Yorkshire dialect

[Deleted member 26715]

Oh gosh, Yorkshire people thinking they're unique and special again. Unique in having some form of dialect, and special in believing their particular county is the best one.
It's nice, it really is. Unique and special, it isn't really. Sorry Yorkshire. Every county in the land has nice things, nice scenery somewhere, some local foibles and oddities. You don't live in "God's country".

That reads like a post from a jealous person

 

[Venod]

I don't hear "Yorkshire" unless I go south of Leeds (rare), Castleford, Wakefield , Barnsley etc.

I think Leeds has its own distinctive dialect, men calling you love regardless of gender is used throughout West Yorkshire, but I think its used far more in Leeds.

an alleyway in West Yorkshire is a ginnell

Snicket was/is widely used also.

 

[pawl]

I may have posted this before but the above phrase reminded me of work, we inhereted a few southerners from Littlebrook workshop that shut down, so some transfered to us at Ferrybridge.

One of them was working on a large gearbox that drives the coalmill in a power station, it had various pockets in the casting one of which was filled with oil that shouldn't have been there.

The foreman said to him " get oil owt t oil " the look on the southern guys face was priceless, he had no idea what he meant.


As a midlander I’ll have ago


I say old chap would you mind awfully removing the oil out of the hole you dick head😫😖😒

 

[Moodyman]

You've not been to Wakefield or Normanton recently then?

Maybe that's where I'm going wrong.

Am 'ere in Bratfurd.

 

[Hover Fly]

41. Wen tha‘s prowd tha thee didn pay any atenshun in Skool.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I don't hear "Yorkshire" unless I go south of Leeds (rare), Castleford, Wakefield , Barnsley etc. I recall meeting some lads from Barnsley in Corfu when I was teenager, it was like they were from another planet, I had no idea what they were on about. Fortunately, my kids have a neutral accent my mothers elocution investment paid off at last! I do like Yorkshire/Pakistani, it's like Geoffrey Boycott under water wearing a balaclava.

I have family in Wakefield and Barnsley. Really strong accents that it takes me a time to get used to.

 

[Drago]

I read and recognised all these without difficulty, can you.

WHEN YOU KNOW UR YORKSHIRE:

1. To you, ‘chuffed’ is an emotion.
2. You say ‘eh’ whenever you dunt understand summat.
3. Ome med Yorkshire puds are onny option.
4. Yorkshire Tea is onny tea that exists.
5. Word ‘the’ int even a thing.
6. Ur accent strengthens when surrounded by fellow Yorkshire folk.
7. Red roses simply dunt exist.
8. Ur referred to as ‘r lass’ or ‘r lad’.
9. You’ve fallen victim to bread cake / tea cake argument.
10. You’ve also fallen victim to a scone vs scon pronunciation face-off.
11. Ur in your bikini or shorts at owt above 15 degrees.
12. A Sunday roast int just tradition, it’s LAW.
13. Tha knew what a ‘mardy bum’ was before Arctic Monkeys.
14. "M'off t'shop" meks perfect sense.
15. Lunch is dinner n dinner is tea.
16. Ur able to drop c-bomb in everyday conversation.
17. You understand the phrase ‘tin tin tin’.
18. Tha luv a bargain.
19. You like what you seh n seh what you bloody well like.
20. You bring up Yorkshire as often as you possibly can.
21. If you ask for Spice you know tha'll get sweets not nutmeg or paprika.
22. When someone asks "shoot bed" you know ur in early.
23. Thas bought meat from meat van at car boot.
24. U actually talk to folk on public transport n in street.
25. U've sed "Ow Much!"
26. Been to Pie Shop after a night art.
27. Tha'nos Kes n Billy.
28. "It'll b'reyt" can be answer to any problem.
29. Also a brew can solve owt.
30. You know where there's muck, there's brass.
31. Nowt starts wi letter "H".
32. Ur used t'sporting success but ard times in football.
33. U know someone who used t'werk darn pit.
34. That 'ouse int middle of M62 is a sign ur cumin 'ome or goin t'dark side.
35. Name "Thatcher" brings instant anger.
36. When ur sick someone will allus tell u summat is goin raand
37. Ur mam wud try n palm u off wi a choc ice when Icecream van cum raand.
38. Thas a pro at Kerby.
39. Ad a few clips raand lug oyle as a young un.
40. Gip is a word.

41. When you show support for a military invasion of Lancashire.
42. When you are sexually attracted to whippets.
43. When you think The Last of The Summer Wine is a documentary.
44. When you have pyjamas that match your cloth cap.
45. Instead of owning a car you instead ride downhill in an old bathtub.
46. You like scotch eggs.
47. You think that Bernard Manning chap is jolly funny.
48. As a child you were made to push a bicycle laden with hovis up a steep hill.
49. All life is in monochrome.
50. Rickets is still rife in your family.

 

[craigwend]

41. When you show support for a military invasion of Lancashire.
42. When you are sexually attracted to whippets.
43. When you think The Last of The Summer Wine is a documentary.
44. When you have pyjamas that match your cloth cap.
45. Instead of owning a car you instead ride downhill in an old bathtub.
46. You like scotch eggs.
47. You think that Bernard Manning chap is jolly funny.
48. As a child you were made to push a bicycle laden with hovis up a steep hill.
49. All life is in monochrome.
50. Rickets is still rife in your family.

47... He was from that Lancashire so incorrect

 

[classic33]

41. When you show support for a military invasion of Lancashire.
42. When you are sexually attracted to whippets.
43. When you think The Last of The Summer Wine is a documentary.
44. When you have pyjamas that match your cloth cap.
45. Instead of owning a car you instead ride downhill in an old bathtub.
46. You like scotch eggs.
47. You think that Bernard Manning chap is jolly funny.
48. As a child you were made to push a bicycle laden with hovis up a steep hill.
49. All life is in monochrome.
50. Rickets is still rife in your family.

43: Fred Dibnah, Lancashire.
48: Not Haworth as many folk think.
Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

 

[Drago]

South & West North Riding.

T'ain't music hall nonsense, but a dialect that is slowly being killed off. Generally by folk who seem to want to put where they're from behind them. Almost as though they're ashamed o'where they came from.

Check the works of Arnold Kellett, in trying to preserve the various regional dialects within the County.

I've lived my life split fairly evenly between the northern isles and england, and was sent to prep school for good measure so I can slip seamlessly and without thought between 3 different accents. I just admit that I tend to use the prep school BBC English accent, but occasionally I drop into my home accent and Shetlandic dialect just to remind Glaswegians that they are soft southerners too.

 

[Drago]

48: Not Haworth as many folk think.
Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Little known fact that Dorset used to be a province of Yorkshire.

 

[Sterlo]

Little known fact that Dorset used to be a province of Yorkshire.

Was that Southern South Yorkshire?

 

[classic33]

Was that Southern South Yorkshire?

That'd be the Southern South West Riding!

 

[Drago]

Was that Southern South Yorkshire?

Southern deepest south lower Yorkshire.

 

[Milzy]

Also in Yorkshire Alpha males can call other Alpha males 'love' or 'flower' and it's acceptable.