Dialect Collection

Charter (Fragments)
Charter recording a mortgage for a house, cut into two pieces for use as book binding material. On parchment. Text in dark brown-black ink in a gothic cursive hand

Lancashire Cotton town Knocker Up
A humourous postcard from the Lancashire Cotton Towns where knockers up were employed to waken mill workers. Notice the reference to being on strike and the caption written in Lancashire dialect Date

Comic postcard, Four assorted pairs of Scottish legs, with tartan kilts and socks Date: 20th century

Devon Apple Dumpling - " Yer be a Whoopin Opple Dumplin vor ee. Now Vall to." Date: 1927

Mycenaean art. Greece. Clay tablet with inscriptions on Mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Clay tablet inscribed with mycenaean Linear B script. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Heligoland Island
Heligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

Cow & Gate Snap - Oi be oop from Somerset. circa 1930s

Cornish Traditional Pasties: " Which will ee ave, a Turmut, Lickey or Tatie Pasty?" circa 1905

The Gortyn Code in Dorian dialect. 5th B. C
The Gortyn Code. Dorian writing on the wall of a Roman Odeon. 5th century B.C. Crete. Greece

Samuel Ruther. Crockett
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT Tireless Scottish novelist - The stickit minister, The raiders and many more - with an unfortunate tendency to write in dialect. Date: 1860 - 1914

Samuel R Crockett / V Fair
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT Scottish novelist who wrote in dialect Date: 1860 - 1914

Suffragette T Suffragettes in Leeds Dialect. A report on a suffragette disturbance at a meeting entirely in Leeds (Yorkshire) dialect, by TyKelet Mr

Cartoon, German arrested in the street, WW1
Cartoon showing a German arrested in the street by a policeman and a soldier, at the start of the First World War. He is protesting: But how much more times must I tell you I vas an Englishman

A Yorkshireman at the Folies Bergere Show, Paris, France
A Yorkshireman in Paris Mr Watson (thro Leeds) - " Whats this ere Polly Burgesses like?" Date: 1894

Chas. H. Yale & Sidney R. Ellis present the German dialect comedian and golden voiced singer, Al. H. Wilson in a new romantic German dialect comedy, The watch on the Rhine by Sidney R. Ellis

A Professor of Languages A Language Student returns to his College, but his grasp of the vernacular of his cabby seems less that First Class as he appears to have underpaid his driver

Heligoland - The New Port. A small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1)

William Barnes, Poet
WILLIAM BARNES Anglican priest, author of poems in the Dorset dialect, eg An there vor me the apple tree do lean down low in Linden Lea

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