Lmst

I'd be generous to say maybe 3 of these would baffle an 'outsider'.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/phrases-only-bristol-people-understand-7589

#bristol #bristolian #language #dialect

The weird history of Spoonerisms: English's silliest slips-of-the-tongue

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/history-of-the-spoonerism

#dialect : means or mode of expressing thoughts

- French: dialecte

- German: der Dialekt

- Italian: dialetto

- Portuguese: dialeto

- Spanish: dialecto

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A daily challenge to chain words together @ https://wordwallgame.com

Waarom heten de Vlaamse mediaprijzen 'de Kastaars!' en wat betekent het woord 'kastaar' eigenlijk? Lees het in de nieuwe aflevering van Uit de streek!
#dialect #streektaal

https://ivdnt.org/actueel/woorden-van-de-week/uit-de-streek/kastaar/

I'm very pleased to be chairing this @folkloresociety talk tomorrow: Alex Broadhead on 'The Art of English Dialect Literature', 7pm (UTC/GMT).

Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-english-dialect-literature-tickets-1977403407823
#folklore #dialect

Bedmo?

Where's that to?

It's Bemmie!

#Bristol #dialect

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bedminster-nickname-bedmo-removed-housing-10744909

#1138 Margery Rowe (ed) - Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Vol XXXII - Part V. Maslands Ltd, Tiverton, Summer 1972.

#Devon #Cornwall #DCNQ #MargeryRowe #Archives #History #Genealogy #Medicine #Dialect #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 32:5 for Summer 1972. Plain pale blue with title in black and a table of contents, including articles concerning 17th Century Apothecaries in Honiton, A Cornish Literary Institute, Great Sinns Chapel at Treleigh near Redruth, Descent of the Manor of Wollacombe, Cornish Dialect, and a Tonic for Horses.

Meer sfeer op het web met de WordPress SnowFall plugin.

https://janvandenberg.blog/snaijacht/

#Dialect #Urk

Kvraagetaan

Vandaag voor het eerst gehoord op de radio: “Kvragetaan” van de Fixkes, een dialectpop-groep uit Stabroek.

‘t Is een perfecte weergave van hoe ik ook mijn jeugd herinner – tot zelfs het behangpapier toe in hun YouTube-videoclip. Echt jeugdsentiment. Help! Ik word oud…
Hun reggae-versie vind ik trouwens nóg beter dan het origineel. Dat past beter bij zo’n downtempo liedje.

Fixkes website: http://www.fixkes.be/
Fixkes op MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/stabroek

GETTS: Earnings (Halliwell) #ARCHAIC #dialect #Victorian #19thC

19th-century Street stall with men and a woman holding a baby.
TEXT: Dictionary Of Archaic And Probincial Words by Halliwell, James Orchard

Evidence That #Humans Now Speak in a #Chatbot-Influenced #Dialect Is Getting Stronger

https://gizmodo.com/chatbot-dialect-2000696509

While Googling I came upon this “AI overview”. I can attest that these are true, and I used all of them in my youth. My paternal Grandfather often used, “Nah then,” or more likely, “Nah den,” him being a Sheffielder:-

To say "hello" in Yorkshire, use "'Ey up!" or "How do?", often followed by "lad/lass/duck" as terms of endearment, or just a simple "Nah then", all signaling a friendly greeting like "Hello there!" or "How are you doing?".

#Yorkshire #Dialect #Barnsley #Sheffield #DeeDar

I was surprised to realise that I've released 11 Lincolnshire Voices tracks to date.

More coming in the New Year...

Anyway, here's a handy playlist with them all in one place...

https://bandcamp.com/gribbles/playlist/lincolnshire-voices

#electronicmusic #lincolnshire #dialect

Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link]
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisition/685124/?gift=V3O2UvvjYxV4cxnKzA_IbBDJc5q7hrirBd06BY_HL7E

#language #sociolinguistics #accents #dialect #LanguageChange #linguistics #TaylorSwift

🤖 #AI has a bias #problem, and it's judging you by your #dialect.

A new #study found that major #language models associate speakers of #Bavarian and other dialects with negative traits like "uneducated" and steer them toward lower-prestige jobs.

Thrummy Cap, A Legend of the Castle of Fiddes (1796) was a poetic tale written by John Burness (cousin of Robert Burns) #language #Scottish #dialect #poetry #gothic

Extract from the Montrose Chronicle Feb. 3, 1826.

"WHEN we mentioned a fortnight ago, that a man had been found dead among the snow near Portleathen, we were not aware that it was John Burness, the author of the popular little poem of Thrummy Cap. He was a native of the parish of Glenbervie, Kin. cardineshire, and was born May 23, 1771. He was many years a private in the Forfar Militia; and although not much esteemed as a soldier, yet, as Burness the Poet, he was loved by the whole regi. ment-officers and men. For sometime previous to his death, he was employed as a traveller for a Periodical Publishing Company in Aberdeen; and in that capacity was well known over the counties of Angus and Mearns. He has left, we understand, a widow and family in Stonehaven; and we are further informed, that it is in contemplation to erect a monument over his grave, to mark the place where rest the ashes of the humble and honest bard."

TITLE PAGE 1832 edition

THRUMMY CAP,

A TALE;

AND

THE BROWNIE O' FEARNDEN,

A BALLAD,

"O happy! when the gloamin'-fa',
Convenes the canty Farmer's Ha';"
Wi' tales an' ballads, sangs an' a'-
O happy then!

The winter evenin' steals awa'
Till nine or ten."

BRECHIN:

ALEXANDER BLACK, BOOKSELLER, 1832

THRUMMY-CAP: "The name of a sprite who occasionally figures in the fairy tales of Northumberland. He is generally described as a "queer-looking little auld man," and the scene of his exploits frequently lies in the vaults and cellars of old castles." #language #Scottish #dialect #English #poetry

The comical stories of Thrummy Cap and the Ghaist
Thrummy Cap by John Burness
The poetic tale, Thrummy Cap, A Legend of the Castle of Fiddes (1796), written by John Burness (cousin of Robert Burns), was popular during the 19th century in the northeast of Scotland.
But, Reader, judge of the surprise,
When there he saw, with wond'ring eyes,
A spacious vault well stor'd wi' casks
O'reaming ale, and some big flasks,
An' stride-legs o'er a cask o' ale,
He saw the likeness o' himsel.

Just in the dress that he coost aff,
A thrummy and an aiken staff,
Gammashes and the jockey-coat;
And in its hand the Ghaist had got,
A big four-legged timber bicker,
Fill'd to the briin wi' nappy liquor,
Our hero at the spectre stared,
But neither daunted was nor car'd,
But to the Ghaist stright up did step,
An' says, dear brother, Thrummy Cap,
The warst ye surely dinna drink,
So I wi' you will taste I think;
Syne took a jug, pou'd out the pail,
And fill'd it up wi' the same ale,
Frae under where the spectre sat,
And up the stair wi' it he gat;
Took a gude drink, gae John anither,
But never tald him o' his brither
That he into the cellar saw,
Mair than he'd naething seen ava,
Light brown and nappy was the beer:
Whar did you get it?

Cornish: a critically endangered (or extinct) minority language? Image 2: 1st page of Vocabularium Cornicum, a 12th-century Latin-Cornish glossary. #Cornwall #English #language #Celtic #Brittonic #dialect

CORNWALL: It is almost unnecessary to observe, that the ancient Cornish language has long been obsolete. It appears to have been gradually disused from the time of Henry VIII . , but it was spoken in some parts of the country till the eighteenth century . Modern Cornish is now an English dialect, and a specimen of it is here given. Polwhele has recorded a valuable list of Cornish provincialisms, and a new glossary has recently been published, in ‘ Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect,' 8vo . 1846.

SOURCE: Halliwell, James Orchard. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words: Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. 2 vols. London, 1847.

The first page of Vocabularium Cornicum, a 12th-century Latin-Cornish glossary

For anyone who's struggled with variable spelling practices before modern printing, there's a summary of what's "interchangeable" in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. 2 vols. London, 1857. #orthography #English #language #dialect #manuscripts #medieval

LETTERS, &c., COMMONLY INTERCHANGEABLE. (Wright, p. viii)
a, o, and sometimes e.
ar, er, or, ur.
be, bi, by, as prefixes.
c, s, ch, sh, sch.
e, ee, i.
ʒ, g, gh, y.
ʒ, th.
h. often omitted where it ought to be inserted, or used superfluously.
i, y.
k, c, ch.
o, oo, ou, u.
qu, wh, w.
s, c.

DORMEDORY: A term used in Hereford, England, to describe "A sleepy, stupid, inactive person" (Halliwell, 1850) #English #archaic #obsolete #language #dialect

#dialect

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