English Dialect Society information

The English Dialect Society was the first dialect society founded in England. It was founded in 1873, but wound up after the publication of Joseph Wright's...

Yorkshire Dialect Society and the East Riding Dialect Society exist to promote the survival of the more traditional features. The dialects have been represented...

The American Dialect Society (ADS), founded in 1889, is a learned society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other...

For the classification of varieties of English only in of pronunciation, see regional accents of English. Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages...

The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist...

Northumbrian dialect or Northumbrian English is any one of several traditional English dialects spoken in the historic counties of Northumberland and County...

the English Dialect Society, by Trübner & Co., 1880 John Kjederqvist: "The Dialect of Pewsey (Wiltshire)", Transactions of the Philological Society 1903–1906...

different dialects and accents of Modern English spoken in Southern England. As of the 21st century, a wide class of dialects labelled "Estuary English" is...

Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. Historically, the term Appalachian dialect refers...

Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United...

East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east...

The Cornish dialect (also known as Cornish English, Anglo-Cornish or Cornu-English; Cornish: Sowsnek Kernowek) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall...

(1887). The Folk-speech of South Cheshire. London: Trübner and Co.; English Dialect Society. p. 297. OCLC 3352236. pikelet Wilson, C. A. Food & drink in Britain...

media help. The Lancashire dialect (or colloquially, Lanky) refers to the Northern English vernacular speech of the English county of Lancashire. The region...

Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of...

transcription delimiters. The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of...

The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central...

more commonly and historically the Forth and Bargy dialect, was a dialect of the Middle English language once spoken in the baronies of Forth and Bargy...

particularly spelling that are unified nationwide but distinct from other English dialects around the world. Any American or Canadian accent perceived as lacking...

New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, is a regional dialect of American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding...

Dialect: The word "yuh" is interchangeably pronounced /ju/ or /jə/. The structure of questions in Bajan Dialect varies from that of Standard English,...

variation in New World English. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Vol. 85. Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society. ISSN 0002-8207...

known as Middle English in England and Early Scots in Scotland. Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken...

Cumbria have a more North-East English sound to them. Whilst clearly spoken with a Northern English accent, the Cumbrian dialect shares much vocabulary with...

488, p.248 Thomas Darlington, The Folk-speech of South Cheshire, English Dialect Society (1887), p.12 Nursery numbers, a new book of old rhymes, Marcus...

Thomas Quiller (1880). Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall. English Dialect Society. p. 104. Tiddlywink , sometimes Kiddlywink , a small inn only licensed...

(1876) A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Whitby, English Dialect Society, p.147 Dampney (1977) All about herbs, Exeter, p.13 Black pudding...

The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University...