Always on
This project successfully funded on 2nd April 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
doant let our dialect die
Louth, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Aim
To pay for a touchscreen in our museum and library which will help preserve and protect Lincolnshire dialect for future generations
The money raised will pay for the production and installation of a touchscreen in our local museum and library for 10 years. The touchscreen will allow the users to listen to poems and stories in Lincolnshire dialect, and also have a go at speaking in Lincolnshire dialect themselves. Users will learn about the origins of Lincolnshire dialect and the East Lincolnshire Dialect Society, aka Far Welter’d. They can listen to poems by established dialect authors, including Tennyson, as well as audio recordings of original poems by our Far Welter’d members.
There'll also be fun activities, such as having a go at reading out an on-screen dialect sentence and then clicking to hear the sentence being read out by a dialect speaker. They will then be asked to think about what it means and then click to get a translation. Here’s an example.
Dialect: Now doöern’t touch them tarts, the jam’s razzlin and yer’ll bonn yer lalloper.
Translation: Now don’t touch those tarts, the jam’s very hot and you’ll burn your tongue.
An important aim of this project is that younger users will be able to hear the spoken word as their grandparents or even great grandparents may have spoken it. We also hope that it will contribute to local pride in our town and county, in raising awareness of an important part of our heritage: our dialect.
Lincolnshire dialect is one of the finest dialects in the country. Tennyson, a local lad and Queen Victoria’s Poet Laureate, spoke Lincolnshire dialect all his life.
Please help us to meet our target.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made