Tankertrashnav, agree with you on the generality of accents and the badges.
The lost voices of Britain before WW1: German recording of British PoWs reveals a rural society rich in now extinct accents that varied from village to village- The recordings were discovered by British academic John Adams
- They are believed to be the earliest known recordings of its kind
- Experts fascinated that the Oxfordshire accent has completely changed
- Recordings made by Alois Brandl and Wilhelm Doegen
- They will be unveiled at next year's First World War centenary events
Last edited by ORAC; 13th Sep 2013 at 07:55.