User talk:Jimmy Lancashire
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[edit] April 2007
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[edit] Dialect pages
I see that you have been looking at the Lancashire Dialect and Accent page. I actually wrote 95% of that myself just because every other dialect had a page and no-one would make one for Lancashire. However, I am from West Yorkshire (Ossett), so am not ideally disposed to run the page. You are obviously from Lancashire. What did you make of it? The books mentioned at the bottom were my academic sources. I have also looked up odd things in the English Dialect Dictionary.
I also noted that you edited some stuff on English English. "Gotten" is actually part of old-fashioned English, and is still used certainly in Yorkshire and the North-East. I presumed that the whole of the North would use it. I added a reference from the Yorkshire Dialect Society for this.
I did not change the part about Michelle Holmes, although I disagree with your edit. I think that Rochdale is hardly distinguishable from the western fringe of Yorkshire around Halifax/Huddersfield. To me, Oldham is more clearly Lancs. You mention rhoticity for east Lancs. According to the British Library, rhoticity can be found in a Bolton accent and nearby, and also in an Oldham accent. Note no rhoticity in the Rochdale one. Michelle Holmes has been in dozens of Yorkshire programmes.
I have not changed this bit though, as I admit to not being an expert on Lancashire.
Please let me know if you disagree strongly with anything that I have written. I would like for someone from Lancashire to improve the Wikipedia pages on the dialect.
