"The Meaning of Life - A Yorkshire Dialect Rhapsody" by Ian McMillan (poetry reading)

[mahonriwilson]

Spent many an appy hour or two at lane top listening to frank white at the pheasant!!

[mahonriwilson]

a still speyk like taht nah, cummin from barnsley that knows.

[SpokenVerse]

@mahonriwilson Ahm frum Sheffied Lane Top mesel'. Good on yer, Chuck.

[dfarmbrough]

Thanks for uploading. I might just play this to some of my American friends!

[donpearson61]

For non-UK viewers, the Yorkshire dialect is regional rather than just rural and, Yorkshire being a large county, both the accent and the dialect vary from one part to another.

[jeremyshambles]

i ve heard many a good things about ghost dog, i think may just have to give it a watch, cheers from san diego

[mikepalomino]

Potentially silly question: Is this poem using English "rhyming slang" or just some rural dialect I'm not familiar with?

[SpokenVerse]

It's not rhyming slang - that's usually cockney and it rhymes - as in "china" for "mate" i.e. "china plate"....

This is the way working class people speak in Yorkshire - especially a generation or two ago

[mikepalomino]

@SpokenVerse Gotcha. Thank you for answering the question. :)

[soapmode]

Love it.

[APDurrant]

Huzzah, More Poem's in Rural Dialect's.

A pleasant listen.