Reporting of the Annual Lecture
The Morpeth Herald reported this year’s annual Bibby Memorial Lecture on 13th October. Their coverage is below.
Tag: Accent
The sound of words, as opposed to the spelling of words
Bibby Lecture given by Warren Maguire
This year’s annual lecture was delivered by Dr Warren Maguire, of Edinburgh University. He took as the basis of his talk Thomas Wilson’s famous poem The Pitman’s Pay and demonstrated how … Read More
Bi-lingual?
The Northumbrian Language contains words which Standard English does not. Moreover, the dialect and accent can only be expressed in print by altering the spelling of common words to better … Read More