Wigan Billinge dialect 10 / 10

[@northwestgpl1189]

My beautiful dialect - the opportunity’s to speak it are so thin these days even in Billinge you can be looked at like you have two heads for speaking it Dialect is so comfy it’s like slipping into warm Panama’s after a day in the rain My job is speaking all day on the phone and it’s like torture to come home and slip into that warming, Germanic tone Thank you for posting this

[@dondamienbillings]

Native American Billings here trying to reconnect the lands original tongues

[@joeymediauk]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE RE-UPLOAD!

[@fmalina8155]

You’re welcome :)

[@jackalker6384]

This is brilliant

[@shelleyalker3722]

I understood most of what was said. Loved this! ☺️

[@paddycash7016]

❤❤❤❤ sounds like my grandfather 😢

[@stefenney3126]

I'm sure that the one wearing glasses is Tony Case - he ran Whitesides estate agents in Main Street Billinge in the 80's.

[@fmalina8155]

Yes, that’s Tony Case ;)

[@ruthevans1249]

Oh music to my ears… gotta love Wigan my grandad spoke like this 😂

[@nigelcarter6734]

The Holt Arms or The Foot was my local for years

[@Explorations84]

Mr. Malina, how do I contact you? I'm interested in the origins of this video.

[@nigelcarter6734]

Ah wuz barn a’ Billinge ‘ospital

[@realynnmiller5814]

Surely none speaks like this

[@fmalina8155]

The dialect declined since the ‘60s. Speakers will not talk like that to non speakers or in front of them, but will among themselves at home or when they don’t want non speakers to understand or when the feelings are high. Mr Case on the left died, but Fred on the right was still well and …erm something… and gallivanting all morn’ daily last time I checked

[@nigelcarter6734]

Not so much anymore. Like most dialects it’s died out in a far more global world. Time was, I could tell within a couple of miles where someone was from, around the Wigan area.

[@gehadsalem6593]

The Wiganese must protect their dialect because it's a part of who they are.

[@missmuffet3874]

They did. My maternal grandparents born in Edwardian times just outside of Wigan spoke like this in the house and to their peers. I can understand nearly every word these two gentlemen say without looking at the subtitles. 😂❤