From All Talks Of Life
Here at Talk Dialect, we believe that, how we say things is equally as important as what things we say.
And pressingly, recent research shows, how we say things is in decline.
Dialect words are disappearing before our very ears. The meaningful ways in which we speak to each other, is being eroded by tech, media and urbanisation.
So, for the first time, this people-powered project – Talk Dialect – brings together a digital resource for all of England’s dialects.
Crucially, this novel forward thinking resource is built with self-sustaining mechanisms in mind.
To continually grow and be freely accessible for the benefit of the public and future generations.
One exciting special feature is the ability for contributors to personally attribute dialect words and favourite family sayings to honour the speaker for all time.
With help from local individuals and multi-cultural groups, researchers, academics and dialect groups – all talks of life – we are creating a real life talking dictionary for everybody forever.
All together we will collect, contribute and collate an initial figure of 1,000 words, phrases, pronunciations and family sayings used in each of our 39 historic counties.
That’s 39,000 entries freely accessible in one time and place for everybody.
And that’s just for starters. Today the historic counties. Tomorrow the world.
We look forward to talking with you and building this interactive dialect resource for everybody forever.
Ta tar fur now,
Nikki Wordsmith
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What you can expect to read about in our seasonal digest…news of new entries, featured stories and tech tips for adding new dialect words.
Plus well-loved family phrases and catphrase gems from young people and librarians, ordinary people and academics, children and dialect groups from all across England.