Angela LockeAngela Locke, poet and author: Up north we are more careful. I would say northern dialects are being more celebrated in a general way, it is what is happening down south that is a problem.

“Ey oop! Ey oop!”, says comedian Michael McIntyre to his audience in Leeds. “That’s supposed to be ‘hello’, according to you.” He sticks with his Yorkshire theme for a couple of minutes, mocking nowt, ...

Two and a half years ago I started a creative writing PhD exploring whether the presence of northern dialect in a fiction manuscript would affect that work’s chances of publication in the UK book ...

For those who fear that the great Northern dialects are about to be overwhelmed by a tide of Estuary English - that words such as mebbies, bleb and gan will soon be as rare as proper mushy peas - ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 'Ey oop! Ey oop!', says comedian Michael McIntyre to his audience in Leeds . 'That's supposed to be 'hello', according to you.' He sticks with his Yorkshire theme for a ...

I WORK in the English department at Sunderland University and am researching the accents and dialects of the North-East. I'm fascinated by the whole issue of where people draw their personal dialect ...

There's always been a stigma attached to southern dialects in Italy, meaning many who moved from the south of the country to the north have had to hide their true roots, writes Silvia Marchetti. Many ...

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- The state chapter of the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), in collaboration with the Information Department (JaPen) of Penang, has taken a creative approach by ...