Author: Bill Griffiths
Publisher: Northumbria University Press
ISBN: 9781904794165
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This dictionary provides a guide, not only to the distinctive vocabulary of the North East, but also the ways in which dialect words contain echoes of the long history of the region and its people.
A Dictionary of North East Dialect
Author: Bill Griffiths
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458784843
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect. The research presents information about words that go back as far as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings as well as those present in today's vernacular. Ideal for anyone interested in English etymology, this reference is thorough and essential.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458784843
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect. The research presents information about words that go back as far as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings as well as those present in today's vernacular. Ideal for anyone interested in English etymology, this reference is thorough and essential.
Pitmatic
Author: Bill Griffiths
Publisher: McNidder & Grace
ISBN: 085716273X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Pitmaticbrings together a wonderful regional pit language – its words, jokes and stories that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality of the region's dialect and the inventiveness and humour of its speakers. The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped sustain an economy, consolidated communities and created a unique and rich regional culture. This book is a joyous celebration of the history of the North East bringing together the words spoken by miners and their families and how they related to the wider languages of the world. The late Bill Griffiths (1948–2007)was an extraordinary writer and poet: radical, experimental and scholarly, but also had a great sense of humour. He was a wonderful champion of the North East, its people and heritage. Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life. 'He was also a scholar of Old English and dialect who know how to make his work accessible. Private and uncompetitive, he was at least these things: poet, archivist, scholar, translator, prison-rights campaigner, pianist, historian, curator, performer, editor, short-story writer, essayist, teacher, book-maker and lyricist... The Saturday before he died, Bill discharged himself from hospital to host the Dialect Day at the Morden Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died as he lived: cataloguing, awarding Best Dialect prizes, opera on his radio, the poetry paramount.' Obituary, The Independent, 20 September 2007.
Publisher: McNidder & Grace
ISBN: 085716273X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Pitmaticbrings together a wonderful regional pit language – its words, jokes and stories that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality of the region's dialect and the inventiveness and humour of its speakers. The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped sustain an economy, consolidated communities and created a unique and rich regional culture. This book is a joyous celebration of the history of the North East bringing together the words spoken by miners and their families and how they related to the wider languages of the world. The late Bill Griffiths (1948–2007)was an extraordinary writer and poet: radical, experimental and scholarly, but also had a great sense of humour. He was a wonderful champion of the North East, its people and heritage. Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life. 'He was also a scholar of Old English and dialect who know how to make his work accessible. Private and uncompetitive, he was at least these things: poet, archivist, scholar, translator, prison-rights campaigner, pianist, historian, curator, performer, editor, short-story writer, essayist, teacher, book-maker and lyricist... The Saturday before he died, Bill discharged himself from hospital to host the Dialect Day at the Morden Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died as he lived: cataloguing, awarding Best Dialect prizes, opera on his radio, the poetry paramount.' Obituary, The Independent, 20 September 2007.
The Dialect of Hackness (north-east Yorkshire)
Author: George Herbert Cowling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
North East Dialect
Author: Bill Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The New Geordie Dictionary
Author: Frank Graham
Publisher: Butler Publishing
ISBN: 9780946928118
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: Butler Publishing
ISBN: 9780946928118
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Dialect of Hackness (North-East Yorkshire)
Author: G. H. Cowling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107658004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Originally published in 1915, this book presents a detailed guide to the Hackness dialect then 'spoken by agriculturalists and their labourers on the Wolds and in the Dales of North-Eastern and Eastern Yorkshire'. The text is divided into two main parts, with the first analysing phonetic elements of the dialect and the second examining its grammatical structure and examples of usage. A bibliography and comprehensive glossary are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in local dialects and linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107658004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Originally published in 1915, this book presents a detailed guide to the Hackness dialect then 'spoken by agriculturalists and their labourers on the Wolds and in the Dales of North-Eastern and Eastern Yorkshire'. The text is divided into two main parts, with the first analysing phonetic elements of the dialect and the second examining its grammatical structure and examples of usage. A bibliography and comprehensive glossary are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in local dialects and linguistics.
A Scot's Dialect Dictionary
Author: William Grant
Publisher: Lodnon : W. & R. Chambers
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher: Lodnon : W. & R. Chambers
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Studying Dialect
Author: Rob Penhallurick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350308110
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field of geolinguistics. Organised into ten thematic chapters, it explores and evaluates the methods and purposes of each approach to the study of dialectal variation, with full explanations of technical terms throughout. Illuminating one of the most productive fields of interest in language study, this compelling book is essential reading for students of dialect and regional difference in English.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350308110
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field of geolinguistics. Organised into ten thematic chapters, it explores and evaluates the methods and purposes of each approach to the study of dialectal variation, with full explanations of technical terms throughout. Illuminating one of the most productive fields of interest in language study, this compelling book is essential reading for students of dialect and regional difference in English.
Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572332225
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Often considered merely a repository of archaic or even Elizabethan English, the language of southern Appalachia represents a distinctive American dialect that is both conservative and innovative. This dictionary marks the first comprehensive, historical record of the traditional speech of this region. Focusing on the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and western North Carolina, it features more than six thousand names, usages, meanings, and folk expressions that are found in the region, exemplified by more than fifteen thousand documented quotations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572332225
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Often considered merely a repository of archaic or even Elizabethan English, the language of southern Appalachia represents a distinctive American dialect that is both conservative and innovative. This dictionary marks the first comprehensive, historical record of the traditional speech of this region. Focusing on the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and western North Carolina, it features more than six thousand names, usages, meanings, and folk expressions that are found in the region, exemplified by more than fifteen thousand documented quotations.
Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Ghada Hashem Talhami
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 081086858X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa includes a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section that has over 400 cross-referenced entries on various aspects of Middle Eastern feminism and culture, touchi...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 081086858X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa includes a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section that has over 400 cross-referenced entries on various aspects of Middle Eastern feminism and culture, touchi...