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School ofEnglish Literature, Language & Linguistics
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.
3.
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5.
6.
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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2.
3.
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5.
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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
1.
2.
3.
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5.
6.
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
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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.
4.
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?