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Yorkshire Dialect

Yorkshire Dialect. Sarah Sandström Hu1 . History. Yorkshire dialect is an ancient form of speech and often similar to the original Angelo – Saxon and old norse. York is a shortened form of Jorvik which was the viking name . http://www.yorkshire-england.co.uk/About_Yorkshire.html.

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Yorkshire Dialect

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  1. Yorkshire Dialect Sarah Sandström Hu1

  2. History Yorkshire dialect is an ancient form of speech and often similar to the original Angelo – Saxon and old norse York is a shortened form of Jorvik which was the viking name http://www.yorkshire-england.co.uk/About_Yorkshire.html

  3. Vocabulary & Grammar Yorkshire dialect shares many features with other English dialect usedin northern England or in Scottland Many contractions ending with n’t are shortened to single syllable words for example: ”dun’t -doesn’tcun’t – couldn’tshun’t – shouldn’twun’t – wouldn’t mun’t – wouldn’t mun’t – mustn’t’an’t – hasn’tin’t – isn’t Nouns describing units of value, weight, distance, height and sometimes volumes of liquid have npplural marker. For exemple:Ten punds – ten pundFive miles – five mile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_dialect

  4. How to speak ”Yorkish” Prononciation You leave out several letters of a word. For example: ”happening” would be pronounced ”app’nin” Instead of saying ”yes”, they say ”aye”And instead of ”no it’s ”nayor nah” Words ending with the ”ee” sound arepronounced as ”eh” For example: ”Nasty” becomes ”Nasteh” Instead of saying you,people say ”thee” and ” tha”For example : Where are you going?Becomes : Where’s tha think tha’s going’ http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-a-Yorkshire-Accent

  5. How to speak ”Yorkish” The word ”Nowt” means ”Nothing” A friendly greeting phrase could be: Ey up, how’s tha doin? ”H” sounds are dropped when speakingFor example: Him/Her = im/er Instead of saying ”fucking” when cursing they say ”bloody” or as pronounced ”bloodeh” Give or gives becomes ”giz”and ”take” becomes ”tek” When the letter T is at the end of a wordit is always dropped. For example”That” becomes ”tha” http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-a-Yorkshire-Accent

  6. Interview This interview is with two bandmembers from a Yorkshire band called ”Asking Alexandria” Their name is Danny Worsnop and Ben Bruce. NOTE! People might find this interview strong languaged. Humor needed. (No need to listen to the entire interview it’s 36.31 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZRGCr9uyQ

  7. Final Task As a final optinal task listen to the link below This is a acoustic version of one of their song someone, somewhere. Listen to itand see if you can find any diffrences between them and usual american http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN45frAwq-Y

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