PROJECTS
WE ISSUE a newsletter about three times a year.
For copies send your address and a few postage stamps (or e-mail details)
to Bill Griffiths, 21 Alfred Street, Seaham, Co.Durham SR7 7LH
all comments, notes on dialect words,
dialect poems and anecdotes welcome
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available via Northumbria University Press, Trinity Building, Northumbria University, Newcastle on Tyne NE1 8ST:
A DICTIONARY OF NORTH-EAST DIALECT
comprehensive new listing of North-East words with historical introduction
revised enlarged edition, 2006!
£9.99 plus £2.50 p & p.
(cheques payable to 'Northumbria University')
can also be ordered by phone on 0191 227 3387
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(cheques payable to 'Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group' please;
send to DTDG, Bill Griffiths, 21 Alfred Street, Seaham, Co.Durham SR7 7LH)
NORTH EAST DIALECT: THE TEXTS
£7.99 pbk
an anthology of verse and prose writing from all periods, with introductory essay on
aspects of and influences on North-Eastern culture
ALEXANDER BARRASS: THE PITMAN'S SOCIAL NEET
new edition of the 1890s classic, in two parts - text and tunes. Together a moderate £4.
early 20th century dialect stories from Bearpark Colliery. £2.95
a new edition of this chapbook is now available (2006) with a vast o' wise thowts from aal ower th' region
available for £2 in stamps
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b u i l d a d i c t i o n a r y !