Regional Dialect

a great mawther

• a great rough awkward girl

• I'm really fed up, weary

• child

• newt

• hot water bottle

a bairn

• a great rough awkward girl

• I'm really fed up, weary

• child

• newt

• hot water bottle

•Where would you see the non-standard pluralisation of ‘you’ to yous’?

• Plymouth

• Liverpool

• Kent

• Somerset

•What would be the standard form of the following? ‘So I gets out of the car and I says…’

• So I get out of the car and I say...

• So I got out of the car and I said...

• So he gets out of the car and he says...

• So I gets out of the cars and I says...

•What would the non-standard  be of the following in the south-west? 'Where is he?'

• Where's he to?

• Where be he?

• Where art thou?

• From whence he came?

•Some dialects still retain ‘thee’ and thou’ as address forms for ‘you’. Where might this happen?

• northern and midlands dialects

• In modern urban areas with high language diversity

• the south east

• Scotland

•Regional dialect grammar can additionally see the non-standard use of ‘hisself’ and ‘theirselves’ as well as the standard, ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’. What sorts of pronouns are these classed as?

• Reflexive pronouns

• Possessive pronouns

• Interrogative pronouns

• Demonstrative pronouns

Which regional dialect example uses a relative pronoun (you learnt this as relativeizer) in a non-standard way?

• 'That's the film what I saw'

• ' That's the film that I saw'

The verb form ‘to be’ can be used in a variety of non-standard ways. How might this verb form be spoken in Cockney?

• 'we was'

• 'I be/You be'

• 'I were'

'Ten while twelve' might be a typical dialect feature of which region?

• Hampshire

• Surrey

• Yorkshire

• Suffolk