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Lancashire dialect
Native to
England
Region
Lancashire
Ethnicity
English
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
Lancashire dialect
Early forms
Old English
Middle English (West Midlands and Northern dialects dependant on area)
Dialects
Different varieties within the dialects, traditionally divided between the South Lancashire dialect (part of the Northwest Midlands group) on the one hand, and the North Lancashire dialect (of the Northern group) on the other.
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Speech example
An example of a female with a non-rhotic accent from Accrington (Jeanette Winterson).
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Speech example
An example of a male with a non-rhotic accent from St Helens, formerly part of Lancashire (now Merseyside) (Johnny Vegas).
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The Lancashire dialect (or colloquially, Lanky) refers to the Northern English vernacular speech of the English county of Lancashire. The region is notable for its tradition of poetry written in the dialect.
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Helens, formerly part of Lancashire (now Merseyside) (Johnny Vegas). Problems playing this file? See media help. The Lancashiredialect (or colloquially, Lanky)...
colloquialisms have shown a growing deviation from the historical Lancashiredialect that was previously found in Liverpool, as well as a growth in the...
have led to the naming of a farmstead after this resource. In the Lancashiredialect, "acorn" is pronounced "akran", which might have influenced the name's...
westwards through Lancashire to the estuary of the River Lune, and is sometimes called the Humber-Lune Line. Strictly speaking, the dialects spoken south and...
Cumbrian dialect or Cumberland dialect is a local dialect of Northern England in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the...
northern West Riding) as well as the North Lancashiredialect. Historical linguists recognise four distinct dialects of Old English: Northumbrian, Mercian...
for Lancashire constituency LancashiredialectLancashire Constabulary Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner List of collieries in Lancashire since...
traditional dialects associated with many of the historic counties, including the Cumbrian dialect, Lancashiredialect, Northumbrian dialect and Yorkshire...
'bugart', 'buggard' and 'buggart'. Boggart is ultimately the typical Lancashiredialect form. These forms all point to an origin with the Middle English word...
Lancashire, technology and British culture, such as "He's Turned Emo", "Chippy Tea" and "eBay Eck". The group's songs make use of Lancashiredialect....
and dialect of English found in Barrow-in-Furness and several outlying settlements in Cumbria, England, historically in the county of Lancashire. Although...
instruments). They sing mainly English folk music, much of it in Lancashiredialect, as well as folk versions of easy listening hits. The group demonstrate...
etymological origins of 'cloud-berry', the plant's name in old Lancashiredialect: 'Pendelhill [in Lancashire] advenceth itselfe up the skie [...] and in the very...
Cumberland, the Cumbrian dialect is dominant. The historical county of Lancashire covered a vast amount of land, and the Lancashiredialect and accent is still...
separate character", and has been described as "the centre of the south Lancashiredialect". John Collier (who wrote under the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin) is acclaimed...
Irish popular Lancashiredialect writer from the 19th century. She was born in Carlow, Ireland on 10 May 1831. She moved to Rochdale, Lancashire to learn millinery...
refer to you as "tha". ("tha" being the local dialectal variant of "thou") And similar in Lancashiredialect: Don't thee me, thee; I's you to thee! In standard...
Liverpool's dialect is influenced heavily by Irish and Welsh, and it sounds completely different from the surrounding areas of Lancashire. Corby's dialect is influenced...
Benjamin Brierley was born in Failsworth and famed for his work in the Lancashiredialect. A statue of him was erected in 1898 in Queens Park, Manchester. There...
was Jenny Greenteeth, responsible for drowning children. Another Lancashiredialect word for supernatural beings was 'Feorin'' (frightening things): this...
who took up writing in Lancashiredialect. He became a prolific journalist. He was born in the Rocks area of Failsworth, Lancashire, the son of James Brierley...
Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan Tourcoing, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France Lancashiredialect poet Edwin Waugh (1817–1890) was born and brought up in the town....
in Urmston in 1708. A self-styled Lancashire Hogarth, his first and most famous work, A View of the LancashireDialect, or, Tummus and Mary, appeared in...
and the dialect. In the earliest editions, William Gaskell added the footnotes explaining some of the words specific to the Lancashiredialect, and after...
featured verses from a range of poets and writers including two Lancashiredialect verses, "A Bird Song Away" and "Th' Art Lookin' Sackless", from the...
tourism to Cartmel include Lancashiredialect writer and BBC broadcaster, Thomas Thompson, who authored sixteen books on Lancashire people and their communities...
with an Estuary English accent, rather than the Lancashiredialect (Christopher Eccleston's own dialect) that the Ninth Doctor used, the Received Pronunciation...
Barrovian, the dialect spoken in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Lancashiredialect refers to the dialect in the traditional county of Lancashire, outside Manchester...
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