In the Saddleworth area where I originate we have a very strange dialect. I am a proud possessor of several books in dialect which very few can understand. My Mum and Dad were native speakers and I learned it alongside normal English. Strangely enough when I read a dialect poem out to our friends from Bergen in Norway they understood it very well and said that I was speaking old Norse! I think it sad that dialects and even accents are fading away - they are part of our rich heritage.
