winter 43.qxp

• cours - matière potentielle : that languages
• leçon - matière potentielle : on the dialect

4 T H E M E R R Y M AW K I N IT WAS GOOD TO RECEIVE my Merry Mawkin again, with much of interest, and contents to excite the nostalgia of such ex-County exiles as myself. Although our good old dialect is pretty obviously doomed – how can it be otherwise in times of nationwide media and youth who travel and communicate widely, and who also hate to be seen/heard as ‘diffrunt'? – there can be no earthly harm in some of us actively striving to preserve it artificially.

• visits to various radio stations
• little paintun on the wall behind the till
• many visits to events with the display
• look at the linguistic history
• middlesex twetty-twetty
• a5 paperback of 104 pages with 24 illustrations
• look
• wall
• painting