The whippets and Flat caps thing always bugs me, I have lived in Yorkshire my whole life and have never seen anyone with a Whippet, flat cap or ferrets.
The whippets and Flat caps thing always bugs me, I have lived in Yorkshire my whole life and have never seen anyone with a Whippet, flat cap or ferrets.
I wear a flat at sometimes but then I'll put owt on me ead.
At least you don't get people 'impersonating' you by running around in a ginger wig shouting 'och aye the nuuuuuu'.
I think as a rule of thumb, people should refrain from doing UK regional accents if they don't come from that area. For the people who do, it invariably sounds awful.
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
Yeah, but you have a perceptible glottal stop between "wash" and "car" to indicate the missing article. The problem is that there is no real way of writing a glottal stop, so people resort to the misleading t'.
But dropping 'the' entirely means that Yorkshire people are shortening "I'm going down to shops." which makes them sound a bit fick...:p
Nah,. "I'm going down ' shops". I wouldn't bother with the 'to', either, dunno about my fellow tykes. It's a big county and we have some different dialects across it.:)
depends where in yorkshire you go tbh, i grew up 4 or 5 miles from Barnsley and everyone there talks like "rayt cocker, am just off darnt road to chippie, will bi back for aif past."
I never really thought about how i spoke until i read this thread but i have now realised i dont really use ''the '' when i speak either.
I just tend to say im off down shop or whatever.
Why say words and waste your breath if you dont need to.
There is no definite article in Yorkshire dialect, or rarely.
So in Yorkshire, that's "I'm going down ' shops". "The" is dropped entirely, not ellided.
But there's a glottal stop for "the", isn't there?
I'm a Yorkshirewoman. Before I became an honorary Brummie (MUCH better accent, I don't care if everyone else disagrees ), I never made no sound at all for "the" - there was always the glottal.
Yeah, but you have a perceptible glottal stop between "wash" and "car" to indicate the missing article. The problem is that there is no real way of writing a glottal stop, so people resort to the misleading t'.
TRUE! Maybe some people can't hear the glottal, I dunno. I've never heard any Yorkshire person fail to make SOME sound where a "the" should be.
depends where in yorkshire you go tbh, i grew up 4 or 5 miles from Barnsley and everyone there talks like "rayt cocker, am just off darnt road to chippie, will bi back for aif past."
Also true! I grew up in Barnsley. It'd be "...to <glottal stop> chippie..." though.
I never really thought about how i spoke until i read this thread but i have now realised i dont really use ''the '' when i speak either.
I just tend to say im off down shop or whatever.
Why say words and waste your breath if you dont need to.
There's no noise from the back of your throat before the word "shop", if you think about it?
But there's a glottal stop for "the", isn't there?
I'm a Yorkshirewoman. Before I became an honorary Brummie (MUCH better accent, I don't care if everyone else disagrees ), I never made no sound at all for "the" - there was always the glottal.
TRUE! Maybe some people can't hear the glottal, I dunno. I've never heard any Yorkshire person fail to make SOME sound where a "the" should be.
Also true! I grew up in Barnsley. It'd be "...to <glottal stop> chippie..." though.
I heard people in Barnsley say "I'm gunna <glottal stop> shop". I spent like 16 years growing up there.
Haven't heard laking in years!
There's no noise from the back of your throat before the word "shop", if you think about it?
Yes, there is a glottal stop but other people had already made that point so, in typical laconic Yorkshire fashion, I din't bother.:D
Ah I hear laikin, but only from fowk my age or older. The kids don't say it round here. I feel sad that our dialect will die out with this generation, I think.
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I wear a flat at sometimes but then I'll put owt on me ead.
Ah but you did Rab C Nesbitt yourselves.;)
I think as a rule of thumb, people should refrain from doing UK regional accents if they don't come from that area. For the people who do, it invariably sounds awful.
Can t' replace to and the?
I get really plastered
Go back home and beat up t'wife
I'm a northern b@stard
Wrong, actually!
There is no definite article in Yorkshire dialect, or rarely.
So in Yorkshire, that's "I'm going down ' shops". "The" is dropped entirely, not ellided.
Ah, fowk that sez that to 'be funny' are usually Southerners.
But dropping 'the' entirely means that Yorkshire people are shortening "I'm going down to shops." which makes them sound a bit fick...
Yeah, but you have a perceptible glottal stop between "wash" and "car" to indicate the missing article. The problem is that there is no real way of writing a glottal stop, so people resort to the misleading t'.
Nah,. "I'm going down ' shops". I wouldn't bother with the 'to', either, dunno about my fellow tykes. It's a big county and we have some different dialects across it.:)
Don't worry, Lancastrians and Cheshire-ites were irritated by Stuart Hall (and Eddie Waring) Not merely by their "It's a Knock Out" commentaries.
It's neether mickling nor muckling.
Is "meithering" a northern word?
Well being from Barnsley I usually get away with "I'm gunna shop" lol
I just tend to say im off down shop or whatever.
Why say words and waste your breath if you dont need to.
But there's a glottal stop for "the", isn't there?
I'm a Yorkshirewoman. Before I became an honorary Brummie (MUCH better accent, I don't care if everyone else disagrees
TRUE! Maybe some people can't hear the glottal, I dunno. I've never heard any Yorkshire person fail to make SOME sound where a "the" should be.
Also true! I grew up in Barnsley. It'd be "...to <glottal stop> chippie..." though.
I heard people in Barnsley say "I'm gunna <glottal stop> shop". I spent like 16 years growing up there.
Haven't heard laking in years!
There's no noise from the back of your throat before the word "shop", if you think about it?
Yes, there is a glottal stop but other people had already made that point so, in typical laconic Yorkshire fashion, I din't bother.:D
Ah I hear laikin, but only from fowk my age or older. The kids don't say it round here. I feel sad that our dialect will die out with this generation, I think.