Warrington's dialect and influences of places like Liverpool

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You may be interested in a website about a project to document Warrington's dialect.

Robert Brooks, who runs the site, is a Warrington-born linguist who has a new
theory about where Warrington got its name. He posits that the Viking influence
of the Wirral and West Lancashire - as illustrated by Viking place names -
suggest that Warrington may be a Viking name as well.

They could only sail as far upstream as Warrington, so it would have been the
place where they had to land their boats.

Robert is from Great Sankey and grew up with friends who moved from Liverpool as
young children or who were born there but whose families moved from Liverpool.
As such, the western parts of Warrington - Sankey and Penketh - have Liverpool
dialect words.

There's a website and Facebook page called WIRELECT which is all about
the Warrington dialect.
The details are: http://www.wire-lect.blogspot.com/
and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wirelect- ... 5943269582

You can help WIRELECT build up a database of Warrington words and phrases by
emailing them in.