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The Sight and Sound of the Lancashire Dialect On this page you can experience dialect speakers reading Lancashire literature by not only hearing the dialect but seeing the source poem as well. This will be particularly beneficial to those unused to the sight and sound of the County's dialect and we hope will encourage people to start 'having a go' themselves once familiarity is achieved. The readings show a wide variety of dialectic styles and accents. Note the 'Lancashire Origin' column. This indicates the place the reader originally came from. In some cases the reader is from the same area as the source author, as with Kershaw and Brierley, for example, and give an authentic sense of place to the reading. To listen and read, do the following: 1 - Click on the required speaker in the audio column. The audio player should open in your browser and begin playing. Minimise the player if too big. It will continue playing. 2 - Click on the' Text 'link and the pdf of the text will open - now you can listen and read. Close the text window when finished. |
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On two occasions recently the Society has been consulted on issues of dialect in radio programmes. The first was over 'sloppy' language use at Selfridges store, and the second our response to an 'app' ( a software programme designed for use on a smartphone), translating the Wigan dialect. It featured on Allan Beswick's morning programme on BBC Radio Manchester and featured Ruth Clegg (from Yorkshire!) and our own Mark Dowding. Click HERE to listen to edited highlights.(Audio is copyright BBC Radio M/C used with permission). |
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Lancashire Dialect from the 1930's - British Drama League |
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The three extracts are as follows: One - what the League calls a 'standard passage' - all dialects read a version for comparison with each other - is a tale of a girl at school and according to the League is a monologue based on Skeat's Phonetic Survey of 1884, which comprises in the shortest possible space all the sounds in the phonetic alphabet. Click to listen Two- 'A Respectable Mon' by Samuel Laycock. Click to listen Three- Extract from A.B.'s Reform Speech (from Ab'o'th Yates' Sketches). Click to listen |
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