LINGUISTS have started an investigation into whether regional dialects are dead or, as they used to say in these parts, just a little “wambly”. Publisher Collins hopes to trace whether dialect words ...

Willem Hollman is an expert in linguistics and a lecturer at Lancaster University. He's currently working on a project looking into the grammatical features that define Lancashire as being a distinct ...

A GHOSTLY tale told by a Harwood barmaid born in 1882 and the recollections of a retired Blackrod couple have been included in an Internet sound archive. A recording of Polly Morris, made in 1954, ...

If you do, you could help to save some traditional Lancashire words that are thought to have become extinct. Publisher Collins has launched a scheme to trace rare dialect words that may have slipped ...