Yorkshire Dialect

Yorkshire dialect, also known as Yorkshire English, Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, or Yorkie, is a grouping of several regionally neighbouring dialects of English spoken in Yorkshire. Yorkshire experienced drastic dialect levelling in the 20th century, eroding many traditional features, though variation and even innovations persist, at both the regional and sub-regional levels. Organisations such as the Yorkshire Dialect Society and the East Riding Dialect Society exist to promote the survival of the more traditional features.

The dialects have been represented in classic works of literature such as '' Wuthering Heights'', '' Nicholas Nickleby'' and ''The Secret Garden'', and linguists have documented variations of the dialects since the 19th century. In the mid-20th century, the Survey of English Dialects collected dozens of recordings of authentic Yorkshire dialects.

Early history and written accounts

Based on fragments of early studies on the dialect, there seem to have been few distinctions across large areas: in the early 14th century, the traditional Northumbrian dialect of Yorkshire showed few differences compared to the dialect spoken in Aberdeen, now often considered a separate Scots language. The dialect has been widely studied since the 19th century, including an early work by William Stott Banks in 1865 on the dialect of Wakefield, and another by Joseph Wright who used an early form of phonetic notation in a description of the dialect of Windhill, near Bradford. Significant works that covered all of England include Alexander John Ellis's 1899 book On Early English Pronunciation, Part V, and the English Dialect Dictionary, which was published in six volumes between 1898 and 1905.

Charles Dickens' '' Nicholas Nickleby'' (1839) and Emily Brontë's '' Wuthering Heights'' (1847) are notable 19th century works of literature which include examples of contemporary Yorkshire dialects. The following is an excerpt of Brontë's use of contemporary West Riding dialect from Haworth in '' Wuthering Heights'', with a translation to standard English below:

'''Aw wonder how yah can faishion to stand thear i' idleness un war, when all on 'ems goan out! Bud yah're a nowt, and it's no use talking—yah'll niver mend o'yer ill ways, but goa raight to t' divil, like yer mother afore ye!'''I wonder how you can dare to stand there in idleness and worse, when all of them have gone out! But you're a nobody, and it's no use talking—you'll never mend your evil ways, but go straight to the Devil, like your mother before you!

Geographic distribution

Yorkshire covers a large area, and the dialect is not the same in all areas. In fact, the dialects of the North and East Ridings are fairly different from that of the West Riding, as they display only Northumbrian characteristics rather than the mixture of Northumbrian & Mercian features found in the West Riding. The Yorkshire Dialect Society draws a border roughly at the River Wharfe between two main zones. The area southwest of the river has been influenced by Mercian, originating from the East Midlands dialects during the industrial revolution, whilst that to the northeast, like Geordie, the Cumbrian dialect and the Scots language, is descended more purely from the Northumbrian dialect. The distinction was first made by A. J. Ellis in ''On Early English Pronunciation''.Ellis also identified a third area around Craven, Ribblesdale, upper Wensleydale and Swaledale as part of his "West Northern" area (numbered Area 31), alongside almost all of Cumbria as well as north Lancashire and south Durham. In the tradition of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, this area is usually grouped with the North Riding dialect. The division was approved of by Joseph Wright, the founder of the Yorkshire Dialect Society and the author of the '' English Dialect Dictionary''. Investigations at village level by the dialect analysts Stead (1906), Sheard (1945) and Rohrer (1950) mapped a border between the two areas. A rough border between the two areas was mapped by the Swiss linguist Fritz Rohrer, having undertaken village-based research in areas indicated by previous statements by Richard Stead and J.A. Sheard, although there were "buffer areas" in which a mixed dialect was used, such as a large area between Leeds and Ripon, and also at Whitgift, near Goole.

One report explains the geographic difference in detail:

This distinction was first recognised formally at the turn of the 19th / 20th centuries, when linguists drew an isophone diagonally across the county from the northwest to the southeast, separating these two broadly distinguishable ways of speaking. It can be extended westwards through Lancashire to the estuary of the River Lune, and is sometimes called the Humber-Lune Line. Strictly speaking, the dialects spoken south and west of this isophone are Midland dialects, whereas the dialects spoken north and east of it are truly Northern. It is likely that the Midland influence came up into the region with people migrating towards the manufacturing districts of the West Riding during the Industrial Revolution.

Over time, speech has become closer to Standard English and some of the features that once distinguished one town from another have disappeared. In 1945, J. A. Sheard predicted that various influences "will probably result in the production of a standard West Riding dialect", and K. M. Petyt found in 1985 that "such a situation is at least very nearly in existence".

Authentic recordings

The Survey of English Dialects in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s recorded over 30 examples of authentic Yorkshire dialects which can be heard online via the British Library Sound Archive. Below is a selection of recordings from this archive:

* Miss Madge Dibnah (b.1890) of Welwick, East Yorkshire, "female housekeeper". According to the Library, "much of her speech remains part of the local dialect to this day".
* Cooper Peacock (b.1887) of Muker, North Yorkshire, farmer.
* Unidentified of Golcar, West Yorkshire, mill worker.
* Mrs Hesselden (b.1882) of Pateley Bridge North Yorkshire.
* Ronald Easton (b.1895) of Skelton, North Yorkshire, farmer.

Pronunciation

Some features of Yorkshire pronunciation are general features of northern English accents. Many of them are listed in the northern English accents section on the English English page.

Vowels

* Words such as ''strut, cut, blood, lunch'' usually take , although is a middle-class variant.
* Most words affected by the trap-bath split of South East England – the distinction between the sounds and – are not affected in Yorkshire. The long of southern English is widely disliked in the "bath"-type words. However, words such as ''palm, can't, spa'' are pronounced with a long vowel, usually more fronted .
* In parts of the West Riding, ''none, one, once, nothing, tongue, among(st)'' are pronounced with rather than A shibboleth for a traditional Huddersfield accent is the word ''love'' as , pronounced with the same vowel as "lot".
* Words such as ''late, face, say, game'' are pronounced with a monophthong or . However, words with in the spelling (e.g. straight, weight), as well as exclamations and interjections such as ''hey'' and ''eh'' (the tag question), are usually pronounced with a diphthong . Some words with ''ake'' at the end may be pronounced with , as in take to ''tek'', make to ''mek'' and sake to ''sek'' (but not for ''bake'' or ''cake'').
* Words with the vowel in Received Pronunciation, as in ''goat'', may have a monophthong or . In a recent trend, a fronted monophthong is common amongst young women, although this has been the norm for a long time in Hull (where it originates). It has developed only since 1990, yet it has now spread to Bradford. historically there was a four-way split whereby a diphthong (west riding) or (north and east ridings) exists in words subject to vocalisation in middle English (e.g. ''grow, glow, bow, bowt, fowk, nowt, owt'' for ''grow, glow, bow, bought, folk, nought, ought'' respectively"). The Os in some words are pronounced as , such as ''oppen'', ''brokken'', ''wokken'' for ''open, broken, woken''. Other words spelled ow were pronounced with an aw sound such as ''knaw, snaw, blaw'' for ''know, snow, blow'', from old English āw. An (west riding) or (north and east ridings) sound was found in words that were subject to lengthening of Old English in middle English such as ''coil, hoil'' in the West Riding and ''cooal, hooal'' in the North and East Ridings for ''coal, hole'' . Another was (west riding) or (north and east ridings) that originated from old English ā (e.g. West Riding ''booan, hooam, booath, looaf, mooast'' and North and East Riding ''beean, yam, baith, leeaf, maist'' for ''bone, home, both, loaf, most''). This four-way split was found throughout all of northern England and contrasted with the historic two-way split found in the south and midlands.
Due to dialect levelling, however, these sounds were merged into the modern monophthong , and (east riding) by the 1950s.
* If a close vowel precedes , a schwa may be inserted. This gives for and (less frequently) for .
* When precedes in a stressed syllable, can become . For example, ''very'' can be pronounced .
* In Hull, Middlesbrough and the east coast, the sound in ''word'', ''heard'', ''nurse'', etc. is pronounced in the same way as in ''square, dare''. This is . The set of words with , such as ''near, fear, beard,'' etc., may have a similar pronunciation but remains distinctive as .
** In other parts of Yorkshire, this sound is a short or long . This seems to have developed as an intermediate form between the older form (now very rare in these words) and the RP pronunciation .
* In Hull, Middlesbrough and much of the East Riding, the phoneme (as in ''prize'') may become a monophthong before a voiced consonant. For example, ''five'' becomes (fahv), ''prize'' becomes (). This does not occur before voiceless consonants, so "price" is .
* In the south of the west riding, Middle English /uː/ is traditionally realised as a monophthong or in the Holme Valley as a diphthong �əas in ''daan'', ''abaat'', ''naa'', ''haa'', and aa''t'' for ''down, about, now, how'' and ''out''
** The traditional pronunciation of these words is in the east riding and the eastern part of the north riding; in the western half of the north riding and northern west riding it is as in ''doon, aboot, noo, hoo, oot''.These are now far less common than the RP found throughout Yorkshire.
* Words like ''city'' and ''many'' are pronounced with a final in the Sheffield area.
* What would be a schwa on the end of a word in other accents is realised as in Hull and Middlesbrough.
* A prefix to a word is more likely not to take a reduced vowel sound in comparison to the same prefix's vowel sound in other accents. For example, ''concern'' is or rather than , and ''admit'' is rather than .
* In some areas of the Yorkshire Dales (e.g. Dent, Sedbergh), the FLEECE vowel can be so that ''me'' is and ''green'' is .

The following features are recessive or even extinct; generally, they are less common amongst younger than older speakers in modern Yorkshire:
* Words originating from old English ō (e.g. ''goose, root, cool, roof, hoof'') historically had an sound in the West Riding word-medially (''ɡooise, rooit, cooil, rooif, hooif'') as well as an sound in the North and East Ridings (''ɡeease, reeat, keeal, reeaf, yuf''). Today a more RP-like pronunciation is found in all Yorkshire accents.
* Traditionally in the West Riding, in word final environments and before ''ō'' is realised as the vowel in words such as ''book'', ''cook'', and ''look'', this also occurred in the east and north ridings, where it was realised before as an and as in word final environments.
* Traditionally words such as "swear", "there", "wear" take the diphthong , often written ''sweer, theer, weer'' in dialect writing. This sound may also be used in words originating from Old English ēa, commonly spelt ''ea'' in standard english spelling: for example, ''head'' as (''heead''), ''red'' as (''reead'') ''leaves'' as (''leeavs'').
* may take the place of , especially in the West Riding in words such as ''key, meat, speak'', with the second two often written ''meyt, speyk'' in dialect writing.
* Words such as ''door, floor, four, board'' may take on a variety of diphthongal pronunciations, . This is a consequence of an incomplete horse–hoarse merger.
* Words which once had a velar fricative in Old and Middle English or a vocalised consonant may have for (e.g. ''browt, thowt, nowt, owt, grow, gowd, bowt'' for ''brought, thought, nought, ought, grow, gold, bolt'').
* Words that end ''-ight'' join the FLEECE lexical set. Today they can still be heard in their dialectal forms. For example, ''neet'' and ''reet'' . This can also be heard in Nova Scotia, Geordie and the Lancashire dialect.

Consonants

* In some areas, an originally voiced consonant followed by a voiceless one can be pronounced as voiceless. For example, ''Bradford'' may be pronounced as if it were ''Bratford'', with (although more likely with a glottal stop, ) instead of the employed in most English accents. ''Absolute'' is often pronounced as if it were ''apsolute'', with a in place of the .
* As with most dialects of English, final sound in, for example, ''hearing'' and ''eating'' are often reduced to . However, can be heard in Sheffield.
* H-dropping is common in informal speech, especially amongst the working classes.
* Omission of final stops and fricatives , especially in function words. As in other dialects, ''with'' can be reduced to ''wi'', especially before consonants. ''Was'' is also often reduced to ''wa'' (pronounced roughly as "woh"), even when not in contracted negative form (see table below).
* A glottal stop may also be used to replace (e.g. ''like'' becomes ) at the end of a syllable.
* In the Middlesbrough area, glottal reinforcement occurs for .Joan C. Beal, ''An Introduction to Regional Englishes'', Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp. 95–99
* In some areas, an alveolar tap (a 'tapped r') is used after a labial (''pray, bright, frog''), after a dental (''three''), and intervocalically (''very, sorry, pair of shoe''s).

Some consonant changes amongst the younger generation are typical of younger speakers across England, but are not part of the traditional dialect:
* Th-fronting so that for (although Joseph Wright noted th-fronting in the Windhill area in 1892).
* T-glottalisation: a more traditional pronunciation is to realise as in certain phrases, which leads to pronunciation spellings such as ''gerroff''.
* R-labialization: Possible for .

The following are typical of the older generation:
* In Sheffield, cases of initial "th" become . This pronunciation has led to Sheffielders being given the nickname "dee dahs" (the local forms of "thee" and "thou"/"tha").
* realised as before . For example, ''clumsy'' becomes .

Rhoticity

At the time of the Survey of English Dialects, most places in Yorkshire were non-rhotic, but full rhoticity could be found in Swaledale, Lonsdale, Ribblesdale, and the rural area west of Halifax and Huddersfield. In addition, the area along the east coast of Yorkshire retained rhoticity when was in final position though not when it was in preconsonantal position (e.g. ''farmer'' ). A 1981 MA study found that rhoticity persisted in the towns of Hebden Bridge, Lumbutts, and Todmorden in Upper Calderdale.

Rhoticity seems to have been more widespread in Yorkshire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: for example, the city of Wakefield was marked as rhotic in the works of A. J. Ellis, and the recording of a prisoner of war from Wakefield in the Berliner Lautarchiv displays rhotic speech, but the speech of Wakefield nowadays is firmly non-rhotic.

Further information

These features can be found in the English Accents and Dialects collection on the British Library website. This website features samples of Yorkshire (and elsewhere in England) speech in ''wma'' format, with annotations on phonology with X-SAMPA phonetic transcriptions, lexis and grammar.

See also

Vocabulary and grammar

A list of non-standard grammatical features of Yorkshire speech is given below. In formal settings, these features are castigated and, as a result, their use is recessive. They are most common among older speakers and among the working class.

* Definite article reduction: shortening of ''the'' to a form without a vowel, often written t'. See this overview and a more detailed page on the Yorkshire Dialect website, and also . This is most likely to be a glottal stop , although traditionally it was or (in the areas that border Lancashire) .
* Some dialect words persist, although most have fallen out of use. The use of ''owt'' and ''nowt'', derived from Old English ''a wiht'' and ''ne wiht'', mean ''anything'' and ''nothing'', as well as ''summat'' to mean ''something''. They are pronounced and in North Yorkshire, but as and in most of the rest of Yorkshire. Other examples of dialect still in use include ''flayed'' (sometimes ') (scared), ''laik'' (play), ''roar'' (cry), ''aye'' (yes), ''nay'' (emphatic "no"), ''and all'' (also), ''anyroad'' (anyway) and ''afore'' (before).
* When making a comparison such as ''greater than'' or ''lesser than'', the word "nor" can be used in place of "than", e.g. ''better nor him''.
* Nouns describing units of value, weight, distance, height and sometimes volumes of liquid have no plural marker. For example, ''ten pounds'' becomes ''ten pound''; ''five miles'' becomes ''five mile''.
* The word ''us'' is often used in place of ''me'' or in the place of ''our'' (e.g. we should put us names on us property). ''Us'' is invariably pronounced with a final rather than an .
* Use of the singular second-person pronoun ''thou'' (often written ''tha'') and ''thee''. This is a T form in the T–V distinction, and is largely confined to male speakers.
* ''Were'' can be used in place of ''was'' when connected to a singular pronoun. The reverse – i.e. producing constructions such as ''we was'' and ''you was'' – is also heard in a few parts of Yorkshire (e.g. Doncaster). This is also common in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Pronouncing 'hospital' as 'hospickle' and 'little' as 'lickle' is also common in Rotherham, as is shop workers and bus drivers greeting both males and females as 'love' or 'duck'.
* ''While'' is often used in the sense of ''until'' (e.g. ''Unless we go at a fair lick, we'll not be home while seven.''). ''Stay here while it shuts'' might cause a non-local to think that they should stay there ''during'' its shutting, when the order really indicates that they should stay only ''until'' it shuts. Joseph Wright wrote in the English Dialect Dictionary that this came from a shortening of the older word ''while-ever''.
* The word ''self'' may become ''sen'', e.g. ''yourself'' becomes ''thy sen'', ''tha sen''.
* Similar to other English dialects, using the word ''them'' to mean ''those'' is common, e.g. ''This used to be a pub back i them days''.
* The word ''reight/reet'' is used to mean ''very'' or ''really'', e.g. ''If Aw'm honest, Aw'm nut reight bother'd abaat it''.
* As in many non-standard dialects, double negatives are common, e.g. ''I was never scared of nobody''.
* The relative pronoun may be ''what'' or ''as'' rather than ''that'', e.g. ''other people what I've heard'' and ''He's a man as likes his drink''. Alternatively there may be no relative pronoun, e.g. ''I've a sister lives there''.
* "Yon" to mean "that over there" is still used in some areas.
* Many words, and in particular place names, reflect Old Norse influences due to Scandinavian settlement in Yorkshire during the Old English period. Examples include the ''-thorpe'' ending in names like Middlethorpe, Linthorpe, etc.

Contracted negatives

In informal Yorkshire speech, negatives may be more contracted than in other varieties of English. These forms are shown in the table below. Although the final consonant is written as , this may be realised as , especially when followed by a consonant.

''Hadn't'' does not become reduced to . This may be to avoid confusion with ''hasn't'' or ''haven't'', which can both be realised as .

Yorkshire Dialect Society

The Yorkshire Dialect Society exists to promote and preserve the use of this extensively studied and recorded dialect. After many years of low activity, the Society gained some media attention in 2023 with their "Let's Talk Tyke" classes, teaching the traditional dialect to Yorkshire residents.

The Yorkshire Dialect Society is the oldest of England's county dialect societies; it grew out of a committee of workers formed to collect material for the ''English Dialect Dictionary''. The committee was formed in October 1894 at Joseph Wright's suggestion, and the Yorkshire Dialect Society was founded in 1897. It publishes an annual volume of ''The Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society''; the contents of this include studies of English dialects outside Yorkshire, e.g. the dialects of Northumberland, and Shakespeare's use of dialect. It also publishes an annual Summer Bulletin of dialect poetry.

In the early 1930s, the society recorded gramophone records of dialect speakers from Baildon, Cleveland, Cowling, Driffield and Sheffield. The recording from Cowling was provided by Lord Snowden of Ickornshaw.

Significant members of the society have included Joseph Wright, Walter Skeat, Harold Orton, Stanley Ellis, J. D. A. Widdowson, K. M. Petyt, Graham Shorrocks, Frank Elgee, and Clive Upton.

Although Joseph Wright was involved in the Society's foundation, the Society's annual ''Transactions'' published one of the first critiques of his work in 1977. Peter Anderson, then the editor of the ''Transactions'', argued that Wright took much of his material for his work ''English Dialect Grammar'' without sufficient citation from the work of Alexander John Ellis and that Wright did Ellis "a disservice" by criticising this same work.

Examples of traditional Yorkshire dialect

Yorkshire dialect and accent in popular culture

Wilfred Pickles, a Yorkshireman born in Halifax, was selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Regional radio service; he went on to be an occasional newsreader on the BBC Home Service during World War II. He was the first newsreader to speak in a regional accent rather than Received Pronunciation, "a deliberate attempt to make it more difficult for Nazis to impersonate BBC broadcasters", and caused some comment with his farewell catchphrase "... and to all in the North, good neet".

The director Ken Loach has set several of his films in South or West Yorkshire and has stated that he does not want actors to deviate from their natural accent. The relevant films by Loach include '' Kes'' (Barnsley), '' Days of Hope'' (first episode in south of West Yorkshire), '' The Price of Coal'' (South Yorkshire and Wakefield), '' The Gamekeeper'' (Sheffield), '' Looks and Smiles'' (Sheffield) and '' The Navigators'' (South and West Yorkshire). Loach's films were used in a French dialectological analysis on changing speech patterns in South Yorkshire. Loach said in his contribution that the speech in his recently released film ''The Navigators'' was less regionally-marked than in his early film ''Kes'' because of changing speech patterns in South Yorkshire, which the authors of the article interpreted as a move towards a more standard dialect of English.

Dialect of the northern dales featured in the series '' All Creatures Great and Small''.

A number of popular bands hail from Yorkshire and have distinctive Yorkshire accents. Singer-songwriter YUNGBLUD, originating from Doncaster, preserves a strong Yorkshire accent. Louis Tomlinson, who was a member of One Direction, is from Yorkshire and in his solo music his accent is often heard. Joe Elliott and Rick Savage, vocalist and bassist of Def Leppard; Alex Turner, vocalist of the Arctic Monkeys; Jon McClure, of Reverend and The Makers; Jon Windle, of Little Man Tate; Jarvis Cocker, vocalist of Pulp; and Joe Carnall, of Milburn and Phil Oakey of The Human League are all known for their Sheffield accents, whilst The Cribs, who are from Netherton, sing in a Wakefield accent. The Kaiser Chiefs originate in Leeds, as does the Brett Domino Trio, the musical project of comedian Rod J. Madin. Graham Fellows, in his persona as John Shuttleworth, uses his Sheffield accent, though his first public prominence was as cockney Jilted John. Toddla T, a former DJ on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, has a strong Sheffield accent and often used on air the phrase "big up thysen" (an adaptation into Yorkshire dialect of the slang term "big up yourself" which is most often used in the music and pop culture of the Jamaican diaspora). Similarly, grime crews such as Scumfam use a modern Sheffield accent, which still includes some dialect words.

The Lyke Wake Dirge, written in old North Riding Dialect, was set to music by the folk band Steeleye Span. Although the band was not from Yorkshire, they attempted Yorkshire pronunciations in words such as "light" and "night" as and .

Actor Sean Bean normally speaks with a Yorkshire accent in his acting roles, as does actor Matthew Lewis, famously known for playing Neville Longbottom in the ''Harry Potter'' films.

Wallace of Wallace and Gromit, voiced by Peter Sallis, has his accent from Holme Valley of West Yorkshire, despite the character living in nearby Lancashire. Sallis has said that creator Nick Park wanted a Lancashire accent, but Sallis could only manage to do a Yorkshire one.

The late British Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes originated from Mytholmroyd, close to the border with Lancashire, and spent much of his childhood in Mexborough, South Yorkshire. His own readings of his work were noted for his "flinty" or "granite" voice and "distinctive accent" and some said that his Yorkshire accent affected the rhythm of his poetry.

The soap opera ''Emmerdale'', formerly ''Emmerdale Farm'', was noted for use of broad Yorkshire, but the storylines involving numerous incomers have diluted the dialect until it is hardly heard.

In the ITV Edwardian/interwar period drama ''Downton Abbey'', set at a fictional country estate in North Yorkshire between Thirsk and Ripon, many of the servants and nearly all of the local villagers have Yorkshire accents. BBC One series '' Happy Valley'' and '' Last Tango in Halifax'', both from creator Sally Wainwright of Huddersfield, also heavily feature Yorkshire accents.

In the HBO television series ''Game of Thrones'', many of the characters from the North of Westeros speak with Yorkshire accents, matching the native dialect of Sean Bean, who plays Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark.

Several of the dwarfs in the Peter Jackson film adaptation of '' The Hobbit'', namely Thorin Oakenshield, Kíli and Fili, speak with Yorkshire accents.

The character of the Fat Controller in the '' Thomas and Friends'' TV series, as voiced by Michael Angelis, has a broad Yorkshire accent.

"On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at", a popular folk song, is sung in the Yorkshire dialect and accent and considered to be the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire.

Actress Jodie Whittaker keeps her native Yorkshire accent in her role as the Thirteenth Doctor in ''Doctor Who''.

The freeware action game ''Poacher'' by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw features Yorkshireman as a protagonist and majority of the in-game dialogues is done in Yorkshire dialect.

Studies have shown that accents in the West Riding (that is, mostly, modern West and South Yorkshire), and by extension local dialects, are well-liked among Britons and associated with common sense, loyalty, and reliability.

Resources on traditional Yorkshire dialect

Books showcasing the dialect

''Yorkshire Ditties'' (Series 1)
by John Hartley

''Yorkshire Ditties'' (Series 2)
by John Hartley
* ''Yorkshire Puddin by John Hartley, 1876

''Yorkshire Tales'' (Series 3)
by John Hartley

''Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673–1915) and traditional poems''
by Frederic William Moorman

''Songs of the Ridings''
by Frederic William Moorman
* ''A Yorkshire Dialect Reciter'' compiled by George H. Cowling, author of "A Yorkshire Tyke", "The Dialect of Hackness", &c. London: Folk Press Ltd, 926
* ''A Kind of Loving'' and ''Joby'' by Stan Barstow (specifically that of Dewsbury and Ossett)
* Most of the dialogue in ''GB84'' by David Peace
* '' A Kestrel for a Knave'', later turned into the film '' Kes''
* (Parts of) ''The Secret Garden'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett
* (Parts of) '' Wuthering Heights'' by Emily Brontë (very old-fashioned Haworth dialect)

Notes

References

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Further reading

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* ''All Creatures Great and Small'' by James Herriot (film and TV series)
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* ''Up and Down in the Dales'', ''In the Heart of the Dales'', ''Head Over Heels in the Dales'', by Gervase Phinn
* ''Twixt Thee and Me: an anthology of Yorkshire and Lancashire verse and prose'', ed. by Joan Pomfret. Nelson: Gerrard Publications, 1974 ISBN 090039725X
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Several nineteenth-century books are kept in specialist libraries.

External links

Works by the Yorkshire Dialect Society on the Internet Archive


Sounds Familiar?
nbsp;– Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website

English Accents and Dialects
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Yorkshire Dialect Society

Gramophone recordings of Yorkshire dialect made by the Yorkshire Dialect Society in the 1930s, advertised to the society's members in 1937


at Yorkshire Dialect website by Barry Rawling


* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070310173638/http://www.freewebs.com/englishdialects/ Dialect Poems from the English regions
Guide to Yorkshire words given to international recruits to the Doncaster West N.H.S.

A Glossary of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire
1865, full book online, copyright has expired.

Yorkshire Dialect
from the BBC's "The Story of English."

Yorkshire Sayings, Phrases and Dialect
I'm From Yorkshire
* Richard Blakeborough (1898)
Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire
With a Glossary of over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use.

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