Still whanging? Dialect hunt aims to update prized English language archive
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#5YMS0)
Leeds University shares library of 1950s vernacular and launches project to preserve today's phrases
Was you or were you having your tea, dinner or supper last night? Before it, were you feeling clammish, clemmed, starving, hungry, leary or just plain clempt?
Are you still whanging in Yorkshire? Haining in Somerset? Hocksing in Cambridgeshire? Hoying in Durham? Pegging in Cheshire? Pelting in Northamptonshire? Yarking in Leicestershire? Or do you throw now?
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