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D 29, eastern south midland

a wide area from leicestershire to north warwickshire to east shropshire

this dialect district has a lot of interesting features, like verbal plurals with -en, some nouns marking the plural with -en, and "am" used for more than just the first person singular eg. "we am" -> "wim". the breaking of the middle english /ɛː/ vowel can combine with yod-coalescence to make forms like "jed, jeth" for "dead, death".

examples

the videos linked here might have dialect stuff in them, but i've not gone through all of them yet. this one is about the dialect and this one is entirely in it

other videos: