Yorkshire dialect

[classic33]

'Af past ten and ee anna cum aready
Wunna cum afor elem now sure to.

 

[ColinJ]

Apparently, instructions on how to behave at traffic lights caused problems...

"Wait while light is red, then go"!




(Yorkshire: 'while' = 'until'!)

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Choc ice one is so true. We always called sweets goodies as kids.

 

[DRM]

'Spice' is used around Cas[tleford]/Pontefract but not Leeds.

I wouldn’t be too sure on that, spogs and spice are available in Leeds, even it does have a Harvey Nicks.

 

[DRM]

I am not too sure about that.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5R1o2DgJw

Barnsley lad

 

[Milzy]

'Spice' is used around Cas[tleford]/Pontefract but not Leeds.

Spice is something else now 😄

 

[MarkF]

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.

 

[DRM]

there’s a lot of variation in words used, for example, West/South Yorkshire your packed lunch for work is your snap, in North Yorkshire right through to Tyneside the same thing is your bait, an alleyway in West Yorkshire is a ginnell, in Hull it’s a 10 foot, one phrase I can remember from being a child is being told to stop lakeing abaht by’t kerb and get on’t coarser, tha’ll tummel off and brek thee leg.

 

[Sterlo]

there’s a lot of variation in words used, for example, West/South Yorkshire your packed lunch for work is your snap, in North Yorkshire right through to Tyneside the same thing is your bait, an alleyway in West Yorkshire is a ginnell, in Hull it’s a 10 foot, one phrase I can remember from being a child is being told to stop lakeing abaht by’t kerb and get on’t coarser, tha’ll tummel off and brek thee leg.

It's all one word, it's a tenfoot in 'Ull, we allus went larkin in tenfoot, gerring a croggie off your mate.

 

[DRM]

My Grandparents were frum Alifax & it were allis Spice there!

View: https://youtu.be/zPCyR3-if6o

Enjoy

 

[classic33]

Ginnel is more the west West Riding than the east West Riding.

But take into account there's words in use in one part of the Riding, be it North, East or West, that'll not be be used in another part of the sane Riding.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

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".

 

[classic33]

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".

It's as much about the loss of regional accents, words and sayings, for me.

Why should we all speak the same, given we're from different parts of a larger country. We're in danger of losing a lot more if we lose the regional variations.

 

[Archie_tect]

The Yorkshire dialect is increasingly limited to the older residents. Thanks to the homogenisation of language via the digital age, I don't hear it much amongst the 20-30 somethings.

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

 

[Mike Ayling]

Ur accent strengthens when surrounded by fellow Yorkshire folk.

The same applies to us who are of Sarf Efrican origin!

Mike