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Countrystride #81: Cumbrian dialect
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
...in which we trace the rise and fall of local dialect in the company of long-time friends and Cumbriana champions Jean Scott-Smith and Donald Angus. On a journey that begins with the earliest Celtic settlers, we learn how Angle and Norse immigrants left their mark in the language of landcape; we mull the meanings of Blencathra, Wetherlam, Coniston and Catstycam; we hear how Donald perplexed walkers by posting a National Park weather forecast in dialect; and – after a nostalgic diversion to consider unlikely Cumbrian remedies and the 'mobile bomb' dangers of petrol irons – we bow out with two note-perfect renditions of dialect poems.
You can find out more about the Lakeland Dialect Society at www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk
You can find out more about the Lakeland Dialect Society at www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk
Released:
May 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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