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All things about the Forest of Dean dialect, updates on the linguistic research findings, resources, and news.

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Here's how the Forest of Dean & people were described in the 19C. Ideas that are still with us today. facebook.com/179228133772453…

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Stereotypes about rural communities are long-held. When a 19C businessman came to Gloucester, he was surprised by the language he found. He undertook to list as many dialect words from the county...

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George Riddlers Oven, is centuries old Glos dialect poem and has many features from the Forest Dialect. facebook.com/179228133772453… @forestersforest

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Interest in recording the Forest Dialect for future generations began in earnest in the 19 century. A businessman Drummon-Robertson compiled a glossary for Gloucestershire that included the Forest...

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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…
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…
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hearing many of these and more in Gloucestershire too
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facebook.com/ForestDialect/p… Journal article on @ForestDialect Poets, now published in @EnglishToday. Its global readers includes academics, journalists, broadcasters, teachers and advanced students @readingthefod @forestersforest
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Cllr Mark Turner has made some adjustments to one of our social distancing signs. @ForestDialect may enjoy this!
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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/m000m4b…
BBC Radio 4 - Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets, The Forest of Dean

BBC Radio 4 - Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets, The Forest of Dean

Jason Griffiths uncovers a rich seam of dialect poetry in his native Forest of Dean.

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What a stunning photo 🦡❤️
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Badgers in the #ForestOfDean
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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?
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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,
vrom the varest
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listening to oral histories of foresters who lived through two world wars & the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. They had no NHS. They lived off the land, reared animals, made their own remedies and foraged in the forest. Life was hard.
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It was this generation that saw the nation lose it's faith in God, & the fracturing if mining communities in the latter half of the 20th century.
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They were self-reliant, resiliant but with a deep sense of community and of course humour was at their very core.
BBC One - Inside Out West features Harry Beddington 7.30pm Monday 9th March ⁦@forestersforest⁩ ⁦@ForestDialect⁩ ⁦@robbeddington⁩ ⁦@BelgianWaffling⁩ ⁦@cinderfordtc⁩ ⁦@DeanWye⁩ ⁦@GlosMediaSchool⁩ ⁦@AbGardner1⁩ bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00807r…
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listening to a forester born in 19th century talking about food. She talks about a scrunchie cake. Has anyone else heard of scrunchie cakes?
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