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Potteries dialect
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The Potteries dialect is a dialect found in the North West Midlands of England, particularly in and around Stoke-on-Trent.
A popular cartoon called May un Mar Lady, created by Dave Follows, appears in The Sentinel newspaper and is written in the Potteries dialect.
The Potteries dialect derives from Anglo-Saxon Old English. Example words and phrases:
- "Nesh" meaning soft, tender, or to easily get cold is derived from the early English, “nesc, nescenes.”
- "Slat" meaning to throw, is from the old English “slath,” moved.
- "Sheed" meaning to spill liquids, most likely derived from the word "shed" in the sense of getting rid of something.
- "Cast kick a bow aggen a woe an y'ed it till thee bost it?" meaning, "Can you kick a ball against a wall and head it till you burst it?"
- Potteries Dialect links
- May un Mar Lady Examples
- Potteries Dialect links
- History
- Examples
- Port Vale Chat room interesting to see the dialect being discussed today by a local/global community of football fans
Other West Midlands English dialects:
- Black Country (Yam Yam)
- Brummie (spoken in Birmingham)
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