Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century -- 2. The dialect of the Isles of Scilly: Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety -- 3. A new dialect for a new village: Evidence for koinéization in East Kent -- 4. The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition -- 5. I'll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon't get no tea yit no coffee more oon't I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation -- 6. Emphatic "yes" and "no" in Eastern English: jearse and dow -- 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian -- 8. 'I don't think I have an accent': Exploring varieties of southern English at the British Library -- 9. The historical geographical distribution of periphrastic do in southern dialects -- Index