Kentucky County Pronunciation Project

Purpose

Record individuals pronouncing the names of all 120 Kentucky counties

Sign Up

To sign up, add your name and telephone number to the following schedule. You will receive a telephone call at the scheduled time. The call will only take a few minutes. Your voice will be recorded and converted to audio files for use in FamilySearch Wiki. The files will be stored in WikiMedia Commons.

Example

The Kentucky Dialect category in Wikimedia Commons has examples of counties that have been recorded. Internet Explorer is the preferred browser for audio playback.

Schedule

All times are Mountain Standard Time (MST), which is two hours behind EST and one hour behind CST.

Week of January 17, 2011 to January 21, 2011

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Week of January 24, 2011 to January 28, 2011

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