Dialect Festival less than a week away.. !
Don’t forget next weekend is the National Dialect Festival. be sure to get your Dinner tickets and diarise the events you wish to see and/or participate in. Click HERE if … Read More
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National Dialect Festival 2024
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The Programme for this Year’s Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering
Follow thw the link below for the full programme of events at this year’s Gathering – our Northumbrian Eisteddfod Once opened, use the links in the top left for up-to-date … Read More
Singing out to save the Northumbrian dialect
THE Northumbrian dialect has been celebrated in song at Morpeth. And it came as music to the ears of members of the Northumbrian Language Society. Every year it invites a … Read More
Morpeth Bull Inspires Songwriter
A BEEF about a bull inspired Morpeth dialect songwriter Graham Bell. A sculpture at Sanderson Arcade is a nod to the days when the town was home to one of … Read More
MP Ian Lavery Launches the Society’s new dictionary – A Northumbrian Wordhoard
WANSBECK MP Ian Lavery helped launch a dialect dictionary at Morpeth. The pitman turned parliamentarian was an ideal choice for the job, never having lost his own northern accent since … Read More