Just as Joseph Wright was spurred on by the industrial Revolution 125 years ago, so too are we – Talk Dialect – by the advent of the Internet and AI today.

The linguistic landscape of the UK is a beautiful, if somewhat patchwork, tapestry of regional quirks, and finally, Talk Dialect is giving us all the one centralised digital home it deserves.

What we are doing:

1. Started the first English digital dialect community on 23rd April 2026.
2. Aiming to collect 1 million unique dialect words.
3. Making unique people-powered living dictionaries.
4. Gathering data to plot never before seen live word maps.
5. Begun recruiting a team of crack and elite Dialect Detectives to help speed up reaching our 1M word goal.

Hosted at talkdialect.co.uk, we are not just a list of words in alphabetical order, we are providing the living layer between traditional dictionaries, academics and linguists to help us all reach, record and revitalise all our favourite most-loved words before they are lost forever.

Shush 🤫 Top Secret: The First Ever Dialect Detective Secret Mission Is #TD001 Codeword Buckinghamshire 🕵️

Dialect Poor Buckinghamshire Is Bottom Of The County Leaderboard

For the next few weeks we are helping the historic county of Buckinghamshire bolster and grow its dialect body of words from 105.

Here are 3 things you can do to help today:

1. Sign up as a Dialect Detective 🕵️
2. Add your dialect words on the super quick 5 second form on our home page.
3. Have conversations with your parents, grandparents and neighbours and fill in the dialect data gathering worksheet.

Our dog-eyed moderators will be keeping a check on how many new words come through for this county in the next few weeks and rewarding the best detective something rather special.

We are also looking for a Keeper of the Buckinghamshire Dialect Dictionary. Please send interested people via our contact form our way email hellotalkdialect@gmail.com or telephone 07905 456704

We gradely look forward to work with you to collect more dialect than ever before in history.

Let’s build something unique for the language landscape of the future.

Thanking you kindly, The Talk Dialect Team 🗣️💚