ABSTRACT
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Voices grew from a plan of the corporation to use its Nations and Regions journalistic resources to survey vernacular speech across the United Kingdom. Sound recordings and web-based input resulting from Voices inquiries provided material for much BBC radio and television broadcasting in 2005, with the website remaining “live” for more input until 2007. On the Voices website, there is a large and lively discussion board on the language situation of Wales, which provides insights into both the language and language ideologies of the Principality. BBC Voices, however, goes some useful way toward filling a gap in the modern dialectological record. It is understandable why, after an initial blossoming of interest in dialect words, lexicographical dialectology took something of a back seat once sociolinguistically oriented studies got under way from the middle of the twentieth century onward.
