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Lakeland Dialect Society

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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

Canon R. D. Ellwood

"If we were asked why we love the dialect and find delight in hearing and studying it, we should be led to give three reasons. First, because it enables us to recall the forefathers of our race, their ways, their sayings and their doings. Second, because it is so closely associated in our minds with the beauty of the lake and tarn, of fellside and ling, with bracken and herdwick sheep. Third, and most chiefly, because we have learnt greatly to hold in affectionate esteem the folk who speak the dialect, and it is to knit more closely this bond of brotherhood that our Dialect Society was founded and continues to prosper."