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Excerpt from A Grammar of the Dialect of Oldham (Lancashire): Dissertation Zur Erlangung Der Doktorwürde Bei Der Philosophischen Fakultät Der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Ludwigs-Universität Zu Giessen
Moreover, side by side with this recent gradual exten sion of the literary language, we have an undercurrent of conservatism in the form of Literary Clubs and Societies whose object it is to preserve the Folk-speech in its pristine vigour. The efforts of these societies are aided by the mag nificent library of really first-class dialect literature at their disposal from which to select pieces for public readings or recitals and thus to keep alive the love of the old speech among the people. Indeed I think I may say without fear of contradiction that there is hardly any corner of Europe which has produced in comparatively recent years such a phalanx of poetry and prose writers in the dialect as S. E. Lancashire. So great, indeed, is the fame of some of them (edwin Waugh and Ben Brierley for instance) that their works are not only read and enjoyed in their native county but in other parts of England sufficiently remote from the cotton district.
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