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    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...
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    general culture of Yorkshire, including its history and dialect. Its name is used by several institutions, for example the Royal Yorkshire Regiment of the...
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  • county in England. Yorkshire may also refer to: Yorkshire dialect East Riding of Yorkshire, a traditional division of the British county and the name...
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  • substantial amount of dialect, specifically Yorkshire dialect. Set in Haworth, the servant Joseph speaks in the traditional dialect of the area, which many...
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  • "Reviews: A Grammar of the Dialect of the Bolton Area, Part 1, Introduction and Phonology". Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. XIX (XCVIII): 53–55...
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  • type lich. "Lyke-wake" could also be from the Norse influence on the Yorkshire dialect: the contemporary Norwegian and Swedish words for "wake" are still...
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    the linguistic drift of Yorkshire dialect is causing tha to fall into disuse; however, a measure of local pride in the dialect may be counteracting this...
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    existed in the area. Well-known accents and dialects in the United Kingdom are Cockney, Welsh English, Yorkshire, Scouse and Scottish English; in modern Britain...
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    dialect", The Times, 1 November 1962 "Dialect survey needs cash", The Times, 17 September 1969 "Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire - Survey of English Dialects...
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    On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (category Music in Yorkshire)
    is a folk song from Yorkshire, England. It is sung in the Yorkshire dialect, and is considered the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire. It is sung to the hymn...
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  • Dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak')...
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  • Despite the decline of many traditional and distinctive features of the Yorkshire dialect, its accent is widely perceived by fellow British English speakers...
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  • definite article the in Northern dialects of England English, for example in Yorkshire dialect. DAR is often represented by dialect spelling with an apostrophe:...
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    Scandinavian York (category History of Yorkshire)
    time, was the basis of the distinct modern Yorkshire dialect. An example, in literature, of the Yorkshire dialect can be found in Emily Brontë's Wuthering...
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    Cambridgeshire), and south of another separating it from Northern English dialects (e.g. Yorkshire). This includes the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire...
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    Ian McMillan (poet) (category People from Darfield, South Yorkshire)
    was a compilation of words that are used in the Yorkshire dialect as well as a few pieces of Yorkshire humour and illustrations. In 2019 the book received...
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    Wuthering Heights (category Novels set in Yorkshire)
    The Yorkshire dialect that Joseph speaks was the subject of a 1970 book by the linguist K.M. Petyt, who argued that Emily Brontë recorded the dialect of...
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  • investigated the speech of West Yorkshire in his early work. His first publication, Emily Brontë and the Haworth Dialect, compared the speech of the servant...
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  • Kes (film) (category Films set in Yorkshire)
    collaborations between Ken Loach and Barry Hines that used authentic Yorkshire dialect. The extras were all hired from in and around Barnsley. The DVD version...
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    Gordon, E, V (1923). "Scandinavian Influence in Yorkshire Dialects". Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. 4: 5–22.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint:...
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    Tees. Traditional Northumbrian dialects (in the broadest sense of the word) are now essentially extinct in some Yorkshire areas where they were previously...
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    spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide...
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  • feature of several dialects of English, notably Cockney, Essex dialect, Estuary English, some West Country and Yorkshire dialects, African American Vernacular...
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  • Sample". Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society: 1–5. "Golcar, Yorkshire - Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | British Library - Sounds"...
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  • culture of Edinburgh published in the same year. Glossaries of the dialects of Yorkshire (1878), Cheshire (1886), and Northumberland (1892) equate crack...
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    Warwickshire). It was also related to the verb to larrack in the Yorkshire dialect, meaning 'to lark about'. While larrikin eventually fell into disuse...
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  • Yorkshire dialect. Final unstressed /i/ is a tense [i] rather than a lax [ɪ]. This mirrors other North Eastern dialects and contrasts with Yorkshire English...
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    from the Yorkshire Dialect Society. In its early years, the day was not widely acknowledged. A 1991 Times editorial read: Today is Yorkshire Day. Not...
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  • Scuffler (category Yorkshire cuisine)
    A scuffler is a word in Yorkshire dialect originating from the Castleford area meaning a large bread cake. This bread is always baked in rounds, and scored...
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  • Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse due to the Viking influence in this region. The name "Yorkshire", first...
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