Ey Up, Mi Duck !

Ey Up, Mi Duck ! PDF Author: Richard Scollins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

Ey Up Mi Duck!

Ey Up Mi Duck! PDF Author: Richard Scollins
Publisher: Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN: 9781853066580
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Featuring cartoon-like illustrations that aim to capture the warmth and humour of the East Midlands, this work is a celebration of the dialect spoken in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Staffordshire.

Real English

Real English PDF Author: James Milroy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317896955
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.

Duck

Duck PDF Author: Victoria de Rijke
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861894899
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
The squat, noisy duck occupies a prominent role in the human cultural imagination, as evidenced by everything from the rubber duck of childhood baths to insurance commercials. With Duck,Victoria de Rijke explores the universality of this quacking bird through the course of human culture and history. From the Eider duck to the Brazilian teal to the familiar mallard, duck species are richly diverse, and de Rijke offers a comprehensive overview of their evolutionary history. She explores the numerous roles that the duck plays in literature, art, and religion—including the Hebrew belief that ducks represent immortality, and the Finnish myth that the universe was hatched from a duck’s egg. The author also highlights the significant role humor has always played in human imaginings of duck life, such as the Topographia Hibernia, a twelfth-century tome contending that ducks originated as growths on tree trunks washed up on a beach. But the book does not neglect the bird’s role in everyday life as well, from food dishes to jokes to beloved animated characters such as Daffy Duck and Donald Duck. Duck is an entertaining account of a bird whose distinctive silhouette is known the world over.

Dialect Writing and the North of England

Dialect Writing and the North of England PDF Author: Patrick Honeybone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474442579
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.

The Wonky Donkey

The Wonky Donkey PDF Author: Craig Smith
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545261244
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Kids will love this cumulative and hysterical read-aloud that features a free downloadable song "I was walking down the road and I saw... a donkey, Hee Haw And he only had three legs He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey Download the free song at www.scholastic.com/wonkydonkey.

Derbyshire Dialect

Derbyshire Dialect PDF Author: Mike Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902674483
Category : Derbyshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description

Answers to Questions Nobody Was Askin'

Answers to Questions Nobody Was Askin' PDF Author: Tim Sample
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1608933695
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Maine humor icon Tim Sample gives us a new collection of short essays and monologues about his growing up and living in Maine and throughout his long entertainment career. His wide range of subjects include things that could happen “Only in Maine,” how his dad invented the SUV, his long friendship with horror master Stephen King, the pitfalls of Maine’s fifth season (mud), and the right way to eat a lobster. Part whimsical anecdote, part hard-won wisdom, these stories are imbued with Sample’s distinct wry Yankee wit.

Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology

Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology PDF Author: Jennifer Cramer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
This edited collection presents papers relating to the state of the art in Perceptual Dialectology research. The authors take an international view of the field of Perceptual Dialectology, broadly defined, to assess the similarities and contrasts in non-linguists’ perceptions of the dialect landscape. The volume is global in focus, and chapters discuss data gathered in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, and South Korea. The common methods used by many of the contributors means that readers will be able to draw comparisons from the breadth of the volume. The primary focus of this volume is geared toward an examination of dialect perceptions in and of cities, with an additional goal of presenting empirical, theoretical, and methodological advancements in Perceptual Dialectology. Authors’ contributions to the collection examine how the urban setting influences perceptions of linguistic variation and, in the course of examining the connections between place and perceptions, explore several interrelated themes of linguistic variation, including the differences in the perception of rural and urban areas, processes of perception and language change, and the relationship between perception and ‘reality’.

East Midlands English

East Midlands English PDF Author: Natalie Braber
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501502379
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes.
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