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The first main article is by K.E. Smith who explores J B PRIESTLEY AND YORKSHIRE SPEECH. A slightly edited version of a talk given to the J B Priestley Society, it explores various aspects of Yorkshire-ness in both the man and charachters from his novels and plays.

Arnold Kellet, the previous editor, writes about dialect dictionaries. A compiler himself, he reports on the gloassaries which preceeded the first proper dictionary. As Kellet is one who always cites his sources, it is sad to read of subsequent compilers who have blatantly plagiarised his work.

Jeremey Muldowney contributes a fascinating article on what might be called Yorkshire Nautical Dialect. His search for words connected with ships and the sea, centres not so much on the coast from Whitby to Scarborough as on Hull and the Humber Keel. From there he roams inland up the Ouse to Selby and into the Isle of Axeholme along the Dutch-built canals.

Andrew Breeze writes about a boundary stone on the North York Moors, whilst new editor, Brian Spencer, writes on ELIZABETH GASKELL AND THE DIALECT OF WHITBY.

These articles show the wide-ranging nature of the publication, which will be of interest to readers well beyond the boundaries of God's own country.

These transactions begin with a couple of obituaries, those of Jack Danby MBE, and Marjorie Harwood. They are reminders of the impact that an individual can make through warmth of personality and personal dedication.

This publication thrives on diversity. Articles range from the technical to the comic, in addition to those relating to the business of the society such as the Honorary Secretary's and Honorary Treasurer's reports and balance sheet.

Perhaps it is inevitable that for many people considerations of dialect involve pangs of nostalgia. Different topics will touch one in various ways, e.g. if one had had personal experience of a particular craft, there may be a whole associated dialect vocabulary for specific tools, materials, and processes. Again, the micro-dialect of a certain closely-bounded region could suddenly live in the recollection of a former inhabitant. The article LIQUORICE ROOTS by Nigel Leary neatly brings together both of these aspects in recounting some of the material presented at a meeting in Pontefract in July 2002, a celebration of the agricultural, social, and manufacturing history of liquorice.

TEXT TRANSFORMATION by Charlotte Green presents her re-working of Oscar Wilde's DE PROFUNDIS into Yorkshire dialect, along with an analysis of her motivation for the project and summary of some of the technical problems involved.

SCHWYZERDÜTSCH by JPC Toalster is an entertaining article, in which while introducing some of the peculiarities of the Swiss dialect of German, the author touches on more general phonetic principles.

The title of Andrew Breeze's LAGENTIUM, THE ROMAN NAME OF CASTLEFORD might sound a little dry, but this short philological enquiry generates a wealth of imagery, and is cogently argued.

A SURVEY OF YORKSHIRE DIALECT ON THE INTERNET by Gerald England gives a brief overview of available material.

As always, there is an abiding interest in the work of dialect authors past and present. THE DIALECT POEMS OF SHERWIN STEPHENSON by James Ogden introduces us to this poet's accounts of mill life and some of the topography and personalities that impressed his imagination, while THE LAUREATE OF HOLDERNESS by Brian Spencer looks at the dialect writing of Edward Charles Booth. Contemporary pieces include the prose works MIDDIN-JUMPIN by Stanley Ellis, THE STORY OF THE ELLAND FEUD by Ernest Beaumont, and several short poems.

The Transactions of The Yorkshire Dialect Society carries the usual annual reports, but these take up only a small space. The main pages are devoted to an interesting and diverse range of articles. The first of these is a reprint from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography of the entry written by Arnold Kellet about Professor Joseph Wright who was the founding father of the YDS.

Barrie M Rhodes contributes an article on BLACKSMITH'S WORDS. The article is well illustrated with drawings and diagrams. Much more than a discourse on etymolgy, it offers a fascinating insight into the operation of a village smithy.

Other articles concern a German innkeeper who could speak Yorkshire Dialect but not English, Ilkley and the Roman fort of Olenacum, the dialect of Filey, the music of dialect and the poet John Castillo. Born in Ireland about 1792 and educated in Lincolnshire, Castillo renounced catholicism and became a Methodist, working and living in the North Yorkshire Dales above Pickering. His poem PEOPLE AT WORSHIP begins:

	Ah've seen young men, and wimmin too,
	An' men we't hair all off ther broo,
	Befoore he'z reead hiz lessons through,
		Z'been hard asleep;
	Wharle others 'at better knew.
		Z'been seen to weep.

	Som'times all t' wurld looks silver
	I' t' cooil, clear leet o' t' mooin,
	An' t' mass o' staars 'od t' promise
	Of a fine fo'nooin'.