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To promote our Society we have a number of events which you can read about on our Events Page.

It also contains a resume of past events.

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If you would like to join the Society and become a part of the resurgence of the Literary and Spoken Heritage of Lancashire, click HERE to apply for membership.

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.

Reader

Lancashire Origin

Title of work

Author

Text Window

Audio

Alyson Brailsford

Rochdale

Laid -Up

H.Kershaw

Alyson Brailsford

Rochdale

Love's Labour Lost

H. Kershaw

Brian Calderbank

Chorley

Look under t' leeoves if yo' want ony nuts .

Brian Calderbank

Chorley

Th' Hooam of a Lancashire Mon.

Denis Clarke

Woodhouses,Failsworth

The Owd Buttery Dur

B.Brierley

Denis Clarke

Woodhouses,Failsworth

Welcoming the Prince of Wales

B. Brierley

Denis Clarke

Woodhouses,Failsworth

Coortin'

D.Clarke

Olwen Clarke

Hollinwood,Oldham

Th' Childer's Holiday

S. Fitton

Olwen Clarke

Hollinwood,Oldham

Eawr Sarah's Getten a Chap

S. Fitton

Brian Foster

Hr Blackley,Middleton

Speykin't' Dog

B. Foster

Brian Foster

Hr Blackley,Middleton

Now the Day is Over

B. Foster

Sally James

Wigan

A Woman's Werk

S. James

Sally James

Wigan

A Bun in the Oven

S. James

Jim Parker

Blackburn

Tha Just Favers Thi Dad

J. Parker

Ron Williams

Saddleworth

A Lankisher Lament

R. Williams

Ron Williams

Saddleworth

Mi Mooerlond Church

R. Williams

Ron Williams

Saddleworth

T'Wrung Number

R. Williams

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).

Lancashire Dialect from the 1930's - British Drama League

Roger Barnes has obtained an

The most popular outings for

The Lancashire speaker chosen by

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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