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When I was training to be a teacher, a lifetime ago, we were advised to lose our local accents and especially dialects. It was seen as bad form. I didn't take that advice. My lovely grandma was born in Walsden (Lancashire), then a small village in a deep valley. Her dialect never left her, even after 50 years of living in Blackpool. She lived with us for several years. It wasn't so much words as phrases with her. When asked where she was going, she would reply "up suff and rowt back o' Jossies". Asking someone to close the door it was always "put wood in th'oil". She had a few Lancashire dialect poetry books.
Ay, dear-ra-me, what talk is this?
Aw'm powfagged wi' all these
Aw'm beawnt ta stick tut dialect,
Which seldom fails to please;
For when all neaw is said and done.
In language, prose or rhyme,
You'll find a true Lancastrian
Spayks gradely evry time.
Ay, dear-ra-me, what talk is this?
Aw'm powfagged wi' all these
Aw'm beawnt ta stick tut dialect,
Which seldom fails to please;
For when all neaw is said and done.
In language, prose or rhyme,
You'll find a true Lancastrian
Spayks gradely evry time.