Recording of the week: Dialect in children’s play

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This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. One of the fascinating aspects of children’s imaginative play, as celebrated on the Library’s Playtimes website, is how games and rhymes evolve and adapt to reflect time and place. Two British Library recordings of thumb war, for instance,…

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