Potteries dialect
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The Potteries dialect is a dialect found in the North West Midlands of England, particularly in and around Stoke-on-Trent.
A popular cartoon called May un Mar Lady, created by Dave Follows, appears in The Sentinel newspaper and is written in the Potteries dialect.
Other West Midlands English dialects are:
- Black Country (Yam Yam)
- Brummie (spoken in Birmingham)
The Potteries dialect derives from Anglo-Saxon Old English. Example words:
“Nesh” meaning soft, tender, or to easily get cold is derived from the early English, “nesc, nescenes.” “Slat” meaning to throw, is from the old English “slath,” moved. "Sheed" meaning to spill liquids, most likely derived from the word "shed" in the sense of getting rid of something.
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