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The Staffordshire Dialect Project

Find out more about this huge project to survey Staffordshire people's ways of speech, and languages

Can you come up with local words, phrases or sayings? From "nesh" to "ronk"...

Accents and dialects across Staffordshire vary widely. Hear some examples

Local historian Steve Birks traces the origins of the local dialect of North Staffordshire

Test your knowledge of the local lingo from around the UK with our interactive word-guessing game
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