Dialect is woven in our heritage. It may be a regional dialect that has become scarce with only a few speakers but it indicates our identity and history. Passed on from generation to generation, a dialect evolves and adapts to its speaker. As British dialects are becoming more standardised to the South-East accent; some regional dialects have lost their place in language and have been forgotten.
This hand-embroidered banner represents the mostly lost and forgotten Dorset dialect and how dialect is an important part of peoples’ heritage without them realising; the white on white shows how you have to look closely to see it. It also represents dialect levelling, a term that describes how some dialects are dying out and are being replaced with a standard English South-East accent.