Product Description

This work is a celebration of the dialect spoken in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Staffordshire. The amazing text and cartoon-like illustrations capture the warmth and humour of the East Midlands.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86944 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

lovely book for those you've moved away
The main thing I have left from growing up in Heanor in South
derbyshire is my (some would say broad) local accent.

This book is a wonderfully humorous and affectionate look at
something I hold dear, and has some surprisingly scholarly
discussions of the local drawl next to the funnies.

A must for those who like me no longer live in the area for
when you feel homesick, also just about passes muster as a translation guide :-)

any road tat tar mi ducks SEIVE THEE

Grand!
Being brought up in a mining community on the Notts/Derbys border its refreshing to read my heritage in print......indeed one thing that Thatcher couldn't destroy. A wonderful little book with words and phrases I had not heard since childhood. With the advent of political regionalisation these sort of books ought to be a must in educational establishments to remind children the origins of their fathers, mothers and grandparents dialect. The sort of book you hold for life.

A guide to Derbyshire dialect
If you're mystified by the meaning of words like "jitty" and "sucker", and if you're not sure whether you're being insulted or complimented when you're called "bonny" or told that your tea tastes like "mazziwatter", then you need this book.

"Ey up Mi Duck" is a short book of definitions of Derbyshire dialect words, especially as used in the south Derbyshire town of Ilkeston.