 How
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the Shropshire dialect a thing of the past? |
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There
isn聮t a Shropshire accent or, indeed, a Shropshire dialect. There
are several. That聮s the conclusion Georgina F. Jackson came to
when she compiled her exhaustive Shropshire Word Book in 1879. |
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How
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Part
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Part
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A
Sense of Place
Programmes:
That Wrekin Feeling
Everybody loves The Wrekin. It is the spiritual heart of Shropshire.
You聮re not a true Shropshire man unless you聮ve climbed
through The Needle聮s Eye.
Lost Property
Imagine
that, due to a freak (but benign) earthquake, Shropshire disappears.
That is the basic premise of the first programme in our Sense
of Place series, which aims to identify just what it is that
makes the county distinct.
A Curlew over the Mall
The very best way to represent the true essence of Shropshire
on the radio is to record and broadcast those sounds that make
the county what it is - the unique and typical sounds of Shropshire.
Penguin Jumpers and Polo Necks
This programme contrasts Salopians' renowned generosity and
enthusiasm for off-the-wall projects with their apparent reluctance
to face up to the harsh realities of modern society. |
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How
to Spake Salop
Part One 12.05 pm Sunday May 5th 2002
Repeated 6.30pm Wednesday May 8th 2002
Part Two 12.05 pm Sunday May 12th 2002
Repeated 6.30pm Wednesday May 15th 2002
In 11 years of travelling the county Georgina F. Jackson noted 11,000
Shropshire words, and their pronunciation, for posterity.
A century
later Valerie Kilford of Trench in Telford conducted a similar exercise.
She was then a student travelling to Kidderminster College everyday
by bus.
One day - without thinking - she used the Shropshire phrase "to
go all around The Wrekin" to describe the circuitous route the
bus took and was surprised to discover her fellow students didn聮t
understand her. So she too set about collecting words and phrases
which seemed to be in common use in Shropshire, but not elsewhere.
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Richard
Beaumond
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About
the same time, retired railwayman Ken Jones of Little Wenlock was
busy with an aged recorder, taping the true sounds of Shropshire dialect
and accents from people who聮d been born in the county in the
19th century and who still spoke proper Shropshire.
Using
these three sources - and new recordings of modern day Shropshire
voices 聳 presenter Richard Beaumond and actress Val Littlehales
(both born and bred in the county) explore the true sounds of Shropshire
speech, then and now.
Contrary
to popular belief, speaking Shropshire is still going strong. So much
so that Margaret Thatcher used it quite recently to criticise the
Labour Party!
And according to William Caxton - the father of English Print 聳
everyone in The Realm should speak just like we do in Shropshire.
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