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As Radio 3 visits Hull for Uproot, Ian McMillan discusses vowels and goat-fronting.

As Radio 3 visits Hull for its Uproot festival, Ian McMillan celebrates vowels and explores goat-fronting, an increasingly popular way to pronounce 'go' and 'no' in the city.

The Verb celebrates vowels, in particular 'O' and the exclamation 'Oh!'. As Radio 3 visits Hull for its Uproot festival, Ian delves into the phenomenon of 'goat-fronting', an increasingly popular way to pronounce 'go' and 'no' in the city. 

Joanna Neary
Comedian Joanna Neary brings the sighs, and the 'ohs' of her beloved character, Celia Jesson (otherwise know as 'repressed housewife') to The Verb studio, with a piece entitled 'Oh !'. 

Daljit Nagra
The poet Daljit Nagra reads from his new collection 'British Museum'. For Daljit, there is a big contrast between the self-reserved English poetic 'o', and the Indian 'O', which is an exclamation from the heart.

Professor Clive Upton
As part of Radio 3's Uproot festival we celebrate Hull with an exploration of one of the most distinctive aspects of the East Yorkshire accent, called 'goat-fronting' (it's when the vowel in words such as goat is articulated with the main body of the tongue pushed further forward in the mouth than is the case with a more traditional Yorkshire pronunciation). The linguist Clive Upton delves into the theories behind Hull's vowel sounds and also brings his expertise on 'Received Pronunciation' to the Verb studio . 

Vicky Foster
Hull based poet Vicky Foster is so proud of her hometown that she's written the poetic love-letter 'Why I Love Where I live'. Vicky's poem also celebrates Hull's distinctive vowels. 

Adriana Jacobs
The vowel is not represented in everyday Hebrew - though small diacritical marks are usually used to indicate vowels in Hebrew poetry. So why is it political statement to remove these marks, and what happens when a poet only uses these marks, and avoids using consonants altogether? Adriana Jacobs reads us a poem that is all vowel...

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