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JethroUK
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Grates with me when people impersonating yarkshire slang just throw in few (( 't )))s instead of word "the"
Spent my childhood talking Yorkshire slang, they/we dont say the word "the" *at all* - it just doesn't exist in Yorkshire slang
When they/we say ( t' ), it replaces "to" (not 'the')
e.g.
"Will you wash the car?" = "Will you wash car?" (see! no 'the' and no t')
"I'm going to the shop" = "I'm going t' shop" (t' replaces 'to' not 'the' - we just dont say 'the' at all)
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Spent my childhood talking Yorkshire slang, they/we dont say the word "the" *at all* - it just doesn't exist in Yorkshire slang
When they/we say ( t' ), it replaces "to" (not 'the')
e.g.
"Will you wash the car?" = "Will you wash car?" (see! no 'the' and no t')
"I'm going to the shop" = "I'm going t' shop" (t' replaces 'to' not 'the' - we just dont say 'the' at all)
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Yarkshire? A deliberate slip of the tongue there?
I know what you're saying.
The main problem, I see, is that people try to pronounce 't'' as a word on its own, whereas it really just tags onto the word before.
e.g 'I'm going down t'shops' is pronounced 'I'm going downt shops', not 'I'm going down tuh shops'.
i grew up in the northernmost part of North Yorkshire and we seem to speak in a similar manner to what you described, however as theres a mix of teesside, county Durham and a fair bit of geordie thrown in its completely different yo what people a few miles away speak.
i think if you look at "yorkshire" as a whole there is many many different dialects, people just add the 't thing as its common in some of the cities.
p.s. i hate it being called Yorkshire, hence the use of " " in my posts, im from North Yorkshire, those that are from the other parts of "Yorkshire" might as well be from Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_article_reduction
best i can manage in writing is to say this line:
"im off tut pub to see the lads" or "ill see you int pub"
its difficult to put into writing....
see im from nowhere near Hull yet its similar in some aspects, in that article it mentions a beer called "T'owd Tup" (The Old Ram) - where im from it would be more like "T'awd Tup" or "T'aud Tup".
There are huge regional differences - I was born in Bradford and lived there for 50 years. I still lapse into speaking like Geordiesi has written and nothing like your example.
I'm off tut shops so I'd best go wait fort bus.
not really
They/We are just excluding the word 'the' *all together* - because that's what Yorkshire people do - we're actually saying
"I'm going down to shops"
Now you try saying that - the 'to' is not attached to any word - you can spell it however you like
but apostrophe normally used to replace missing letters
"I'm going down t' shops"
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It's what some Yorkshire people in some areas of Yorkshire do.
Eeeeeeeeee we used to dreeeeeam of havin a brew
best we could do was to suck on a piece of damp cloth
You and me both
Yes, spot on. In fact it can be used as a reliable way of telling the Yorkshire actors from the Lancs actors in Coronation St. Or used to be. They seem to employ a lot of native Yorkshire speakers presumably cos Southerners and Midlanders can't tell ' difference.
Yorkshire drops the entire definite article - except for odd phrases like 'Put t'wood in t'oil' ("Shut the door") and that's kind of self parody, in itself.:)
Some of our grammatical differences are survivals from Old English. ('Them' instead of 'those', 'were' for 'was).
Nope - Yorkshire man would say
"Fifteen of us livin in shoe box in middle o' road"
o' replacing 'of' but no replacements for any 'the' s
**inordinately long pause whilst I stare into the distance and sip my pint in an extremely laid back fashion**
Appen you're right lad.
I've spotted the rise of 'brew' in our dialect but I think it's got to Yorkshire from Lancs, as the 'proper' Yorkshire word for making tea when i worra lass, was 'mash'.
Is't tha mashing tea? = Are you brewing tea.
I avoid 'brew' because it sounds foreign to me, in my dialect. That's only crept in recently. I was brought up by a Loiner (with a posh 'Harrogate' Yorkshire accent), and an East/West Riding borders farmer's lass, so I suspect my dialect is a bit of a mash, too - West and East Riding. Upper middle class and yeoman farming class.
Spot the Southerner.:D
Both tend to use a gollotal stop in the dialect rather than a sharp `t'.
That Michael McKintyre sketch "'t Lion, 't Witch and 't Wardrobe" does really grate. There is no-one who would say that.
I hate him with a passion. Sweaty, disgusting creature.