LINGUISTS have started an investigation into whether regional dialects are dead or, as they used to say in these parts, just a little “wambly”. Publisher Collins hopes to trace whether dialect words ...
Simon Rennie from Exeter University made the discovery while trawling for "moving poetry" written about the 1861-65 cotton famine in Lancashire. People used their local language to record the poverty ...
During the first half of the 20th century, factories in Lancashire spun threads and churned out vast quantities of woven cloths using raw cotton imported from the United States. The output was such ...
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Researchers are recording Lancashire accents to help develop better speech recognition systems on computers. The sensitive systems are not picking up regional dialects, and tend only to decipher ...
The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster ...
New To Radio 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Tongue and Talk – The Dialect Poets with actor and writer Catherine Harvey in Lancashire. Actor and writer ...
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