{"id":10237,"date":"2022-08-29T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:14:58","slug":"the-great-big-dialect-hunt-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/08\/29\/the-great-big-dialect-hunt-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Big Dialect Hunt, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien&#8217;s old stamping ground the University of Leeds has made public a large collection of English dialects. They are now calling for more to be added to their <em>Survey of English Dialects<\/em>, following fresh funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a website for this with a survey form, <a href=\"https:\/\/dialectandheritage.org.uk\/the-great-big-dialect-hunt-2\/\">The Great Big Dialect Hunt<\/a>.  They&#8217;re specifically looking for local dialect words and phrases used in&#8230; &#8220;your everyday speech with family and friends&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/dialect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/dialect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"219\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey has a set of structured questions about everyday situations, easy to answer. There&#8217;s no &#8220;form sent&#8221; confirmation sent at the end of survey, but the form then gets blanked and I assume it&#8217;s sent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien&#8217;s old stamping ground the University of Leeds has made public a large collection of English dialects. They are now calling for more to be added to their Survey of English Dialects, following fresh funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. There&#8217;s now a website for this with a survey form, The Great Big Dialect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}