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Yorkshire English is a variation of British English spoken by the people of the Yorkshire counties in England. Why learn Yorkshire English? The population of Yorkshire, at almost 5 million people, is greater than that of Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Many famous people have come from yorkshire amongst them writers such as the Bronte sisters, Ted Hughes and JB Priestley, actors such as Sean Bean, Brian Blessed, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench and Ben Kingsley, bands and musicans such as the Kaiser Chiefs, the Arctic Monkeys, Jarvis Cocker and John Barry, not to mention the odd villain such as Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper and of course Guy Falkes.

Yorkshire English for beginners lesson 1.7/12/2007

Lesson 1
Spoken Yorkshire.
The word "the" is frequently replaced with what is known as a glottal stop, similar to a T but not as pronounced. "Go to" is simplified to "gu" These characteristics help reduce the length of needlessly long sentences.

Example 1.
Standard English
"Do you want to go to the pub?"
Yorkshire English
"Do you wanna gu' pub?"

The second person.
English has always had a problem with the second person, unlike many other languages there is no distinction between the way in which one addresses one person or a group of people. The word is always "you." Some clumsy ways of getting around this problem have been to say "you all" or "you lot" Yorkshire English however solves this problem simply and logically by forming the plural as for any other English noun, the addition of an "S"

Example
Standard English
"What are you all doing tonight?"
Yorkshire English
"What are yous doing tonight?"

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Yorkshire Lessons7/12/2007
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