#dialect is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 31 people shared 42 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is up 60% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 4 with 13 posts.

Posts with #dialect

Dr Ian McCormick

@wokestudies.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England. #language #dialect

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Jesse Sheidlower

@jessesword.com

12 months ago

Sent to me (nothing to do with the current trip). #Linguistics #Scots #dialect

Photo of a printed sign reading "Dear Scotland, it's "you" not 'youse'. Sincerely, The English Language."

Underneath which is tacked a handwritten note: "Dear England, Youse dinnae ken wit yer talkin aboot. Cheers, Scotland."

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Dr Ben King 🌍

@benking01.bsky.social

1 day ago

Another excellent episode of #WordOfMouth This one focuses on the #Geography of #dialect and #accent www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... HT @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social #Manchester

www.bbc.co.uk

Word of Mouth - Voices of Manchester - BBC Sounds

Rob Drummond talks to Michael about the ways people talk in Manchester.

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Stan Carey

@stancarey.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

I wrote about Irish English and the nature of dialects in an essay for @stingingfly.bsky.social a few years ago: stingingfly.org/product/w…. You can read an abridged version in @irishtimes.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/cultur…. #dialect #linguistics

Excerpt from the essay:
Geography offers a useful analogy. Different regions of Ireland have distinctive landscapes, yet it makes sense sometimes to refer to 'the Irish landscape': it has unifying traits. Similarly there is merit to the idea of Irish English as a dialect. Any local dialect on the island will have properties that mark it as Irish English, though their frequency and proportion will vary from one place or speaker to the next.
So it is with Galway. Its dialects are close to those spoken anywhere west of the Shannon, where Irish lingered longer and had more effect on the English that largely, and violently, supplanted it. But the county’s size and topographical range mean there are considerable differences in local speech as we travel from the towns and farmlands of the east – virtually the midlands – through the city and westward to Connemara and the islands, where in many households Irish prevails.

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Dr Ian McCormick

@wokestudies.bsky.social

10 months ago

DORMEDORY: A term used in Hereford, England, to describe "A sleepy, stupid, inactive person" (Halliwell, 1850) #English #archaic #obsolete #language #dialect

Cecil Collins: The Sleeping Fool (1943). Tate Gallery, London.

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Dr Ian McCormick

@wokestudies.bsky.social

10 months ago

For anyone who's struggled with variable spelling practices before modern printing, there's a summary of what's "interchangeable" in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. 2 vols. London, 1857. #orthography #English #language #dialect #manuscripts #medieval

LETTERS, &c., COMMONLY INTERCHANGEABLE. (Wright, p. viii)
a, o, and sometimes e.
ar, er, or, ur.
be, bi, by, as prefixes.
c, s, ch, sh, sch.
e, ee, i.
ʒ, g, gh, y.
ʒ, th.
h. often omitted where it ought to be inserted, or used superfluously.
i, y.
k, c, ch.
o, oo, ou, u.
qu, wh, w.
s, c.

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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA

@uoscollections.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Don’t you just love old card indexes? This one relates to a survey of language and folklore initiated by Profession John Widdowson in 1964. #NATCECTCollection #culturaltraditions #customs #dialect

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Rosalind Ahmed

@21rosa.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

A mighty dose of dolerite for #RockinTuesday Originally molten magma, those vertical fractures were caused by cooling. Proper hard, northern rock that was quarried and used to make cobbled streets 💪🏻 Ya canna whack it, man! #Northumberland UK April 2021 #EastCoastKin #photography #geology #dialect

Dark grey, hard rock with vertical joints. A prominent scarp by Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

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Of Myths and Moors

@cherylquine.bsky.social

9 months ago

Boggart is Cumbrian dialect for ghost. In West Cumbria, Muncaster Castle’s boggart is a white lady apparition. She is said to be the ghost of murdered local, Mary Bragg, seeking revenge or recognition of her demise. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #dialect #Cumbria

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Stan Carey

@stancarey.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

"If we take the accent out of accent prejudice, we are still left with the prejudice – let's remove the prejudice and be left with the accent." #linguistics #dialect

EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social

A really nice piece from Amanda Cole on 'My Fair Lady', accents, misogyny and class. theconversation.com/my-fair-lady...

theconversation.com

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Alex an Sows

@ansows.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

If you want to hear how the Shetland dialect of Scots sounds, watch my cousin’s short film, A creation story of the Celtic Mother Goddess Danu. The Shetland dialect is beautiful, and I could listen to it all day long. youtu.be/SNr4soAIEbQ?... #langsky #Scots #language #dialect #poetry

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Dreaming of Danu narrated in Shetland dialect by Cilla Robertson. A short film by Alex Purbrick.

YouTube video by Windtalker films

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Alan Cleaver

@postalpathsguy.bsky.social

7 months ago

Meanwhile in the Cumbrian dialect group on Facebook, the names for birds are being discussed: Spuggie (sparrow); Dykie (dunnock); Scoppie (chaffinch); Stuckie or Shepster (starling) #Cumbria #dialect