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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"The" Yorkshire dialect? That's asking for trouble. There's more than one. In fact you could argue there's as many as there are placenames in Yorkshire. And then there are the unspoken-of hybrids on the borders to other counties, even, horrors, L**cashire. [There's an old saying: "They're odd in Tod" (i.e. "people in Todmorden are strange"), and that'd be why. At least partly. Straddling the border and all that.]

There's a similar situation on the continent. Every village has its own dialect that can be radically different from the country's standardised language, and slightly different to the village next door, and like those in Yorkshire, they're also on the verge of extinction.

(I would like to have delivered this comment in my local dialect, but I regret that I don't know enough of it, even if I do unwittingly use a few words and phrases here and there with family. The closest you'll see here is the use of "there's as many" rather than "there are as many".)