This video is about why I speak the way I do. It’s a slippy un as, for a start off, ‘Yer comin round our arse afters?’ dun’t mean wot yer fust think. Do yer no nowt about it? Then shall yuh come?
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My research on Leicestershire dialects was done in 2002 and 2003. A longer version of the script for this video forms the opening chapter of _Leicestershire Legends retold by Black Annis_. This is available as a free PDF: www.hoap.co.uk/leics_legends.pdf
Books by Clifford Dunkley, Richard Scollins and John Titford were especially helpful. I was also assisted by emails from Rhianydd Murray, David Wood and Colin Hyde. My grateful thanks to them all.
Clifford Dunkley, ‘Let's Talk Leicester’, published by author, 1998.
Arthur B. Evans, ‘Leicestershire Words, Phrases and Proverbs’, T.C. Browne, 1848.
Roy Palmer, ‘Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland’, Sycamore Press 1985; second edition Tempus 2002.
Richard Scollins and John Titford ‘Ey Up Mi Duck!: Dialect of Derbyshire and the East Midlands’, Countryside Books, 2000.
Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson and John Widdowson, ‘Word Maps: A dialect atlas of England’, Croom Helm, 1987.
More about Leicestershire accents on KZfaq:
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