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Thread #61225 Message #3603806
Posted By: Jim Carroll
22-Feb-14 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: Becket Whitehead, Delph, Saddleworth, UK
Subject: RE: Becket Whitehead, Delph, Saddleworth, UK
Hi Marcus
Didn't get your Beckett stuff - thanks for your trouble.
Can you confirm your e-mail address - it keeps bouncing
Have tried to send a contact number for Peggy with details of where the songs were filed, suggesting you contact her
Regarding dialect writing, I'm no expert, but I've always believed poets like Axon and Waugh were fairly accurate, so comparing their writing to your own seems a fairly safe way to go - should be easy enough to find some of their stuff in your part of the country - local libraries are a tremendous help in rural areas, I've found.
From a layman's point of view, it reads just like Harry Boardman used to sound as I remember him
Know what you mean by dialect experts - worse than bloody wine posers, some of them.
Best
Jim Carroll