Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

Conditions in rural England around the turn of the 20th century offer a case study for cultural evolution researchers. Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images If you need to hit a nail, what ...

A British Library collection of regional words and phrases shows that language is still evolving. If you’re shilpit, you’ll be able to shuck on your dead ronking kecks as far as your oxters. It could ...

Does modern Yorkshire still boast a distinctive dialect? Rod McPhee got some answers from Professor Clive Upton of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

Battered notebooks, in faded scrawl, old maps and tinny audio reels; the treasured relics that remain as the hard graft and brass tacks of the most famous dialect survey of all. Did you know with a ...

When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak the same language as you or have a different accent. You’ll also notice if they use different ...