Wednesday, 1 November 2017

The Stoke on Trent Dialect

All of my great grandparents were born and lived in the Stoke on Trent area of Staffordshire.  They spoke in a very distinctive dialect and often used words which I have never heard anywhere else.  I thought it would be interesting to preserve these words and try to find out more about where they came from.
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