A dialect word's progressive erosion in England and expansion overseas: 'skerrick'

Ryan, John Sprott

A dialect word's progressive erosion in England and expansion overseas: 'skerrick'

Title

A dialect word's progressive erosion in England and expansion overseas: 'skerrick'

Publication Date

1999

Author(s)

Ryan, John Sprott

Type of document

Journal Article

Language

Entity Type

Publication

Publisher

University of Sheffield, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT)

Place of publication

United Kingdom

UNE publication id

une:2184

Abstract

The central theme of the 1999 publication from the ongoing English Dialect Lexicon project at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) at the University of Sheffield, 'Lexical Erosion in English Regional Dialects', exemplifies a concern to record particular cases of the general and observable trend that "many regional dialect words and expressions familiar to the older generations were not being taken up in the everyday speech of younger people."

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Citation

Lore and Language, 17(1-2), p. 49-55

ISSN

0307-7144

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