Yorkshire dialect

[Deleted member 26715]

I can't remember ever hearing or using Thassen, but the construct would probably be valid and understood.

Surely it's Thatten as in thissen or thatten

 

[mcshroom]

Surely it's Thatten as in thissen or thatten

Thissun and Thattun as in 'this one' and 'that one'?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Surely it's Thatten as in thissen or thatten

I think we're talking about sen meaning self. I've mostly heard the thissen version in Sheffield.

 

[stephec]

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".

Of course Yorkshire is superior to everywhere else, why would they keep going on about it if it wasn't true? 🤣

 

[stephec]

My cousins in Lancashire speak with a strong rhotic Lancastrian accent. My father claimed he could tell the difference between Preston & Blackburn speech. Both parents, moving to the SE, took great effort to lose their accents, it being what you did to get on in those days. Here in the SW, younger urban folk tend to speak a kind of Devon Estuary.

I have a mate from Luton, and I got to know him not long after he moved up here.

One day he said to me, 'back home you can go thirty miles and people sound the same, but up here you can go five miles down the road and they sound different.' 😊

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Of course Yorkshire is superior to everywhere else, why would they keep going on about it if it wasn't true? 🤣

I'm told they'll stop when Manchester gets over itself...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I think we're talking about sen meaning self. I've mostly heard the thissen version in Sheffield.

To me, thissen/thatten means an item do you want this one, or do you want that one?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

To me, thissen/thatten means an item do you want this one, or do you want that one?

In our rather twisted way of representing phonetics without using a phonetic alphabet, that would likely come out as this 'un or that 'un. The e in thissen is more like the e in egg.

 

[mcshroom]

To me, thissen/thatten means an item do you want this one, or do you want that one?

To me it depends on where you are putting the emphasis. THISSen with the emphasis on the this bit to me is 'this one', while thiSSEN with the emphasis on the sen bit is 'yourself'. It could be a specifically South Yorkshire (or southern West Riding for the pedants ) thing, as that's where I grew up.

 

[stephec]

I'm told they'll stop when Manchester gets over itself...

I'm from Salford originally so you're bang on there. 😊

 

[ColinJ]

I'm told they'll stop when Manchester gets over itself...

I'm from Salford originally so you're bang on there. 😊

I went to university there. I had a flat in Chapel St, just on the Salford side of 'the border' but to my Midlands way of thinking it was bang in the centre of Manchester. I went along to Salford Town Hall to claim Housing Benefit and made the mistake of referring to Salford as Manchester, which really did NOT go down well!

 

[stephec]

I went to university there. I had a flat in Chapel St, just on the Salford side of 'the border' but to my Midlands way of thinking it was bang in the centre of Manchester. I went along to Salford Town Hall to claim Housing Benefit and made the mistake of referring to Salford as Manchester, which really did NOT go down well!

Serves you right. 🤣

It could've been worse though, if you'd gone upto someone on Salford precinct and told them that they were a manc then you"d have been in trouble.

 

[DRM]

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

Or for the real deal, Barnsley and Rotherham !

 

[Accy cyclist]

A caller on the local radio phone in the other day asked why Channel Five has 'so many documentaries about Yorkshire'. Get on Cycling Chat,thought i. I bet CC has more threads about Yorkshire, than C5 has documentaries about the fecking place!!

 

[classic33]

A caller on the local radio phone in the other day asked why Channel Five has 'so many documentaries about Yorkshire'. Get on Cycling Chat,thought i. I bet CC has more threads about Yorkshire, than C5 has documentaries about the fecking place!!

You've another show coming up soon. A spin-off from Gentleman Jack, which will focus on the Brontes and their involvement with Anne Lister of Shibden Hall.