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1976: Dialects of Yorkshire Fishermen | Word of Mouth | BBC Archive
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23:38Now PlayingWord of Mouth is a series of six programmes which traces the pattern of speech in Britain today.
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg with comments by Alan Binns - a senior lecturer at the University of Hull and one of Britain's leading dialect experts.
The language of work provides a vocabulary which often spills outside the narrow confines of an industry. Nowhere is this more true than in fishing. The coble fishermen of Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast and the deep-sea trawlermen of Hull have provided names for sea and land alike. Their language steers between words which reflect their Scandinavian past and those drawn from the new technological hardware of their industry.
Clip taken from Word of Mouth: The Way You Work is The Way You Talk, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 2 September, 1976.
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