American Couple Reacts: Yorkshire, England: Guessing & Learning Yorkshire Expressions and Dialect! 

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He is clearly from yorkshire but speaking in a way that i used to call my mum,s "telephone voice" which she would adopt when answering a call...hah

Bagsy is not just about front seat of car but anything you want to claim before anyone else. eg. Bagsy the last chocolate, bagsy the left over yorkshire puddings

I am from the Midlands and my mum was from Devon and most of those expressions were commonplace in our house. As far as I could tell only two were exclusive to Yorkshire and they were "Be Reicht" and "Ginnel". My dad was always telling me to, "put the wood in the 'ole "when I was a kid (referring to the wooden door being fitted into the hole in the wall). We don't use the term Wood to mean what you were thinking! A northern expression which always confused me is "Well, I'll go t' foot of our stairs!" For some reason this means "I'm Flabbergasted!" I think the Scots more often use the term Lassie that just Lass. I haven't heard the term Ciggie (meaning cigarette) for a long time. Brits usually refer to them as Fags (which is derived from the Navy term for the smouldering piece of rope used for firing the cannons . . The Fag End). I guess "having a fag behind the cycle sheds", means something entirely different in the US.

Being from Yorkshire/Lancashire and watching this, paying attention to how we chop our words up, and all the small little phrases that have no meaning outside of the UK - makes me conscious of how little things in my speech must seem quite odd to Americans. No wonder they always think I'm Scottish, lol.

I’m originally from Sheffield which is only 35 miles from Leeds but our pronunciation of those phrases is markedly different.

Thank you so much for this video. As a yorkshire lass, you had me crying with laughter, especially your look of total shock natasha after put wood int'ole. Your laugh is very infectious. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE

Reading some of the comments below, they are right in saying that the Yorkshire accent differs from place to place. There is also proper dialect words that are a legacy of our Viking past. For example, the word 'Laik' is used instead of the word 'play' ie. play a game or playing out ( laiking out). Also words like 'thee and thou' are used to refer to a person instead of 'you'. If you want to get a brilliant taste of proper Yorkshire, try to get a film called 'Kes'. This was filmed in the late 1960's in and around Barnsley. You will probably need subtitles to understand the dialogue! Love and peace from South Yorkshire.

My mum has a book somewhere and I remember reading that the fishermen of Flamborough in East Yorkshire could converse with their Danish counterparts as recently as the 1800s. A shame that the real dialects and different words dating back to the Vikings are increasingly lost.

A lot of these aren't only used in Yorkshire. For example, " faffing about" is used in Sussex as well as many other places.

Funny thing during the war my grandmother was evacuated to yorkshire from Brighton. When she went back home her dad who was a bit of a snob sent her for elocution lessons because she had picked up the accent🤣🤣🤣 forty something years later my parents moved us to the same area she had been evacuated to and I went to the same school. I've been in yorkshire for 34 years.

When he omits the double t in "butty", that's a common feature across quite a few British accents called a glottal stop. The contracting of words is more common in the North. (You'll hear Peter Kay doing it, for instance.) You can guess where a person is from by the pet names they use, as these are distinct from region to region. Depending on where you are in the country, you might be called "petal", "flower", "love", "pet", "duck", etc. In the Midlands (where I'm from), people will call you "chick", "chicken", "cocker" or "cock". Brits don't make it easy to make a family friendly show. 😂

These expressions are not confined to Yorkshire. I'm in south east England and use most of them. Perhaps this chap has never left his own county.

Being from Lincolnshire, a lot of these expressions do carry over from t'other side of the Humber! 'Butty', comes from a buttered sandwich. The most popular variety which it's used is a, 'chip butty.' Preferably hot chips in a generously buttered sandwich. Gorgeous, if done right! Chewing gum was always referred to as, 'spoggy', where I lived! 🤣 'Put door int' 'ole', reminds me of something said when you obscure someone's view, (usually of the television at home.) Namely, 'you make a better door than a window!' I could add on one from my neck of the woods, that is to do what's deemed necessary in order to arrive at work on time. 'Gerra potato clock!' Which simply means, 'Get up at 8'oclock.'

I'm a Leeds lass. I've never used the word 'mardy' .... I'd most likely say ' put ya face straight will ya'. I used to confuse my hubby when we first met as he is not a yorkshire lad. I'd say ' spuggie, instead of sparrow' ,to play or mess about was ' what ya laiking at' and to look for something was ' to scout about or scout around for it'. The one my dad used to say when the weather was freezing' its so cold, I don't know whether I'm Arthur or Martha'

Born and bred in London and was making cakes for a friend's restaurant. They asked if I wanted a brew. I looked at the floor, thinking I'd made a mess, and they were offering me a broom 🤣 BTW, you are such a sweet couple

That was so funny! Loved your reaction

Funnily enough “shut the front door” is another expression we use. This means an expression of disbelief

I did not get all of these either, especially the wood in the hole one. My mind started wandering as well 🤣😂. Did not think that they were talking about closing the door. Good work again girls.

You also have to get used to the implied 'the' in Yorkshire, we used to shorten it to t' i.e. 'I'm off in t' kitchen' and in some areas this is still the case, but in Leeds where I live the 'the' is now implied as in 'I'm off in ' kitchen'. You may notice the short pause where the 'the' would be used. Edit: I did this before he covered it but I'll leave it up.

The euphemism that is putting the wood in the hole, that phrase will never be the same again 🤣

Natasha,you are a total nutter. Love the intros to your videos,keep it up. And Debbie is really coming out of her shell,showing her funny side. And obviously why you fell in love with her like we all have,cant wait for next video. As Jerry said "take care of yourselves, and each other"

Greetings from Yorkshire, (West Yorkshire, Leeds) enjoyed this video.. you did great

Great video! Also were you born in a barn? Said after you've left the door open lol. Happy birthday Debbie! 🥳

Some of these expressions are in general use and not exclusive to the county of Yorkshire. He missed out that in Yorkshire they still use 'thee' ('sit thee down' = please sit down), 'thou' and 'yonder'. They also use 'while' meaning until. As in 'I wont see him while the weekend'.

You actually did quite well with those. As you will have discovered, accents can differ a lot within just a few miles in the UK and because Yorkshire is the biggest county accents and expressions can differ a lot across the county and gets diluted a bit at the edges. So in North Yorkshire (where I’m from) some phrases and expressions and the accent differs quite a bit to South and West Yorkshire.

I've never laughed so much 😂 great video. Happy birthday Debbie for tomorrow have good un.

Well done, you’ve done really well! 👍❤️ Happy birthday for tomorrow Debbie. Have a wonderful day xx

"Chuddy" and Ginnel" are the only two I've never come across before? I'll ask my mate from Leeds. I've worked for decades with northerners too. The rest I've heard in use, from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands too? They others are just spoken elsewhere in the British Isles, with a different dialect.

Great video! There were a few of these I’d never heard before so I learnt something as well 🙂

Ay up Natasha and Debbie. Love the word "mardy," often relates to a child's behaviour. e.g. having a tantrum, being sulky because they haven't got their own way

I love how you got from 'ey up' to Freddie. That was so good and funny! :-D

Hilarious watching you two on the verge of needing a brown paper bag. (Hyperventilating).

Thank you ladies for such a good laugh especially at this time. Happy birthday Debbie

I was totally lost on these expressions!! No idea what any of them meant! But I thought Americans were the only ones who shortened words & slurred them together!!😂😂

Where I come from, "snicket" and "ginnel" are two separate things: a "snicket" is in the open, whereas a "ginnel" is covered - i.e. a tunnel through a building.

Hey up lasses. Absolutely loved that reaction. Love seeing you both break down with 'put wood int ole' classic. I'm from leeds so this vid brought it home. Happy Birthday for tomorrow Debbie xx

Hilarious Vid, well done and a very Happy Birthday for tomorrow Debbie 🎉🎂

Loved that video. Especially the reaction to Wood ‘n’ t’ hole. And I learnt a new word Chuddy. Never heard that before x

Great content guys 👍🏻 this was a really fun watch 🙂

I would say over half of these are not exclusive to Yorkshire. Wonder how many real exclusive phrases he missed? Over to you, Yorkshire lads, lasses and little TYKES, let us know.

Love it well done ladies. Deffo do the Geordie one too! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE for tomorrow have a great day Natasha spoil Debbie 😘 Don't forget to put wood int ole.

My dad was a Yorkshire man and never lost his accent after he'd lived in Nottingham for 41 years.

the only one i had no idea on was ginnel. we say jitty for a small alley. that was a fun video though. happy birthday for monday Debbie.

so funny 🤣🤣 Happy Birthday Debbie! 💐 xx

The accent for shutting the door is ‘put wood int’oil’ and is often accompanied with ‘was ta born in a barn?’ Another door related saying was ‘tha makes a better door than a winder, lad’: in other words you’re in the way.

Am a Kiwi first job in England was in a Portsmouth pub. First order was a Brown and bitter, from Yorkshireman. It took 6 attempts to understand and I till needed help from a local.

Thank you every so much for the great start to the day. There's nothing quite like having a good laugh with you two lovely lassies. Another brilliant vid. Happy Birthday for tomorrow Debbie and many happy returns.

Thank you for this video made me smile and giggle so much 💖

I've now watched a load of your videos so I have now just subscribed.

Happy birthday Debbie.😘

Congratulations ladies on reaching 15,000 subscribers 💕

I’m from Nottingham. One of our favourite sayings is “ey up me duck”, a greeting meaning really just hello. Happy birthday Debbie for Monday. My husband’s birthday was on Saturday. No one likes getting older but as it said on one of his birthday cards, you’re only a day older than yesterday. Keep up the good work girls.

21 again ! I know the feeling. Happy birthday debbie!!🥳🥳🇬🇧

Been watching your channel, this reaction to “put wood in hole” is the best one yet!

This vid is class! I've laughed so much lol x

Hi ladies, I'm from North Yorkshire and that was hilarious, couldn't stop laughing at your guesses. I didn't realise that I use all them words apart from ginnel, never heard of that one. You guys crack me up love watching you. That was so much fun. It's the same for us trying to guess southern states in America like Louisiana or somewhere. It's hard to figure out. Cant wait for your next video. 🤗

This gave me a good laugh :) Great reaction.

Some of these are used on the other side of the Pennines in Lancashire/Greater Manchester (Red Rose county areas). Older dialect on the Western side of the Pennines is quite similar to places like Leeds. The stereotypical 'Manc' Manchester accent is generational; despite my being born in Manchester in the 1960s, hearing the Gallagher brothers 'Oasis' accent was quite rare until the 1990s.

I laughed all the way through this vlog. I'm Yorkshire, born and bred. I could see exactly what you two were thinking about Put wood int door. So funny. Here's one I prepared earlier. Itintinttin. It isn't in the tin. Have a nice day. Have a gud'n.

Watched you guys from the start, commented a few times, liked every vid but wasn’t subscribed lol. Couldn’t believe it when I checked 🤦🏻‍♂️🥰

In’t is definitely associated with Yorkshire here in London. We also are aware that Tykes (Yorkshire folk) like to say that ‘I like what I say and I bloody say what I like’ 😄. They are famous for being blunt.

Happy birthday Debbie, much love and best wishes 👍💖🎂🎁😊.

I am from Leeds (Yorkshire) and there is a Yorkshire mantra: Hear all, see all say nowt Eat all, drink all, pay nowt and if tha does owt for nowt; do it fer thissen.

I'm laffin at put wood int ole . This video and your laughter is fantastic .

Just looked up "Dibs" as I have heard it used here occasionally. Apparently it comes from the 17th century childrens game "Dibstones". I'm sure someone will argue the toss about that though?

Happy birthday Debbie! Ha Have a great day. Btw .. If you go to a fish & chips shop, you can ask for a bag of scraps..that is a bag of the crispy bits of batter left over from cooking the fish .. A bag of scraps. Not as wild as "Put the wood in the hole"!! Lol Love your reactions to the vids lol!!! X

Hi ladies, I'm a new subscriber & I've been watching your videos & came across this one, this is so funny, I'm actually from Yorkshire, South Yorkshire actually & we take the way we speak for granted, I didn't realise until I watched this that we practically speak a different language lol, you only have to go a few miles either way to other places & the accent changes, again I loved this it was hilarious, keep up the good work I'm enjoying watching you both xx

I moved to Yorkshire over 20 years ago and I'm still what they call an "off comed 'un" (Somebody who is not from the area) - we do take pleasure in telling off-comed un's "T'int int tin" (It isn't in the tin). There is a song about the moor at my town "On Ilkley Moor Bar Tat" (Bar Tat means without your hat). Some of these are not only Yorkshire, My Dad used to say put the wood in the hole, were you born in a barn? when I was growing up down south. In the county that calls a ginnel a twitten, and brought the world the "Trug". Happy Birthday Debbie hope you have a good'un

If it’s any consolation, I don’t understand the “put wood int ole” either 🤷‍♀️😂

I love put wood int ‘ole ‘ shut the door’ 🤣🤣🤣 Or another great one is if it’s cold and you forget to shut the door someone might say “ Were you born in a barn?! Shut the door!’ 🤣🤣

I know you probably won't see this because this was posted over a year ago but happy Yorkshire day. Lots of love from South Yorkshire xxx

Hi. I love this kind of thing. From ages 1 to 7 I lived in a small village north-west of Sheffield. I developed a very strong Yorkshire accent. A couple of phrases I used at that time are things like; "geor nah uw!" which means 'give over now you! I.e. "please stop that!" Folk would regularly refer to each other as thee (you), thy(your), thas(yours). And places were often referred to as oil(hole), particularly "chip oil", the fish and chips shop and "schoil oil", and also '"lug oils", ear holes/ ears. For example, "open thee lug oils, lad. I said, get darn' chip oil 'fore it shuts! " At 7 years of age we moved Rochdale, Lancashire. Outlanders, find the Lancashire and Yorkshire accents indistinguishable. But I had great difficulty adjusting, particularly around the words were, where, there etc. In my Sheffield accent I pronounce them as "they'ah", "way'ah" etc, my Lancastrian school mates pronounced them "wurr", "thurr". L: "Wurr's ur 'ows then?", Y: "owun they'ah."Lanc: 'Where is your house, then?", York: "Over there". I have a phrase for you that my Rochdalian family would always ask me as a child, when visiting, to my immense chagrin. I have never heard it any other place or time, although I expect it is fairly widespread, and sounds very much like a Southern person (American) might say: "Are ya courtin', lad?" Edit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I2AcJSkUw6M.html For your entertainment!

We used Bagsy all the time at school but this was in the south east of England and was in the 1970's!

I got the American meaning of Put wood into 'ole straight away. Haha your faces were great!

That was hilarious 😂 im in Suffolk near Norfolk definitely know and say cuppa, lass, chip butty, and faffin about but never heard of some of the others lol. Happy birthday for tomorrow Debbie

Happy Sunday from the UK, I live just outside of Yorkshire and we use most of these expressions and alot from nearby Durham, we also say Shotgun 😂

My family are from Liverpool and we use most of those expressions. We pronounce it as 'put wood in thole'. I call my little granddaughter 'mardy pants', if she gets moody.

Greetings from Leeds , Yorkshire. I just laughed my way through that video with you 🤣👍😘😘😘😘

Most of these are British slang not just Yorkshire lol

2 of my grandparents are from Yorkshire, 1 is from Lancashire and 1 was from Devon so I have heard a lot of Yorkshire slang over the years.

Hi the further up north you go the stronger the accent :) I'm new to your channel and loved your reactions to Peter kay misheard lyrics 😆

When a door made of wood is in the open position the empty dor frame is the hole and by shutting the door you put the wood in the hole.

You made me laugh so much when the lad said put wud int hoil 😂 another one is. It's tatters out there get thee coit on. Means it's very cold outside put your coat on. Anyway, si thi lata. Love from a true yorkshire lass of 67. ❤

I’m originally from Manchester which isn’t from Yorkshire but still in the North and we use a lot of the same phrases

In Bradford we preferred snicket to ginnel. The admonition about the door was likely to be an angry "oy, shuv't wood in't oil!" This made sense in a Yorkshire winter with a howling gale and no central heating.

Another great video, had me laughing so much lol. Happy birthday for Monday Debbie xx

Have a wonderful Birthday Debbie 🎂🍦💕

Happy birthday Debbie. In Natasha the spirit of the carry on films lives on. You may have to goggle that xxx

Strange as a Londoner living in SE Kent i would say most of the expressions we also use and those we dont we would certainly understand.

Yorkshire's a difficult language to master, even for us natives. I'm quite impressed you got as close as you did to the right answer, especially the chuddy - not tobacco, but half a point for chewing 👍 Put wood in't 'ole is simply explained - a doorway is a hole in the wall, doors are made of wood (well, they were until plastic doors became a thing). Simple 😁 Highly amusing stuff, keep up the good work, and 'appy birfday lass, 'ave a good 'un 🙂

Ladies you are great, and I love the relationship you have. Some years ago now a friend and I fell in love with each other, but circumstances meant that we couldn’t be together. She was engaged to her partner, and they had a child together who I also loved very much . We loved each other deeply, but we knew we couldn’t be together without hurting people. She couldn’t turn her daughters life upside down, and I could never have allowed her to do that. In the end we realised that we couldn’t see each other anymore, and we had to say our goodbyes if we were going to get over each other. She married her partner, but sadly it didn’t work out for them. 16 years later I still wonder what might have been in a world in which we could have been together, because I have never loved anyone else like I did her. We had a beautiful relationship as you guys seem to have, and I miss it still. Keep doing what you do, and lots of love from the uk xx

Here’s some good local ones for you - croggy jitty cob The second two especially are likely to cause debates around the country as to what the term should be

As other comments have said, there are many different accents within Yorkshire. I was born in Sheffield and there is a big difference between there and how people speak in Leeds or Barnsley. There is a book about the Sheffield dialect which you might be able to find although it's pretty rare. I've heard, not sure it's true, that the Sheffield accent is the oldest known form of English still spoken. I grew up using thee instead of you.

Hey lasses loved this video it was awesome and loved your 2 reaction to put wood int ole ive never heard this. We use the word butty, brew and cuppa in wales too.

Not quite sure he says they are Yorkshire phrases, I’m from Channel Islands, furtherest south of British Isles and these are common phrases in every day conversation

Put wood in hole... We all know where your minds were family friendly show or not, (yes it was very funny) My farther was a Yorkshireman and he took me there for the first time when I was about 14, I could not understand a word, mainly because of the thick accent AND the words they used. If it's accents you like, try Black Country, very similar to my own Brummie accent but much, much thicker and varies from town to town, for instance Wolverhampton and Dudley are just a few miles apart but the difference in accent is quite noticeable. Good vid again ladies, more please.👍

Great taste in earrings, there, Deb's. Glad one of ya made the effort. lol x

This is so funny! I'm from Yorkshire and my accent is really strong. I've got friends that live in Stow, Ohio, and I visit them often. When I do come over I'm always mindful of how I'm speaking. 😂😂😅

A film to watch set in Sheffield, is "The Full Monty" immerse yourselves in the South Yorkshire accent. For small town West Yorkshire try the long comedy series "Last of the Summer Wine" about a group of pensioners having fun adventures.