It means Yorkshire’s glorious ­dialect is under threat – and at this rate we could say tarra to it within 45 years, as slang and pronunciation from the South become more common. But now retired German ...

These words, spoken by a ‘village dame’ entering a doctor’s waiting room, were penned in the latter half of the 19th century by author and collector of Yorkshire folklore Richard Blakeborough, who ...

Yorkshire dialect expert Dr Barrie Rhodes tells us about the fate of dialects and why we speak like we do. He also recites a poem for us. Grace Shaw talks to Dr Barrie M Rhodes, published linguist and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yorkshire dialect, with it's unique words, phrases and pronunciations has roots in Old Norse, Old English - and even a little ...

THE Gazette & Herald went in search of the origins of Yorkshire dialect. With the help of the Yorkshire Dialect Society's Dr Barrie Rhodes, reporter JAMES KILNER found remarkable similarities between ...

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More than 4,000 words have been collated in a newly published dictionary of Yorkshire dialect terms. From abbeystead, external to yower, external - a term for a sheep's udder - it features words that ...

Think you know your 'Ey up' from you 'Nah then'? Yorkshire is famous not just for it's rolling hills, historic towns and strong cups of brew - it is also loved for it's distinctive dialect which has ...

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