Link: Listen to the local Suffolk accent and dialect online

[Suffolk Mawther]

For those of you who might wonder what the Suffolk accent sounds like when you are pondering various transcripts, the British Library has some wonderful Suffolk voices to listen to here from the George Ewart Evans collection :


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Wonderful to hear once again the Brandeston blacksmith Hector Moore - he was a lovely chap and an extremely talented craftsman.

There are a great many recordings, so you may be up late tonight 

A friend tells me this one is his favourite

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0cke/

Dew yew listen to what this owd bor hev to say 


Pat ...

* Now amended and double checked *

[macbeth]

Hi Pat
I don't seem to able to get to these links. One gets a "not redirectling properly"  and the other gets a "404 page not found". Do you think you might b able to re-post them, please

cheers
Beth

[Suffolk Mawther]

Will try to shrink the links again, the originals are very long so not acceptable to Rootschat.

Thank you for letting me know.

Pat ...

[Hephzibah]

Thanks Pat for informing us of this site.
Wonderful to hear Hector as well as the variations throughout the county
Hephzibah

[Suffolk Mawther]

Isn't it brilliant 

It was Nick Jenkins who let us know about it, thanks to the amazing George Ewart Evans and now Nick, we can hear these voices.

Nick has the fledgling Suffolk dialect map, which gives us the variations around the county - something I mentioned in a post on here earlier.  It isn't the same throughout the county is it?

Gosh though, another time waster eh???


Pat ...

[percy porter]

Just finished reading a reprint of his book "Ask the fellows who cut the hay" and exellent book as are all the others he has written. It certainly gave me a real insight into my forbears who were all Ag Labs in Hoo untill the move to London around the time of the industrial revolution in the early to mid 1800s'

Alan NZ

[Suffolk Mawther]

Bumping this up the list as we were talking about it at the meeting in Stowmarket this morning and one or two Rootchatters had missed seeing it first time around 

Good to see everyone, hope you all arrived home safely.

See you all in the autumn.

Pat ...

[sarah]

Hi Pat,

The top link is not working I have not been able to locate the right one 

Regards

Sarah

[Suffolk Mawther]

Will check with Nick to see what is happening on this website 

Hope to be back soon with new links.

Pat ...