But when the Guardian asked its readers to contribute their favourite dialect words, it discovered not one, but two. The words were not previously known to the British Library researchers who worked on the project, nor do they appear in the English Dialect Dictionary. The British Library found that many of the words and phrases were previously recorded as dialect in sources ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary, the English Dialect Dictionary, the Dictionary of Scots Dialect and many sources in between. However, he also pointed to the different words contributed by the different generations which also points to how language evolves. Ginnel Tenfoot Squinny Ginnel and Tenfoor are among the many words contributed for alleyway.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2017 06:56 UTC