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Voices - get involved

Share your thoughts on the way we talk in the Midlands. The BBC aims to collect over 1000 voices from across the British Isles and you can help by doing the online survey.

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Do you fancy a larrap? Enjoy a chin wag? Prefer a good natter or just want to chew the fat?

Voices is the largest ever celebration of the way the British Isles speaks today - from Aberdeen to Truro, there is a rich range of words to describe the simplest things. We want you to share your thoughts on the way you talk in the Midlands.

The online survey will ask you what naming words you use. For example, what do you call your mum? What words do you use for rain? Alleyway? Or even... the toilet?! The BBC material will add to update a survey of English dialects at the University of Leeds and provide an online interactive dialect map of the British Isles.

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