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Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth: Lost in England? Ask for a bread roll

Cobs, baps, barm cakes and the wonders of dialect geography

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

If Manchester University is to be believed, last year saw a creeping advance of effete southern language into the gritty north. Roll, for example, is more widely accepted as the name of a little loaf of bread.

Certainly I remember 40 years ago asking in a Manchester baker’s for some rolls.

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