Archived)

"Turnin' back the clock on talk." Concord Monitor 9/15/2002. http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/community/news2002/nh_accent_2002.shtml

Boston English. http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/

The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English. http://www.bu.edu/mfeldman/Boston/wicked.html

Books

Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire (recently featured on NH Chronicle) is in bookstores now across NH. Order it at: http://www.plaidswede.com/books.htm or at most major bookstores (according to http://www.wmur.com/chronicle/3962600/detail.html)

 
Please address questions or comments to Naomi Nagy.  This page was last updated 5/16/06.