Product details

• Original Concept: Jantze Holmes

• Design & Production: Barrie Tullett

• Format: 36pp pamphlet stitched

• Size: 130 x 100 mm

• Publisher: The Caseroom Press

• Publication Date: Spring 2022

• Open edition

Book Description

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that  English is a very boring language.

 

We have almost no accents above or below our letterforms. No written clues to give character to our speech. The most ambitious we get is the difference between a greasy spoon cafe (caff) and a more upmarket café (cafae).

 

Yet there are unmarked variations in the way that the length of vowels change with dialect. A Southerners bath (barth), is so very different from a Northerners bath (baf), as are our parths and pafs, aunts and ants, do you Parss the Pasta, or Pass the Parsta?