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Lancelot Salkeld Porter
THE LAKELAND DIALECT SOCIETY [ What is it?.. .. I'll tell the'.]
We're nut stuck up er prood i't mooth Fer t'main on us was bred in't fells, We're nobbut wiet, yammly, fwoak Off t'seeam switch as yersels.
An' like yersels, we clag tight tull 0't bits o'country ways an' looar; We like ta hod a crack aboot T'auld dale-fwoak' at hev gone afooar.
Mi fadder, (an' nea doot he's reet), Sez t's main o't' fell fwoak er o't seame They "Hawk tagidder" on a drag, Till Foxy's brush is hung on t'beame.
He sez 'at t' interest (like t' auld Fox) Is rousan 'noo fer thee an' me, Soo join, yersels, an git yer kin Ta join oor own Society.
From The Works of Lance Porter - Lakeland Treasury Compiled and edited by Ted Relph and Published by the Society |
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'HOO'S TA GAAN ON' Harold Forsyth's Cumberland Tales published by LDS. Editor Ted Relph See Publications for details |
Updated 16 January 2008
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