About the Author

Bill Griffiths is the author of "Northern Sinfonia" and "Stotty 'n' Spice Cake."

Reviews

"A fascinating trip down memory lane for this former pit yakker." --"Northumberland Gazette" "An exceptionally rich combination of borrowings from Old Norse, Dutch and a score of other languages, with inventive usages dreamed up by the miners themselves." --"The Guardian" "The welcome arrival of the book Pitmatic captures a unique dialect of Northern coal mining." --Bill Lancaster, historian and director, the Centre for Northern Studies "This valuable text adds to our knowledge of linguistic form and meaning and it seems likely that it will direct and inform further lines of historical and cultural enquiry." --"Labour History Review"