The so-called cotton famine threw tens of thousands of Lancashire mill workers into poverty Poems written in "forgotten" Lancashire dialects have been uncovered as part of an academic research project ...

LINGUISTS have started an investigation into whether regional dialects are dead or, as they used to say in these parts, just a little “wambly”. Publisher Collins hopes to trace whether dialect words ...

A GHOSTLY tale told by a Harwood barmaid born in 1882 and the recollections of a retired Blackrod couple have been included in an Internet sound archive. A recording of Polly Morris, made in 1954, ...

Twelve Lancashire dialect phrases are to feature on a series of stone cube artworks as part of a town centre redevelopment scheme. Pendle council asked a local history society and dialect expert to ...

DIALECT poet, songwriter, scriptwriter, artist, playwright or amateur historian - call him what you want, but Ernest Ford was good at it. The popular Westhoughton author and poet died, aged 76, this ...

Researchers are recording Lancashire accents to help develop better speech recognition systems on computers. The sensitive systems are not picking up regional dialects, and tend only to decipher ...

Simon Rennie from Exeter University made the discovery while trawling for "moving poetry" written about the 1861-65 cotton famine in Lancashire. People used their local language to record the poverty ...

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