![]() The Speak methods generate speech synchronously. Synchronously speaks the contents of a string. Synchronously speaks the contents of a PromptBuilder object. Synchronously speaks the contents of a Prompt object. Not sure that bagsey is specifically Yorkshire - we used it in middlesex/surrey in the 60s when I was a kid.Īllus towd."a ginnel is a snicket wi` a roof on."Ginnels being covered entries leading through to backs of terraced houses or shops etc.Whereas,Snickets sometimes even had a bit of grass down them.Generates speech output synchronously from a string, a Prompt object, or a PromptBuilder object. "Khalied" - drunk"Dishclart" - dishcloth Also, couple of sayings I rememebr being popular in my Mum's generation:"It's a bit black over our Bill's mother's" (meaning, it's looking like rain)"Two runs round the table and a sniff at the watter tap" (Said in response to the question "what's for dinner?") My Dad used to say Ah Kid -his younger brother Ah Lass- his wife and Cery- you see Also "theres a fairy at the bottom of my garden and her name is nuff - Fairynuff" dont know if they are yorkshire sayings but he lived all his life in Doncaster Little fly upon the wall aint you got no clothes at all, no shirt no shimmy anrt you cold, course im flamin cold. When I was a kid my Grandpa used to put me on his shoulders and say a rhyme. My first language is not English, sothis article helps me understand some dialects. Hello.Now I'm reading 'God's own country' by Ross Raisin. The only that I can think up at the moment is "ows thi ben since i sor thi" (which came from a friend from Yorkshire that I no longer have contact with). I'd like to include a Yorkshire phrase or sentence, something kind of hard to translate for someone that doesn't really speak it. The jist of it is to see how much of an anglophile one really is. "Clap cold".as in a cup of tea.I'm not drinking that, its clap cold Is on for Yorkshire words beginning with Q, V, X or Z!.Ĭomment on this article, please use this form. I'll go to't foot of't stairs/ I'll go to our house Unattractive girl I don't like very much has stolen my packed lunch Watch it, you're on a Scarborough warning young lady". Organise a p*** up in a brewery/ couldn't organise a set of fat bobbiesīehaviour that will result in a punishment, i.e. Really cold (not 'hungry' as you might expect) or makes cold eg: "Milk ![]() apparently because Spanish monks bought a licquorice tree to Rievaulx You see? (often used at the end of a sentence) "I'm completely paggered" or "I've just paggeredĬheeky/bit of a character e.g. Often exclaimation that an individual is 'soft' for feeling the cold ![]() With something, as in "stop mitherin' me" is "stop "Is your Lesley coming out to lake?"), playingīe angry, moody (like having a 'monk on') To our Yorkshire dialect expert's poem 'Down in't coyle oyle' "you'll get a good braying" or "I'll bray you" In a good state of health, i.e.'How's Martha?', 'She's badly.'Į.g. "I'll 'appen that's it" for "that's possibly Listen to our dialect expert's Yorkshire poem. This, try our How-Yorkshire-are-you?quiz and Think of any more Yorkshire words to add to this Glossary, let us know This page has been archived and is no longer updated.Ī Yorkshire dialect glossary for you - feel free to tell
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