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Lancashire Day Poem: Balls of Cotton

Balls of cotton.Sheep on drugs. Floating in the sky above.Black hands picked them in the fields.White hands wove them in the mills.Balls of cotton.Sheep on drugs. Floating in the sky above....
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Keyboard Warrior

A quick fire poem about the path to peace tapped out early one Friday morning. I hope you like it. 
Bang at paper
not with gun
Bang at paper 
fight for love

Stab at keyboard 
not with knife 
Stab at keyboard 
force for life 

wall is stronger than the spear 
quill is lighter...
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The Story Of Communication

For the next few weeks I am going to collect here on this blog my main touchstones for the story of communication. From survival sounds, pleasure and pain cries, hand gestures, body language, singing Neanderthals, the classical civilisations, religion, old, middle and modern English, English, our planet’s 7000 or so...
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Talk Dialect White Paper

Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations,...
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