Talk:Potteries dialect

Links with Early Modern English ?

It would be informative to know the experts opinions of words such as:

wut = would'st thou?

cost = cans't thou?

conna = cans't thou not?

which seem to be contemporary versions of "Early Modern English" Shakespear/Bible type pharses

ED (talk) 13:41, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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'ay up duck if yer wanner tak abart th best acent in th word gis us un e-mail loyalstokie@yahoo.co.uk nar then sirree they astne got thesen many mates in ere ast?--Pete9t8 (talk) 10:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

It aint 'alf cowd

Hey there, now I'm just gonna come straight out with this. I was reading this and I really enjoyed it but found one slight teeny weeny thing that I wasn't sure that I agreed with. You know you said "ow" as in "cow"? Well, my way they say "oa" as in "toad" even though it's written as "cowd". :-/ What d'you reckon? If I had no education and no experience of what the hell I was on about, I wouldn't put this comment up but to give you a background of me (so that I'm not just some plonker with a big gob), I actually study Modern Languages at Uni and am completely FASCINATED with the local dialect!! It's fantastic!!

Thefartydoctor (talk) 00:22, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Interesting articles

http://urd.let.rug.nl/nerbonne/papers/WielingShackletonNerbonne-2011.pdf

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/SEtrudgill.htm

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LSzNMXRwi2EC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=Trudgill+%281999%29+staffordshire&source=bl&ots=Vl0zacjyQ1&sig=9rIDpBN7uWQNFP9YwWA98K3V3L0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ihhxT7aZA47Z8gPP7d1N&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Historical-Potteries-Kidsgrove-Staffordshire-ebook/dp/B002WTCJ9C

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Stokies-united-site-worldwide-web-hit/story-12504193-detail/story.html

http://www.acumenbooks.co.uk/audleynet/famhist/Journal%203/An%20Investigation%20into%20Staffordshire%20dialect.htm

Afer tower crate

Ow rate ducks, ah've med this eer uzerbox, shownd on yer pege or Box Harry w'it. Kaleeyed (talk) 19:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

	This user knowst afer tower crate.

duck

The bit about duck is utter nonsense. The word will have nothing to do with "duke". The Anglo-Saxon word is the same as the Latin dux, so I don't know where the "unclear" comes from, but it's irrelevant anyway, and this should all be deleted.

See http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/58178, which shows that the term of endearment is the same as the bird-name, and was used by Shakespeare. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.201.121 (talk) 13:18, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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Duck and Nesh

Sadly the earlier concern about the dubious etymology of Duck/Duke has not yet been addressed. Having said that, it is not the only word mistakenly claimed to be primarily part of a Potteries dialect. "Nesh" is another one, which to my own knowledge is used in other dialects of the region through North-West England in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:EA01:1090:A0BF:813A:FF02:B8DD (talk) 06:40, 27 May 2021 (UTC)