Yorkshire dialect and phrases.

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Excerpt from So You Know Sheffield and the Peak District 2009

                      (See book and page below)

“Tha talks reet funny” - By Chris Toffer ©

They say Yorkshire folk - they “talk reet funny”,

Using words like brass instead o’ money.

If nardendee really means now then you,

What does a Yorkshire visitor do?

They rack their brains and their face turns red,

T’aint their fault they weren’t born and bred,

In Yorkshire where they’d grow to understand,

It’s the finest place throughout the land.

Our dialect is special and down to earth,

Outsiders try to speak it to our mirth,

We don’t mince our words and we don’t worry

If they can’t understand, there’s no need to hurry.

Show no emotion and youv’e done the job,

Say it tight lipped wi a fag in yer gob.

Ey lad, bereet and gerrusanother,

Can only be understood by a Yorkshire brother.

It’s our secret and we’re proud orrit,

Joining up words and makin em fit,

Inta long words wi out any space

But theve’ gorra be spoken wi a straight face.

It’s the way it is , and it’s through evoilution,

Hard manual graft helped forge this solution,

Changing the language so it rolls off the tongue,

It is worrit is and it didn’t take us long.

We’re proud of our dialect and worrits become,

Taint our fault tharrits not understood by some.

But there is one way you can end all the fuss...

Move to Yorkshire and be one of us!

Phrases from So You Know Sheffield and the Peak District 2009

•    Tint int tin

•    As tha gorreny?

•    Put t’ wood int ole

•    Getyer  at and coyit

•    Tek yer tranklements anall

•    Al sithee

•    Eh up      

•    Worrit is

•    Berreet

•    Gerrusanother

•    Nardendee

•    Shut tha cake ole

Translation

•    It is not in the tin

•    Have you got any?

•    Close the door  (because it is cold)

•    Get your hat and coat

•    Take everything with you as well

•    I will see you sometime

•    can mean - “Hello” or  that

     “something is  not quite right”

•    What it is

•    It will be right / okay

•    Get me another one    

        (especially beer)

•    Now then you   ( A challenge)

•    Be quiet - (Do not speak).

  I remember having to cut up newspapers into small squares and then threading the corners onto a string loop, so I could hang it up in the outside toilet as toilet paper.   By ‘eck we ad it rough!

   By    C.  Who still has a sore Ar......

 How about this Yorkshire tale then?

 We were that poor I had to cut up cardboard boxes to put  

 it in my shoes and block up the holes in my soles so I didn’t get my feet wet when it rained.

Shoes - Luxury....    Editor

  I read about the nostalgic things that people remember in the Sheffield book and wondered if anyone had to go round the street looking for pop bottles so we could get the deposits back on them to buy sweets....?

   By    D. W.  Who thinks he had it rougher ...

   I remember when skinheads had put superglue on   

   the toilet seats in the toilets in the “Hole in the

   Road” .... I remember one man being carried out

   With a blanket round him stuck to a toilet seat.....

 I always wondered if police had anything to go on....

  In that enquiry .....  

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