BRIGG COULD HELP KEEP LINCOLNSHIRE DIALECT ALIVE

Lincolnshire Day 2016 will be celebrated on Saturday, October 1, Brigg Blog has just noticed. And that set us thinking: What will it mean in our town?
This seems an ideal opportunity to laud local products like Lincolnshire sausages and haslet, plum bread and Tom Wood's ales.
How about some Lincolnshire dialect readings? Or perhaps an introduction to Lincolnshire dialect for those who've never heard it spoken.
People work hard to keep the Cornish and Welsh languages alive. But we seem to be in danger of losing Lincolnshire dialect.
View glossary of typical words. How many do you recognise?
Playing cricket for Brigg Town against South Kelsey many years ago, we heard one of the village batsmen, who was struggling to score runs, described as being "Nowt but a brogger" which appears to be an uncomplimentary term about the holder of an office or post. It has an alternative meaning related to farming.
Lincolnshire Day, we suggest, applies to the entire shire, from Stamford up to the Humber, and not just the area still administered by Lincolnshire County Council and bordering Brigg at the ends of Bigby High Road and Westrum Lane.
There are many who are proud to be Lincolnshire Yellow Bellies from what was (or is?) the second largest county in terms of land area.
We are flagging up Lincolnshire Day in good time in the hope that someone might rise to the challenge.