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5 days ago · Since the days of The English Dialect Dictionary the start of research into dialect has been to collect words and pronunciations from ‘native’ speakers, and to classify, refine, spell, and record them. Brocket and Heslop are the standard reference works used for Northumbrian. aad-farrened – old fashioned : “Ee’s aad-farrened, him”
5 days ago · A dialect is the way a particular group of people speak a language. In a dialect, there are some words which only people in that group will understand, the pronunciation is different and there might even be some non-standard grammar. (Be careful not to confuse dialect with accent.
5 days ago · Cockney, dialect of the English language traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. Cockney is also often used to refer to anyone from London—in particular, from its East End.
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1 day ago · e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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3 days ago · The Northumbrian Language Society has existed since 1983 to promote, preserve, research, publish and enjoy those rich dialects from Northumberland to NW Durham (including Tyneside), descendants of the speech of the Angles. AIMS OF THE SOCIETY. “To research, preserve and promote the Northumbrian language.”. This website intends to give the ...
