Kentucky County Pronunciation Project

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Purpose[edit | edit source]

Record individuals pronouncing the names of all 120 Kentucky counties

Sign Up[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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Week of January 24, 2011 to January 28, 2011[edit | edit source]

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