Steve Birks, a Potter himself, and chronicler of the Stoke on Trent area, tells us about the origins of the local dialect of North Staffordshire... The existence of dialects is not unique to the North ...
Find out more about this huge project to survey Staffordshire people's ways of speech, and languages Can you come up with local words, phrases or sayings? From "nesh" to "ronk"... Accents and dialects ...