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By Katie Wales

ISBN-10: 0521861071

ISBN-13: 9780521861076

English as spoken within the north of britain has a wealthy social and cultural historical past; but it has frequently been missed through historic linguists, whose learn has centred mostly at the improvement of 'Standard English'. during this groundbreaking, replacement account of the historical past of English, Northern English takes centre level for the 1st time. Emphasising its richness and diversity, the ebook areas northern speech and tradition within the context of identification, iconography, psychological maps, barriers and marginalisation. It reassesses the function of Northern English within the improvement of contemporary common English, attracts a few pioneering conclusions concerning the way forward for Northern English, and considers the origins of the numerous pictures and stereotypes surrounding northerners and their speech. quite a few maps, and an invaluable index of northern English phrases and pronunciations, are incorporated. leading edge and unique, Northern English might be welcomed by means of all these attracted to the background and nearby variety of English.

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O. Heslop of Bede’s Death-Song nicely captures the monosyllabic strength of Old English (cited in Geeson 1969: 17–18): Afore thor need-fare Yen is nivver mair Wise in thowt Than he owt Think what he can On his way gan What tiv his ghaist O’ good or ill maist After his deith day Doom then may say Cf. ) 1959: 167). 42 NORTHERN ENGLISH reveals monophthongisation or retraction of diphthongs before /r/ in a labial environment, as in uard (WS weard ‘ward(en’); barnum (WS bearnum ‘bairns’) and uerc (WS weorc ‘work’).

Be] full of sheep anyway’. 16 Yet against these negative images there are the persistent more positive stereotypes, exploited in modern advertising for example, of the resilient Northerners, hard-working and humorous in the face of adversity, blunt speaking and straight-forward, friendly to strangers, their working flat caps matching their ‘flat’ vowels. As Northerners themselves would say, they have ‘no side’: they are what they seem, like the Hovis brown bread which actors with Northern accents have advertised ‘wi’ nowt taken owt’; or Tetley tea-bags.

Paxman (1999: 79) recounts a campaign for the ‘Real Counties of Britain’ in 1997 to restore the ancient county names and to abolish terms like Cleveland and Merseyside. The county names listed by Cheshire, Edwards and Whittle (1989: 193) to accompany their map of ‘Standard Regions’, the basis for their urban dialect survey, and the same as those cited by Smith (1989) above with reference to the Central Statistical Office, are now out of date. Crystal (2004: 536–7) has a hybrid map since he too marks Cumbria amongst the older county names.

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