English dialects demonstrate considerable variation in their pronominal systems, and pronouns in North East England often contrast with those found in Standard English. As this anecdote published in the Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend in 1887 illustrates, the pronominal idiosyncrasies of the region's English have long been the subject of comment, and Dr Mike Pearce gives us his take on the subject in the form of an article published in English Today, which explores how the North East pronoun system manifests itself in a large, naturalistic corpus of online writing (other aspects of the morphology and syntax of North East English are explored on Mike's research website).
Pearce, Michael. 2020. The Participatory Vernacular Web and Regional Dialect Grammar: A New Account of Pronouns in North East England. English Today.
