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 ...

A NEW survey has shown some English people have more difficulty understanding the Lancashire dialect than they do French and German. Hotel chain Travelodge found almost half of Britons failed to ...

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 ...

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 ...