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The Talk of the Toon

DECTE is funded by:The Diachronic Electronic

Corpus of Tyneside English

Dialect Word PuzzleCan you work out the dialect words

from their meanings?Use the clues to fill in the blanks

and work out what the key word is.

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

Continue to next slide for more clues ...

and the answers

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Quick Clues: 1. A child or baby. 2. Pleasant, nice. 3. Filthy, dirty.4. An old man 5. Pretty, handsome 6. Type of bread

Key Word:the letters inthe red boxes

spell out another word

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

1. A child or baby. There’s A I R in the middle. [5 letters]

2. Pleasant, nice. It rhymes with granny. [5 letters]

3. Filthy, dirty. Begins with h. [5 letters]

4. An old man. _ A D _ _ E. [6 letters]

5. Pretty, handsome or fine. “A _____ baby”. [5 letters]

6. A flat round loaf of bread. A ______ cake. [6 letters]

Key Word: the sounds of a person’s speech NEXT: the answers

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

B A I R N1.

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1. A child or baby. There’s A I R in the middle. [5 letters]

Key Word Clue

The sounds of a person’s speech.

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

B A I R N

C A N N Y

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2. Pleasant, nice. It rhymes with granny. [5 letters]

Key Word Clue

The sounds of a person’s speech.

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

B A I R N

C A N N Y

CH A K Y

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3. Filthy, dirty. Begins with h. [5 letters]

Key Word Clue

The sounds of a person’s speech.

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

B A I R N

C A N N Y

CH A K Y

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EG A D G I

4. An old man. _ A D _ _ E. [6 letters]

Key Word Clue

The sounds of a person’s speech.

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

B A I R N

C A N N Y

CH A K Y

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EG A D G I

NB O N Y

5. Pretty, handsome or fine. “A _____ baby”. [5 letters]

Key Word Clue

The sounds of a person’s speech.

The Talkof the Toon

Dialect Word Puzzle

Key Word Clue

The sounds of a person’s speech.

B A I R N

C A N N Y

CH A K Y

1.

2.

3.

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5.

6.

EG A D G I

NB O N Y

TS O T T Y

6. A flat round loaf of bread. A ______ cake. [6 letters]

The Talk of the ToonDialect Word Puzzle

Can you make a puzzle like thisof your own, using local words

that you know?