Good linguistics video or interactive links to show to high schoolers. [more inside]
posted by oflinkey on Dec 14, 2009 - 3 answers

There was a site of speakers around the world speaking a specific phrase in English. This was to show how regional dialects of English sounded. You could click on a map and it would pull up video of these speakers. Does anyone know what that site is? If not, perhaps a good response would include a concise phrase that can show different regional variations (cot/caught, don/dawn, pin/pen). [more inside]
posted by symbioid on Sep 20, 2008 - 9 answers

Are /k/ , /'e/ , and /o/ really the only phonemes "common to every language?" [more inside]
posted by Liosliath on Aug 8, 2006 - 11 answers

Sentences like "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet. Are there similar sentences that are designed to contain all of the commonly accepted phonemes in the English language?
posted by ubersturm on Oct 14, 2005 - 14 answers

How does a stenographer's typewriter work?
posted by tomharpel on Mar 12, 2004 - 3 answers