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Perhaps What We Need Is More Local Dialect, Not Less! 10 NEWS www.EDP24.co.uk/news Eastern Daily Press, Saturday, June 23, 2012 GREAT YARMOUTH Police hunt for Perhaps what we need is robber after crime spree Police are hunting for a woman who more local dialect, not less! they believe robbed a pensioner and assaulted two taxi drivers in a crime PETER Picture: SUBMITTED spree in Great Yarmouth. Detectives believe the incidents TRUDGILL, were all carried out by a lone woman between 3.15pm and 7pm in the town president of centre on Thursday and are now appealing for information. Friends of The first incident happened at Norfolk around 3.15pm in the Pasteur Road area when two women, both in their Dialect 70s, were approached by a woman who demanded they hand over a (FOND), takes issue handbag. Both the elderly victims were left with EDP columnist shaken. A short time later a male taxi driver Ken Hurst’s suggestion picked up a woman in the Market that “the sooner we Gates area and during the journey she assaulted the cabbie, leaving him give up this dialect the with facial injuries and also stole cash. better.” Later, at about 6.50pm, a second male taxi driver picked up a female passenger, again in the Market Gates area, and he was also assaulted and It’s amazing how often people who had cash stolen. don’t know anything at all about Due to the time and location of the language still feel free to pontificate incidents, officers believe the same about it in public. Language person may be responsible for each professionals like me – I’ve been a crime. university teacher of linguistics The woman is described as white, for 40 years – are constantly being aged in her 30s with brown/auburn surprised by these pontificators hair and of scruffy appearance. – people like Ken Hurst. But Ken’s Detective Inspector Sarah Pettengell column – where he tells Norfolk said it was “very unusual” to get people that “the sooner we give up “lone female robbery assailants”. this dialect the better it will be” – is a N Call police on 101 or Crimestoppers particularly surprising example. on 0800 555 111. And not just surprising. Telling Norfolk people how we ought to speak ONWARDS AND UPWARDS: Norfolk and proud was the order of the day for these Canaries supporters in 1959. seems like arrogance to me, especially NORWICH And, says Peter Trudgill, we should be just as proud of our local dialect today. when you start from a position of profound linguistic ignorance. And Eastern Daily Press, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 www.EDP24.co.uk/news OPINION 23 OUR MUSEUM EDP ON YOUR MOBILE What do you think of Read all your EDP Even if you Norfolk buildings? news wherever you are Singer denies when I say ignorance, I do mean WWW.EDP24.CO.UK/MUSEUM M.EDP24.CO.UK he reckons we should all speak like ignorance. Look at what Ken says: LYNNE him instead – he certainly seems to started with a The sooner we give up this MORTIMER “there’s an argument to be had”, he dialect the better it will be believe that he knows how English assault charges reckons, about accent and dialect. No total absence of “should be spoken”. KEN HURST We could do worse there isn’t! Any first-year linguistics than turn to verse... Ken also seems to think that getting Education Secretary Michael Gove proposes regionally that young schoolchildren should learn and recite poetry by heart. I sincerely hope this will spark renewed student will tell you that accent is interest in nursery rhymes. rid of the local dialect would make Singer Dane Bowers has been charged These rhythmically pleasing, often politically incorrect, verses are childhood staples. It’s 35 years since I first walked Deceptively simple, many of them have innocently into the maelstrom of deeper meanings but, when you’re five, you’re about pronunciation, while dialect is distinctive opinions that surround regional unlikely to be bothered by allegation of our region a more “open-minded”, with racially aggravated assault, dialects and accents in these parts. bubonic plague allusions in the singing rhyme A colleague from Norfolk – let’s call Ring-a-ring-a roses. him John – was the newly elected In nursery rhyme illustrations Mary, Mary chairman of the East Anglian branch Quite Contrary is usually shown as a pretty of a national editorial association to Victorian maid watering her silver bells and about grammar and vocabulary as which I belonged, a role he saw as an cockle shells... not as Queen (Bloody) Mary forward-looking place. But Ken after a stag party in the city. opportunity to spread broad Norfolk with her instruments of torture, which the wherever he went. Roger, another words are reputed to reference. speech, dialects colleague, but from Essex in the outer Humpty Dumpty, the well-known egg, was reaches of greater East Anglia, was more likely to have been a cannon used at well as pronunciation. There’s his vice-chairman, an upwardly Colchester during the English Civil War. himself is a very poor advert for this The DJ, who topped the charts with mobile estuary-English sort of a None of this mattered when I was five. man. Nor was my impressionable young mind Roger didn’t have much time for TIME TO GO? Some people embrace the Norfolk dialect – but not Ken Hurst. seduced by the idea, propounded in Jack and John, being particularly critical of Jill, of administering vinegar and brown what he regarded as the intellectual corner shop wherein all the customers Notwithstanding a determined paper to a flesh wound. nothing to argue about. denigration of the region every time are happily gossiping in English until effort by the BBC to overturn its Skipping chants, verses and children’s idea. We have a tradition here in boyband Another Level in the late would develop – – which was often – John Boy laid on an Englishman enters, upon which historic bias towards the even more songs learned in the playground or at mother’s with a trowel his strongly accented the shoppers instantly revert to their awful and, thankfully, even closer to knee are bequeathed from generation to dialect when contributing the East native Welsh. oblivion plum-in-the-mouth aristo- generation. Anglian perspective to any given Despite what sometimes seems an speak by seeking out token Geordies They are, or were, part of a childhood national debate. almost universal love of nostalgia, to demonstrate its revisionist policy package that also included learning to tie your And “you see”, Ken writes “The last thing our under- the day of regional dialects is largely Let us leave of employing linguistic diversity, a shoelaces. Has that all gone? Norwich of being pretty open-minded nineties, stands accused of two represented backwater of a region done. They continue to exist only as stigma of parochial and ill-educated Certainly Velcro must have had a detrimental needs is the village idiot offering up leftovers of isolation and all that is, mangled unworldliness sticks obstinately to impact on shoelaces but do primary children this is retrograde opinions, jabbering in a in the long term, unsustainable about language to the those unable or unwilling to properly no longer recite “One potato, two potato, three language no one can understand, and limited horizons and a geographically anthropologists, speak and spell the Queen’s English. potato, four; five potato, six potato, seven patronisingly, “regional dialects are a leaving the impression that we’re all restricted gene pool. That apart, there’s also the question potato, more”? about most things – we even let people counts of assault and one of racially like that,” just about summed up Far from being constrained by the collectors of of whether or not dialects/accents And before Mr Gove takes out his fountain Roger’s rather harsh judgment. economic hardship, modern day are, in any case, acoustically pen to send me a beautifully-scripted letter of I warrant that the natural reaction opportunities for travel and curiosities... and attractive accoutrements to the rebuke, with perfect spelling and grammar, I around here – or maybe around betterment will only be enhanced by members of the English language. In this, you might am aware that more than one spud is potatoes anywhere – will be to empathise with the mobility that is increasingly say, beauty is in the ear of the but this was the version I learned. Poetic bit yesterday”. No, they are not. And John Boy. There he was, single necessary to secure employment. awkward squad beholder, but that is not quite so. licence. like Ken write in our newspapers. aggravated harassment. happening in handedly holding back a rising tide Even a century or more ago, my Most of us try to avoid talking to Every little boy and girl should be able to opposed to of homogeneity, thus endearing own grandparents left their fast- people in telephone call centres at all, enjoy uncomplicated poetic pleasures such as himself to the hundreds, or maybe disappearing occupations as colonel’s pretty much but when we do, consumer research The Owl and the Pussycat. thousands, of you who worship all coachman and below-stairs cook in anything expresses a marked preference for Edward Lear’s nonsense rhyme made total never will be. Dialects do change things traditionally Norfolk, laud search of pavements of gold down listening to those who speak modern sense to me when I was small. But if I want to go to a place which is The 32-year-old pleaded not guilty to those who champion them, and argue south.
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