Black Country Dialect

Famous quotes containing the words black, country and/or dialect:

    “Three young rats with black felt hats,
    Three young ducks with white straw flats,”
    —Unknown. Three Young Rats (l. 1–2)

    “But country folks who live beneath
    The shadow and the steeple;
    The parson and the parson’s wife,
    And mostly married people;”
    —Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)

    “The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)