Accommodation Lincolnshire

Welcome to Field View Bed and Breakfast. We designed and built our home to very high standards, with spacious rooms, quality furnishings and tasteful decoration to ensure your stay with us will be as comfortable as possible. We are located 10 minutes north of Lincoln in a peaceful village, ideally situated for exploring the surrounding area.

The accent and dialect words of Lincolnshire are poorly known outside the county when compared to Scouse or Cockney, which have received far more media exposure. The effects of modern media, education, and in-migration to the county have indeed diluted the traditional accent, and many dialect words have been lost. However, the accent certainly exists, and a native 'Yeller Belly' will still easily pick out a Lincolnshire speaker, even distinguishing between the various parts of this large county - the northern residents of Lindsey tending towards Yorkshire dialect; the south-east of the county (Holland and the Fens) more like that of East Anglia.

In common with most other Northern and Midlands dialects in England, "flat" a is preferred, i.e. [baθ] over [bɑθ], and also in words like water, pronounced watter. Features rather more confined to Lincolnshire include:

Elaboration of standard English into a complex triphthong approximating, and often transcribed -air- or -yair-. For example: "mate" ; "beast" ; "tates" (potatoes) .
An equivalent elaboration of standard English - commonly in Northern England - into -ooa-. For example "boat".
Insertion of an extra schwa into the standard English diphthong. For example, the town of Louth is pronounced differently by some inhabitants.
Vocabulary: "duck" as a term of endearment or informal address, "mardy" meaning upset or angry, "while" as a substitute for standard English "until", and the inimitable salutation "now then!?" (hello), sometimes written nairn to reflect pronunciation, but often drawn out into a sing-song nyEEEAaairn-myeeeaaairt!!! in the mouth of the more rural and traditional speaker.
Lincolnshire has its own dialect 'champion', a farmer from the village of Minting called Farmer Wink (real name Robert Carlton), who has produced videos about rural life, narrated in his broad Lincolnshire accent, and who has a regular slot on BBC Radio Lincolnshire.