A marvellous work of scholarship, a rich and enthralling word-hoard, and a very significant contribution to Ulster culture - a cultural treasure.
TOM PAULIN

Surely no other living language is portrayed so colourfully and authentically as in this definitive record of contemporary Ulster-Scots in County Antrim. The Hamely Tongue is recommended to all who wish to explore the "braidest" Scots still to be found anywhere outside of the Scottish lowlands.
DR PHILIP ROBINSON
ULSTER-SCOTS ACADEMY

The Hamely Tongue provides a virtually exhaustive list of the vestigial spoken dialect of Scots in Ulster. It shows that the Scots which has survived in oral currency is a language of hearth and home, of peat-cutting and traditional farming, of the weather and parts of the body, and of attitudes to people, events and circumstances, all topics of natural, everyday conversation.
DR JOHN KIRK
THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST

The best of traditional dialectology lives on in Fenton's work. Here is a body of knowledge that might have been lost for ever but for the diligence of one scholar.
DR C I MACAFEE
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

Built on decades of painstaking collection, The Hamely Tongue is a masterpiece that captures the idiom of traditional Ulster Scots. More than any other book, it presents the richness, color, and humor of one of the liveliest and most distinctive tongues in Ulster. Every example comes to life in this book to be treasured by all.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL MONTGOMERY
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA