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	Yorkshire dialect and accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yorkshire dialect and accent refers to the varieties of English used in the northern English county of Yorkshire.
		Many Yorkshire accents have an extra vowel phoneme, pronounced as a diphthong [ɛɪ], used in words with eigh in the spelling, such as eight and weight, which is then pronounced differently from wait.
		As Yorkshire accents are mostly non-rhotic, this means that the plural of badge can sound like the plural of badger and the plural of box can sound like the plural of boxer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yorkshire_accent (1313 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yorkshire accent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		North Yorkshire is a county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England.
		West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire.
		Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yorkshire-accent (1469 words)

	Yorkshire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Yorkshire is the largest (additional info and facts about traditional county of England) traditional county of England, covering some 6,000 (additional info and facts about sq.
		The emblem of Yorkshire is the (additional info and facts about White Rose) White Rose of the (The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose) House of York, and there is a Yorkshire Day: August 1.
		The Yorkshire (The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people) dialect is colloquially known as "Tyke", and this is also the affectionate term for a Yorkshireman.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/yo/yorkshire.htm (846 words)

	English English - Linix Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The accents of this region are uniformly nonrhotic, i.e.
		In Northamptonshire the accent is different between the north and south of the county due to the Danelaw, which split the area that is now modern Northamptonshire in half.
		This means that people in the north of the county have an accent similar to the Leicestershire (Viking controlled area during the Danelaw) accent and those in the south an accent similar to rural Oxfordshire (Saxon area during the Danelaw).
	web.linix.ca /pedia/index.php/English_English (2724 words)

	Kingston upon Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The local accent is distinctive and noticeably different from the standard Yorkshire accent.
		The most notable feature of the accent is the strong "goat fronting"; a word like goat, which is [gəʊt] in standard (southern) English and [goːt] across most of Yorkshire, becomes [gɵːt] ("geurt") in and around Hull.
		Hull is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, Niigata in Japan, Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA, Reykjavik in Iceland, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Szczecin in Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull (1670 words)

	BBC - North Yorkshire - Voices - The Yorkshire dialect
		Having the accent was being part of the "moors" and "Yorkshire Pudding" until you step out of the fern and try to have a conversation with other folk.
		Even moderated, the accent is still there and lots of people like it so we should rightly be proud of our origins and Yak away to our hearts content.We do lose a bit of our accent when away from home over a long period.
		The Yorkshire accent is one of the nicest sounding accents in the country.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/barrie_rhodes.shtml (4096 words)

	Accents in the British Isles... : Fool Moon
		Manchester's "mancx" accent has been very trendy what with the strong music scene there, but it is a tricky accent to do, and pretty awful to most other people's ears.
		Yorkshire is a strong accent, I could probably seperate out people from Leeds, maybe Sheffield and the rural Yawks accent.
		The Nottingham accent, particularly in the north of the city and county, is a milder form of Yorkshire.
	foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=176820 (639 words)

	Distinguishing accents in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Canadian accents vary widely across the country, and the accent of a particular region is often closer to neighbouring parts of the United States.
		The standard American English accent is the neutral dialect spoken by TV network announcers and typical of educated speech in the Upper Midwest, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Philadelphia.
		Welsh accents can be heard from the actors Richard Burton and (to a lesser extent) Anthony Hopkins, or on recordings of Dylan Thomas or in the music of Catatonia, Tom Jones or Shirley Bassey.
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/Distinguishing_accents_in_English.php (3147 words)

	Identity - Identity Within the Countries and Regions of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Yorkshire in the North of England is actually made up of four areas: North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Humberside (The East Riding).
		Each area has its own accent, but generally a Yorkshire accent is produced by way of pronounced articulation (the mouth has to work quite hard to produce the extended sounds).
		Yorkshire accents might better be described as rolling or broad.
	elt.britcoun.org.pl /i_regide.htm (3927 words)

	Features - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		A great Yorkshire academic tradition of recording spoken English and studying the many variations in dialect across the land is continuing in a new partnership with the BBC.
		And within Yorkshire, while more than half of those questioned liked and felt proud of their accent, 18 per cent said they were not proud of their accent, and 56 per cent said they wish, at least occasionally, they had a different one.
		Yorkshire dialect expert Dr Arnold Kellett, of Knaresborough, said: "People should be encouraged to retain their local speech and be able to switch into a kind of standard English when that's required, for example when they are travelling or they think they might not be understood."
	www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=105&ArticleID=921082 (1734 words)

	Macbeth - Reviews - Daily Telegraph
		To complain that Sean Bean has a Yorkshire accent is like complaining that Nigella Lawson is not flat-chested: the attribute is part of the package.
		But it might be the fourth or fifth thought, for the Yorkshire accent, capable of being clipped and warm, aggressive and tender, pompous and down-to-earth all at the same time, can be very sexy.
		Is it because the Yorkshire dialect speakers clung to the final "g" of words ending in "-ng" long after the rest of the English-speaking world had dropped it, that we associate it with resistance to change, therefore trustiness?
	www.compleatseanbean.com /macbeth-reviews-press18.html (762 words)

	BBC News \| EDUCATION \| Students search for real Yorkshire
		A university is launching a unique course on the county of Yorkshire, examining cultural identity from the Bronte sisters to Leeds-born Spice Girl Mel B. It is thought to be the first time a course has been devoted to the study of one county's culture, history and tradition.
		In 1998 the New Oxford Dictionary of English caused uproar by describing Yorkshire as "a former county of Northern England".
		The decision was defended because Yorkshire did not have a local government and the dictionary defined a county as "the chief unit of local administration".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/1209084.stm (317 words)

	BBC - North Yorkshire - Voices - The Yorkshire dialect
		North and East Yorkshire dialects are thought to be much softer in sound than the harsh West Yorkshire dialect.
		Many regional dialects are affected and eroded by the influence of Standard English, changes in society, movement of populations, the media and improvements in education.
		But because so much of Yorkshire - and especially North Yorkshire - is rural and isolated, it has retained many traditional sayings and phrases.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/dialects.shtml (2802 words)

	Want to learn American Accent. \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I think the reason most people have trouble changing their accent is because they don't really listen to themselves when they talk.
		The character Daphne from Frasier uses a Yorkshire accent, even though the actress who plays her is not a Yorkshire native.
		Although I live in Manchester and have a Mancunian accent my dad was born in yorkshire and I luv that accent it sounds really nice and kinda rustic (if u get wot i mean) anyways I think you should keep your yorkshire accent instead of changing it.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/2884.htm (711 words)

	News - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		It is a vision of a county where people wear Manchester United shirts and talk in mock Southern accents while drinking in one of the ever-growing number of "bland" pubs.
		Yorkshire, it suggests, may be "little more than a part of a cultural continuum of Engbland â“ a country where progress is marked by imposing a bland blanket of uniformity, where multinationals impose their logos, fast food and fast culture.
		The fear that Yorkshire's identity could slip away is shared by Dr Arnold Kellett, a historian and expert in Yorkshire dialect, who says proper dialect is dying.
	www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=847698 (840 words)

	icHuddersfield - Eh up, ere's some funny news...
		The Yorkshire accent is recognisable across the world, with famous exponents in sport, broadcasting and almost every sphere of public life.
		More than 5,000 people across the country were quizzed for the BBC poll about their attitudes to dialect, accent and the way we speak.
		Yorkshire folk said they believed Scottish film star Sean Connery and veteran newsreader Trevor McDonald had the nicest voices, while Northern Irish politician Ian Paisley's grating bellow propped up the list.
	ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0330features/tm_objectid=15098001&method=full&siteid=50060&headline=eh-up--ere-s-some-funny-news----name_page.html (382 words)

	BBC News ENGLISH \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That is to say, they have accents that are fairly tyipcal of somebody who has recently immigrated from outside the British isles, whose native tongue is obviously not English.
		The reason for that is the educated with any accents tend not to frequently use glottal stoppings and not to neglect consonants.
		Her accent gives me an impression she is originally from west Asia and was brought up somewhere in the Hounslow area, i.e., west London, since her accent remarkably resembles one of my secretaries' accent who has that sort of ethnic backgound doing her best to sound like someone else.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2002/587.htm (961 words)

	Yorkshire Posts: Study of Yorkshire dialects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Yorkshire accent and language is so different in areas just a few miles apart.
		You are right that Yorkshire folk are very proud of our roots, whether or not we still live in the county.
		Just a few weeks ago someone asked me "why does that woman have such a strong foreign accent", but the accent was actually very Irish, not foreign.
	www.yorkshireposts.com /cgibin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000842 (2060 words)

	British Accents \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I hope this type of question doesn't offend anyone, this 'accent rating' was actually introduced to me by a few Brits - they would say things like, "Her accent is all 'jolly good' and and hockey sticks." I asked them to clarify, and they said it was a really posh accent.
		Northern accents in general are considered working class, including Scouse (Liverpool), Geordie (Newcastle), Mancunian (Manchester) and the Yorkshire accent (especially in Barnsley, where you might as well hire a translator [no offense, Barnslians, I love you guys, but it's true]).
		Questions of class and accent figured importantly in the subtext of the real-life incident and the Dunedin culture of the 1950s, and were painstakingly represented in the film.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/25221 (2789 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| In a measured Yorkshire accent, the July 7 suicide bomber delivers his message of hate
		In a measured Yorkshire accent, the July 7 suicide bomber delivers his message of hate
		It was a chilling warning from the grave, all the more so because of the familiar Yorkshire accent in which it was delivered.
		Seated and wearing a headscarf and anorak, the teaching assistant from west Yorkshire was firm but calm as he spoke, apparently with the aid of a script.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/02/wterr102.xml (838 words)

	FAST-US-8 (TRENAV2E) Reference Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mark Herman) A Yorkshire 'collier band' (brass band made up of the coal miners) tries to stay together as their jobs are on the line.
		Yorkshire speech and Lancashire speech, for example, are quite distinctively different at a general level and both are quite different from the speech of Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria.
		In short, accent (and lexical) differences can be detected over distances of about ten miles and, in many cases, even less than this.
	www.uta.fi /FAST/US8/REF/movie-ac.html (3749 words)

	'The Wednesday Word' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ozzy’s accent is still the same as if he’d just got off a train from New Street.
		Having a regional accent is nothing to be ashamed of.
		Patrick Stewart is from Yorkshire originally, and when he first went to drama classes he didn’t have the perfect English that we know today.
	www.djarra.co.uk /words/fact/archive/110203.html (757 words)

	Peter Sutcliffe, Britain's famous Yorkshire Ripper, serial killer - The Crime Library
		At the press conference, Oldfield announced the Geordie connection and asked firms in the West Yorkshire area to check their records of employees who had been sent to Sunderland during March 1978 and March 1979.
		Professor Gee, the pathologist who had worked on all of the Yorkshire Ripper cases, believed that the knife used to stab Barbara was the same one used on Josephine Whittaker.
		By now there were few people who would have ever suspected a bearded lorry driver with a Yorkshire accent living in Bradford, only a five-minute drive away form police headquarters.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/sutcliffe/herring_10.html (2113 words)

	Distinguishing accents in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Some of the regional accents are easily identified with certain characteristics.
		Internationally known actors Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and Sarah Wynter speak in their natural Australian accents when not acting.
		The Speech Accent Archive, over 250 audio samples of people with various accents reading the same paragraph.
	www.enlightenweb.net /d/di/distinguishing_accents_in_english.html (2555 words)

	Yorkshire from Afar. A website for people from Yorkshire - look for old friends and meet new ones
		The first question I was asked on the phone was, eagerly “Did he have a local accent?” When I said that he did and confirmed that it was a Yorkshire accent I had heard and not a Geordie one, they lost interest completely.
		We knew this from the cashier in the supermarket who’d heard from her daughter’s boyfriend who worked in the police canteen that the ripper had actually emigrated to New Zealand.
		Only a few weeks after her murder, Peter Sutcliffe was arrested by South Yorkshire police when he was found with a prostitute in a car which had false number plates.
	www.yorkshirewebsite.com /ripper.html (1236 words)

	The poetic art of Dorothy Cowlin. Part one: the novels. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the two leads meet again on a rural Yorkshire station platform, a train of coaches rattles thru like the slides of a mad projectionist.
		Mrs Carr is presented to us in full glory of her Broad Yorkshire accent, which is authentic.
		He spent three weeks in Yorkshire transcribing the dialect, using his phonetic shorthand, from his reporting days in the courts and parliament.
	www.lit4lib.sky7.us /dc.htm (4140 words)

	Linda Barker in The AnswerBank: Film & TV
		I want to say I have NOTHING against Yorkshire, or the accent, in fact I used to live in Yorkshire, it is just her accent that drives me up the wall......
		It does seem to be the pitch of her voice that annoys people, not so much the fact that she comes from Yorkshire.
		It's not so much her accent it is the pitch of her voice that jarrs us especially when everything is "fantaaaaastic".
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Film_and_TV/Question34267.html (486 words)

	Martial Arts Planet - Geordies...
		I recently heard a comedian from the UK speak of and in the Geordian accent and describe it as the funniest accent in the UK.
		I could quite easily be mistaked for having a Yorkshire accent rather than Lancashire by a foreigner - yet I can tell to withing 5 miles around where I live which town someone is from.
		Yeah, I don't usually make that mistook but their accent really threw me. They sounded Yorkshire to me. I calmed them down by saying that people in Yorkshire don't really like 'Southerners' either.
	www.martialartsplanet.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3163 (387 words)

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