Talk:Dawley

Dialect
This section seems a bit vague. Does Madeley really have a distincitive dialect from that of the rest of Telford/East Shropshire? It's also unsourced. Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 18:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The section does seem to have issues, and I have removed some content that I felt did not fit in the article. The examples of the dialect given do seem reminiscent of other dialects from the West Midlands, so I am not sure about how unique/notable the dialect therefore is.  I am a bit concerned by the statement that "In the past, this has led to some discussion on whether the dialect could qualify as a language in its own right.", as it strikes me as being worded in a weaselly way.  Perhaps the dialect section could be pruned down further to remove unsourced statements and be converted into maybe just a short sentence/paragraph elsewhere in the article? Mouchoir le Souris (talk) 19:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've had an internet search and realistically we're never going to find reliable sources for the section, so I'm just going to go ahead and delete it. We can't have some person looking at the article taking the section seriously if we're not even sure any of it is true. Regards, Asdfasdf1231234 ( talk ) 20:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you may be right there, and therefore removing unsourceable statements would mean removing the whole lot, so the deletion has been the best course of action, and given the fairly old "Fact" tag in amongst it all, it seems no-one else so far had been successful at sourcing it. Mouchoir le Souris (talk) 22:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

The Dawley dialect is NOT similar to the West Midland dialects. I know, as I have lived in both areas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.208.114.13 (talk) 11:12, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Dawley is very distinct from the West Midland dialect. Sir John Betjemen did a remarkably good stab at it in his recording of his poem A Shropshire Lad about Captain Webb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jnT4tOl_qQ

Incidentally "bist" has nothing to do with German. It is a contraction of "How be'est thou?"