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Yorkshire dialect

Index Yorkshire dialect

The Yorkshire dialect (also Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, Yorkie, or Yorkshire English) is an English dialect of Northern England spoken in England's historic county of Yorkshire. [1]

147 relations: A Kestrel for a Knave, Alex Turner (musician), Alexander John Ellis, All Creatures Great and Small (film), All Creatures Great and Small (TV series), Anglic languages, Anglo-Frisian languages, Arctic Monkeys, Barnsley, BBC, BBC Home Service, BBC One, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Regional Programme, Black Country, Bradford, British Library, Catchphrase, Daily Mirror, Days of Hope, Def Leppard, Definite article reduction, Denby Dale, Desert Island Discs, Dialect, Diphthong, Doctor Who, Double negative, Downton Abbey, Dumbledore's Army, Emily Brontë, Emmerdale, English language, English language in England, English language in Northern England, F. W. Moorman, Filí, Folk music, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Game of Thrones, Geordie, George R. R. Martin, Germanic languages, Gervase Phinn, Glottal stop, Graham Fellows, Grime (music genre), H-dropping, Happy Valley (TV series), ..., Harry Potter, HBO, Historic counties of England, Historical period drama, Holme Valley, Huddersfield, ITV (TV network), Jamaica, James Herriot, Jarvis Cocker, Jodie Whittaker, Joe Elliott, John C. Wells, John Hartley (poet), John Prescott, John Shuttleworth (character), Jon McClure, Joseph Wright (linguist), K. M. Petyt, Ken Loach, Kes (film), Lancashire, Lancashire dialect, Last Tango in Halifax, Little Man Tate (band), Looks and Smiles, Matthew Lewis (actor), Mercia, Mexborough, Michael Angelis, Middle English, Middle-earth dwarf characters, Milburn (band), Monophthong, Music of Jamaica, Mytholmroyd, Nazism, Ned Stark, Netherton, Wakefield, Nicholas Nickleby, Nick Park, Northumbrian dialect (Old English), Nova Scotia, Old English, Old Norse, On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at, Paul Copley, Peter Sallis, Philip Oakey, Poet laureate, Pulp (band), Received Pronunciation, Reverend and The Makers, Rhoticity in English, Rick Savage, Ripon, River Wharfe, Royston, South Yorkshire, Sally Wainwright, Schwa, Sean Bean, Shibboleth, South Yorkshire, Standard English, Survey of English Dialects, T-glottalization, T–V distinction, Ted Hughes, Th-fronting, The Cribs, The English Dialect Dictionary, The Fat Controller, The Guardian, The Hobbit (film series), The Human League, The Navigators (film), The Price of Coal, The Secret Garden, Thirsk, Thirteenth Doctor, Thomas & Friends, Thorin Oakenshield, Toddla T, Trap-bath split, Voiceless velar fricative, Wakefield, Wallace and Gromit, West Germanic languages, West Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Wilfred Pickles, Windhill and Wrose, World of A Song of Ice and Fire, World War II, Wuthering Heights, X-SAMPA, Yorkshire. Expand index (97 more) »

A Kestrel for a Knave

A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968.

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Alex Turner (musician)

Alexander David Turner (born 6 January 1986) is an English musician.

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Alexander John Ellis

Alexander John Ellis, (14 June 1814 – 28 October 1890) was an English mathematician, philologist and early phonetician, who also influenced the field of musicology.

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All Creatures Great and Small (film)

All Creatures Great and Small is a British film from 1975 (copyrighted in 1974), directed by Claude Whatham and starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins as the Yorkshire vets James Herriot and Siegfried Farnon.

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All Creatures Great and Small (TV series)

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot.

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Anglic languages

The Anglic languages (also called the English languages or Insular Germanic languages) are a group of linguistic varieties including Old English and the languages descended from it.

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Anglo-Frisian languages

The Anglo-Frisian languages are the West Germanic languages which include Anglic (or English) and Frisian.

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Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield.

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Barnsley

Barnsley (locally) is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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BBC Radio 1Xtra

BBC Radio 1Xtra (also known simply as 1Xtra) is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in urban music.

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BBC Regional Programme

The BBC Regional Programme was a UK radio broadcasting service which was on the air from 9 March 1930 – when it replaced a number of earlier BBC local stations – until 1 September 1939, when it was subsumed into the BBC Home Service, two days before the outbreak of World War II.

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Black Country

The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham, and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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Bradford

Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Days of Hope

Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975.

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Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement.

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Definite article reduction

Definite article reduction (DAR) is the term used in recent linguistic work to refer to the use of vowel-less forms of the definite article the in Northern dialects of English English, for example in the Yorkshire dialect and accent.

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Denby Dale

Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England, to the south east of Huddersfield.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Diphthong

A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Double negative

A double negative is a grammatical construction occurring when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence.

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a historical period drama television series set in England in the early 20th century, created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.

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Dumbledore's Army

Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwarts High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge, as well as to learn practical Defence Against the Dark Arts.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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Emmerdale

Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British soap opera set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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English language in England

The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects.

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English language in Northern England

The English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related dialects known as Northern England English (or, simply, Northern English in the United Kingdom).

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F. W. Moorman

Frederic William Moorman (1872–1918) was a poet and playwright, and Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1912 to 1918.

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Filí

A filí was a member of an elite class of poets in Ireland, up until the Renaissance.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British novelist and playwright.

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.

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Geordie

Geordie is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect spoken by its inhabitants.

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George R. R. Martin

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.

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Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn (born 27 December 1946, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England) is an English author and educator.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Graham Fellows

Graham David Fellows (born 22 May 1959 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.

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Grime (music genre)

Grime (also known as, Eskibeat, 8Bar, Sublow and UK Bashment) is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

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H-dropping

H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H sound",.

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Happy Valley (TV series)

Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series filmed and set in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire in Northern England.

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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Holme Valley

Holme Valley is a large civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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James Herriot

James Alfred "Alf" Wight, OBE, FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), known by the pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinary surgeon to write a series of books each consisting of stories about animals and their owners.

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Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician, actor and presenter.

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Jodie Whittaker

Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 17 June 1982) is an English actress.

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Joe Elliott

Joseph Thomas Elliott Jr. (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Def Leppard.

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John C. Wells

John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939 in Bootle, Lancashire) is a British phonetician and Esperantist.

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John Hartley (poet)

John Hartley (1839-1915) was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect.

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John Prescott

John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.

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John Shuttleworth (character)

John Shuttleworth is a fictional singer-songwriter and radio presenter, created by English comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows in 1986.

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Jon McClure

Jon McClure (born 22 December 1981), known as The Reverend, is an English musician.

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Joseph Wright (linguist)

Joseph Wright FBA (31 October 1855 – 27 February 1930) was an English philologist who rose from humble origins to become Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University.

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K. M. Petyt

Keith Malcolm Petyt (usually known as K. M. Petyt) is a sociolinguist and historian.

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Ken Loach

Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film.

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Kes (film)

Kes is a 1969 drama film directed by Ken Loach and produced by Tony Garnett.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancashire dialect

The Lancashire dialect and accent (Lanky) refers to the Northern English vernacular speech of the English county of Lancashire.

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Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax is a British comedy-drama series that broadcast on BBC One, beginning November 2012 and ending with a two-part Christmas special in December 2016.

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Little Man Tate (band)

Little Man Tate were a four-piece indie rock band from Sheffield, England who formed in 2005.

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Looks and Smiles

Looks and Smiles is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ken Loach.

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Matthew Lewis (actor)

Matthew David Lewis (born 27 June 1989) is an English film, television and stage actor, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films, Jamie Bradley in The Syndicate and Corporal Gordon "Towerblock" House in the BBC Three comedy drama Bluestone 42.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Mexborough

Mexborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England.

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Michael Angelis

Michael Angelis (born 18 January 1952) is an English actor and voice actor.

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Middle English

Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.

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Middle-earth dwarf characters

Many of the fictional characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium are dwarves, a short stocky race inhabiting the world of Arda (the Earth in an imagined mythological past).

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Milburn (band)

Milburn are an indie rock band from Sheffield, England that consist of Joe Carnall, Louis Carnall, Tom Rowley, and Joe Green.

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Monophthong

A monophthong (Greek monóphthongos from mónos "single" and phthóngos "sound") is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.

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Music of Jamaica

The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles.

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Mytholmroyd

Mytholmroyd is a large village in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, east of Burnley and west of Halifax.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Ned Stark

Eddard "Ned" Stark is a fictional character in the 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, and the first, sixth and seventh season of Game of Thrones, HBO's adaptation of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Netherton, Wakefield

Netherton is a village in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens.

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Nick Park

Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE (born 6 December 1958) is a director, writer and animator, best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

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Northumbrian dialect (Old English)

Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

"On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) is a folk song from Yorkshire, England.

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Paul Copley

Paul Mackriell Copley (born 25 November 1944) is an English actor and voice-over artist.

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Peter Sallis

Peter John Sallis, (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television.

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Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey (born 2 October 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Poet laureate

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

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Pulp (band)

Pulp were an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978.

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Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

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Reverend and The Makers

Reverend and The Makers are an English rock band based in Sheffield, Yorkshire.

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Rhoticity in English

Rhoticity in English refers to English speakers' pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified.

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Rick Savage

Richard Savage (born 2 December 1960) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist and one of the founding members of the English rock band, Def Leppard.

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Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.

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River Wharfe

The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England.

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Royston, South Yorkshire

Royston is a suburban village within the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sally Wainwright

Sally A Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director from Yorkshire.

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Schwa

In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa (rarely or; sometimes spelled shwa) is the mid central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, denoted by the IPA symbol ə, or another vowel sound close to that position.

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Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959), known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor.

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Shibboleth

A shibboleth is any custom or tradition, particularly a speech pattern, that distinguishes one group of people (an ingroup) from others (outgroups).

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Standard English

Standard English (SE) is the variety of English language that is used as the national norm in an English-speaking country, especially as the language for public and formal usage.

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Survey of English Dialects

The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds.

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T-glottalization

In English phonology, t-glottalization or t-glottaling is a sound change in certain English dialects and accents that causes the phoneme to be pronounced as the glottal stop in certain positions.

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T–V distinction

In sociolinguistics, a T–V distinction (from the Latin pronouns tu and vos) is a contrast, within one language, between various forms of addressing one's conversation partner or partners that are specialized for varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, age or insult toward the addressee.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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Th-fronting

Th-fronting refers to the pronunciation of the English "th" as "f" or "v".

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The Cribs

The Cribs are an English indie rock band originally from Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

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The English Dialect Dictionary

The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is a dictionary of English dialects, compiled by Joseph Wright (1855–1930).

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The Fat Controller

The Fat Controller (real name: Sir Topham Hatt) is a fictional character in The Railway Series books written by the Reverend W. Awdry and his son, Christopher.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hobbit (film series)

The Hobbit is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson.

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The Human League

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Navigators (film)

The Navigators is a 2001 British film directed by Ken Loach with screenplay by Rob Dawber.

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The Price of Coal

The Price of Coal is a two-part television drama written by Barry Hines and directed by Ken Loach first broadcast as part of the Play for Today series in 1977.

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911, after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910.

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Thirsk

Thirsk is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Thirteenth Doctor

The Thirteenth Doctor is the current incarnation of the Doctor, the fictional protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends or Thomas the Tank Engine; also known as Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! in the twenty-second season) is a British children's television series.

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Thorin Oakenshield

Thorin II Oakenshield, son of Thráin, son of Thrór, King under the Mountain is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.

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Toddla T

Thomas Mackenzie Bell (born 22 February 1985), better known by the stage name of Toddla T, is an English DJ, record producer, remixer and composer from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Trap-bath split

The split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in mainstream and southeastern accents of English in England (including Received Pronunciation), in New Zealand English and South African English, and also to a lesser extent in Australian English as well as older Northeastern New England English (notably, older Boston accents), by which the Early Modern English phoneme was lengthened in certain environments and ultimately merged with the long of father.

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Voiceless velar fricative

The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.

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West Germanic languages

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Wilfred Pickles

Wilfred Pickles, OBE (13 October 1904 – 27 March 1978) was an English actor and radio presenter.

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Windhill and Wrose

Windhill and Wrose (population 14,541 - 2001 UK census) is a ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the districts of Windhill and Wrose around which it is drawn.

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World of A Song of Ice and Fire

The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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X-SAMPA

The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA;, /%Eks"s.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_dialect

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