Cheshire dialect
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The Cheshire dialect is a West Midlands English dialect which is extremely similar to the Potteries and Stokie dialects of Staffordshire.[vague]
The dialect has existed for centuries, distinct from standard English, the religious poem St. Erkenwald (poem) was written in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century in this dialect.[1] It has some words that are distinct from standard English such as "Shippen" for cattle-house.[2]
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