HOW many people know that Yorkshire has its own unique language?” asks Rod Dimbleby, retired teacher of modern languages and an expert ...

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 ...

Does tha kno't old way o' callin'? "If thee dun't, this is fer thee," claims Bradford language and dialect enthusiast Peter Keane who has been out and about across the county to find the extent to ...

What's tha laikin at? Put wood in t'oil. I'm starved 'ere. It's not a foreign language, and it's not a snippet from the 1980s children's drama Jonny Briggs. Although the storyline would have ...

These quintessentially Yorkshire expressions are still used across God's Own Country ...

When was the last time you wore a raddy-doo? What about a bicker-bock? The answer to the first question probably depends on how fashionable you are, because in the traditional Holderness dialect, a ...

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When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak the same language as you or have a different accent. You’ll also notice if they use different ...

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 ...