Parliamo Shropshire!

One can’t help where one’s born and that often affects how one speaks. It certainly did for me. Until I left home to go to do my degree, I spoke Shropshire dialect.

On 5th February I tweeted the text below to link to a report in the Shropshire Star about a new project which is going to be mapping Shropshire dialects:

I started out saying anna, cunna and wunna and went to Shoesbree for a treat. #Shropshire dialect

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Today I was delighted to note I’d received the response below in dialect from the @shroppiemon Twitter account.

@wood5y yer munna say cunna it inna polite and yer munna say wunna cos that inna roite*.

* For non-Salopians: “You mustn’t say cannot, it isn’t polite and you mustn’t say won’t because that isn’t right”.