Forest Dialect

Here's how the Forest of Dean & people were described in the 19C. Ideas that are still with us today. facebook.com/17922813377245…

George Riddlers Oven, is centuries old Glos dialect poem and has many features from the Forest Dialect. facebook.com/17922813377245… @forestersforest

Contibutors from the Forest of Dean to 19C Glos Glossary, gives us an earlier idea of the Forest dialect - have you heard of any of them? facebook.com/17922813377245…

hearing many of these and more in Gloucestershire too

@FODSculpture @xkhadygueye @ZakiyaMedia pleased to see supportive voice from @FODSculpture, let's amplify and bring to the fore different perspectives, experiences and talents

We have posted a statement on our website following recent social media posts about our Soil unsoiled commission with @xkhadygueye and @ZakiyaMedia forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk/news/ #Inclusion #Diversity #Equality

@glosenglish @EnglishGlos

facebook.com/ForestDialect/… Journal article on @ForestDialect Poets, now published in @EnglishToday. Its global readers includes academics, journalists, broadcasters, teachers and advanced students @readingthefod @forestersforest

Cllr Mark Turner has made some adjustments to one of our social distancing signs. @ForestDialect may enjoy this!

Radio 4 Tongue & Talk to feature Forest Dialect. Prog airs Sun 30 August 2020, 16:30. Hear about #ForestDialect poets, past and present. Also, Research Fellow Dr Michelle Straw will talk about the gendered nature of dialect. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

What a stunning photo 🦡❤️

Language scholars use IPA the international phonetic alphabet which has one symbol for each sound. The English spelling system is terrible for that- see, sea, cede, believe, seige, key, me,

Dialect writing in the Forest of Dean today is part of a centuries old tradition. They give us a flavour of the dialect & contain many features verified by language scholars. But how can they portray accent, especially the vowels?

@EstherAsprey @Wolvensam well thats a yes,

Tried oatcakes for the first time this morning. Jury is out, frankly...

@officialhenryp @ZakiyaMedia @bristolpaul @NeilMaggs2 @TristanCorkPost rhotic r is real English and was exported to US and Caribbean from the west of England because it was being lost from the south east. And Wessex was the literary language of Anglo-Saxon England

@ZakiyaMedia @bristolpaul @NeilMaggs2 @TristanCorkPost @ForestDialect Yes the Normans changed things a bit init 😂 imagine if the rhotic r remained in the court instead of Latin. And the more guttural the posher one was

@NeilMaggs2 @bristolpaul @TristanCorkPost I'm thinking we should do a documentary on how west country is the original language of the crown (Alfred the Great) to counter the stigma and popularize the tongue?

@ZakiyaMedia embracing life, embracing the future honours the memory of those who went before us. We look into the past to glimpse the lives of our ancestors and learn their stories. In turn we make the stories for future generations.