Dialect Stoke-on-Trent

the potteries has distinctive local dialect. whilst contains many non-standard words (e.g. nesh meaning soft, tender, or cold ; , slat meaning throw ), best known word duck, used greeting either men or women. believed derived saxon word ducas, used indicate respect; in middle english became duc or duk, denotes leader; in turn, became title duke , old french word duché, indicates territory ruled duke.

another common variation on standard english dialect use of word shug sugar. used term of endearment when closing sentence, in ta shug (thank you, sugar).

a local cartoon called may un mar lady (me , wife), published in newspaper sentinel , written in potteries dialect, first appeared on 8 july 1986 , ran on 20 years. since death of cartoonist dave follows in 2003, full twenty-year run (7,000) of may un mar lady strips being republished in sentinel may un mar lady revisited, keeping dialect alive twenty years.

alan povey s owd grandad piggott stories have aired on bbc radio stoke number of years recited in potteries dialect author.