Yorkshire Dialect

From the BBC's "The Story of English."

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[yasashii89]

It's a shame how dialects in England are dying out so fast. So many northerners seem to be ashamed of where they come from and try to put on a southern accent.

[Guitcad1]

@yasashii89 And in the US it the exact opposite.

[yasashii89]

@Guitcad1 I can't really agree with you on that one, the US is also seeing accents dying out, maybe not at the same rate, but its happening everywhere. In England rhotic accents are dying out and in the US none-rhotic accents are dying out.

[Guitcad1]

@yasashii89 I meant that in the US it is the southerners who try to lose their accent because of the connotations it carries. But I do see acents here becoming more generic. I live in Austin, TX which is a remarkably cosmopolitan city compared to the rest of Texas. I notice when I hear someone with a "normal" Texas accent. Most people in Austin, I couldn't tell you if they were born here, Chicago, San Francisco. I can usually spot New York or Boston accents, but not much else.

[doom032]

Good old Viking era, when England wasn't Frenchified yet.

[blackmichael75]

He's probably dead by now, this geezer

[LynnMarieParkin]

@yasashii89 One thing I remember my friend is that when we whre kids if we spoke in dialect, even growing up in Yorkshire we would be given a good hiding for not talking proper Queens English! So so many of us eventually lost our accents as a result. Thankfully I still have a lot of older Yorkshire Speaking folks in the family, so its easy to slip into dialect.

[ArnoldLeighsanigger]

@SouthernNorthener2 Same but even I had to strain and I'm a tyke!

[LynnMarieParkin]

PS: No matter where we come from! We should be proud of our Herritage, accents and dialect! Without those Dialects the world would be boring

[LynnMarieParkin]

Still love the old Yorkshire Accesnt I was actually born in the Mining Villages of South Yorkshire, but brought up in the Dales So used to hearing it... Nothing to beat the real Yorkshire Dialect

[PhilJamesTaylor]

gloriously educational for somebody from yorkshire. thank you!

[Ulrna]

@panachronic1 That's because Scotland and the Northern parts of England were subject to Northern (especially Norwegian) colonization during the Viking age.

The Shetland Islands and Orkney was an important trading port for Norwegian fish trade until it was given back around 1266 by a series of treaties.

Britain and Scandinavia have always enjoyed a close relationship because of the north sea. :)