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Re: lost dialect
I notice Staggers said "thi sel" - with my parents it always used to be "thi sen" as in "get thi sen up them steers!" (go to bed)
Which brings me to the interesting point that it is generally assumed that the Lancashire way of pronouncing "stairs" is "sturs" ( after all the pronunciation for "bear" and "fair" is "burr" and "furr" - "thurr wurr a burr at't furr") but it was always "steers" in our house and yet "stair" rhymes with "bear". Curious isn't it?
On a cold day I was usually advised to "put thi coit on, tha'll catch thi deeath!"
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