dialect

The Trouble with ING from Munzly 974 days old

[ ... ] as a Norfolk Dialect word-ending. At this point I shall hold my ears and/or duck as people groan in sudden boredom or chuck a metaphorical ...

Mardlingham's Geography from Munzly 1124 days old

The Big House, as it called by the villagers, enjoys a small but delightfully landscaped park with its main entrance off the old Roman road at what used ...

Dialect or Accent? from Munzly 1127 days old

[ ... ] Of course, dialect is different from accent. My maternal ancestors spoke a Norfolk dialect, my mother merely had an accent sprinkled with a few ...

Sexton is as Sexton does from Munzly 1129 days old

The Mardlingham village inn stands a few feet back from the lane that winds from the post office to the sexton's cottage. The lane has high banks topped ...

The Rural Past from Munzly 1130 days old

So there they are, over on the Mardlingham thread, our first four characters at the end of a busy day in the rural past. The scene is the village inn, ...

Spontaneous Characters from Munzly 1133 days old

[ ... ] (Norfolk dialect tending to substitute "W" for "V" and wice wersa) arrived out of the blue to irritate Jarge and provide a spoken contrast. The ...

Old Hat or What? from Munzly 1135 days old

[ ... ] point of a dialect blog is the dialect. So next week, when the main thread is launched, please don't complain if some of the time I'm wearing my ...

The Foolhardy Munzly Hermit Starts his Blog from Munzly 1136 days old

Foolhardy or not, I have decided to try my hand at a daily blog written in Norfolk dialect. This is the original Norfolk, situated on the east coast ...