the dialect county-wide was A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect (1875), produced under the Manchester Literary Club. The editors, John H. Nodal and George Milner, noted substantial variation between northern and southern Lancashire and the difficulty of drawing a precise boundary. They aimed to represent pronunciation with a consistent spelling approach and used "Glossic" symbols for pronunciation.

Survey of English Dialects and related research

Led by Harold Orton at the University of Leeds,

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