It means Yorkshire’s glorious dialect is under threat – and at this rate we could say tarra to it within 45 years, as slang and pronunciation from the South become more common. But now retired German ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yorkshire dialect, with it's unique words, phrases and pronunciations has roots in Old Norse, Old English - and even a little ...
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These words, spoken by a ‘village dame’ entering a doctor’s waiting room, were penned in the latter half of the 19th century by author and collector of Yorkshire folklore Richard Blakeborough, who ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across Yorkshire, we have some weird and wonderful words we use in everyday conversation, but some bits of Yorkshire dialect are a ...
Yorkshire Dialect Society wants apology from council for anti-litter poster that should have read ‘Gerrit in t’bin’ It wasn’t just a misplaced apostrophe, it was a misplaced Yorkshire apostrophe that ...
I thoroughly enjoyed Charlotte Ambrose’s article about York (Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-What? My surprising things about life in York, March 26). As a newcomer to our great city and as a budding writer, she is ...
More than 4,000 words have been collated in a newly published dictionary of Yorkshire dialect terms. From abbeystead, external to yower, external - a term for a sheep's udder - it features words that ...
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