Peter Trudgill is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. His interest in dialects extends throughout the English-speaking world and he is author of Accent, Dialect and the School, Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, and many other books on dialectology. He is editor of the Blackwell series 'Language in Society'.

• List of Maps. Preface to the Second Edition.Acknowledgements.1. Language Variety in England.2. The Pronunciation of Traditional Dialects.3. The Pronunciation of Modern Dialects.4. The Grammar of English Dialects.5. Dialect Words.Notes.Sources and Further Reading.Index.