⌕The language of the pit
A mini dictionary records specialist mining terms and expressions used by East Midlands miners.
About the book
The language of a vanished industry
Pit Talk records the specialist language used by miners across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. Natalie Braber, Claire Ashmore and Suzy Harrison draw on interviews with miners and mining communities to preserve words and expressions once heard every day underground.
The result is more than a dictionary. Working methods, equipment, danger, humour and camaraderie all help explain how this distinctive vocabulary grew from the life of the pits — and why preserving it matters now the collieries have closed.
Inside the book
