North East Dialect, A Dictionary (WOR Language): A Dictionary of - Softcover

Bill Griffiths

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904794408 ISBN 13: 9781904794400

Publisher: Northumbria Press, 2011

Synopsis

Abackabeyont, bait-poke, cracket, drucken, etten, fettle, guissie pigs, hoy, inbye, jowl, kist, lonnin, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, reckling, skinch, tew, upcast, vine, willok, yem, zookers! If you enjoy finding out about dialect words how and where and when they were used and where they came from we think this is the best guide yet to help you explore the world of North East dialect. Bill Griffiths has made good use of his PhD in Old English to help record, research and explain the special Features of this dialect, which is as old as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and as fresh as the stottie-cake in your local bakers.

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Review:

In this dictionary Bill Griffiths provides a vivid guide, not only to the distinctive vocabulary of the North East, but also the ways in which dialect words contain echoes of the long history of the region and its People. By explaining the words he helps us to understand the place. --Professor Keith Wrightson, Yale University

All this research is brought together in the dictionary, which has received international recognition as a serious contribution to modern dialect study. --Citylife

All this research is brought together in the dictionary, which has received international recognition as a serious contribution to modern dialect study. --Citylife

From the Author:

"North-east dialect is at heart a spoken language, a flexible experience and open to change."

"I think the core dialect is safe but we have lost a lot of rare an unusual words in the last 50 years."

"This book is not intended to fix it, but to encourage a better appreciation of what thankfully, is becoming recognised at last as an essential part of the region's intangible heritage."

About this edition

• Publisher: Northumbria Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1904794408
• ISBN 13: 9781904794400
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 196