How to Speak Yorkshire - For Yorkshire Day 

I'm from Yorkshire, why am I watching this XD

I'm an American who lived in Huddersfield for a year. Every time someone asked me if I was alright I'd respond "I'm fine thank you!" Now I feel like an idiot.

Was in Cyprus and saw 5 lads trying to push a taxi over shouting YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE. In the end he just ran em all over and they all just got up cheering. Proud x

I am from Russia and am currently writing a book. The events are happening in England and I had to pick a specific place where it all happens. I pointed at a random spot on the map. That random spot happened to be York, and now here I am, learning Yorkshire dialect and accent. I can understand you, Yorkshire folk, when you don't use unfamiliar words, but other times I'm so confused. It is like a new language to me! :D So thank you for enlightening. Such educational videos are interesting and very useful! Yorkshire is a very interesting place with beautiful accent and dialect! :)

Pops is from Leeds, I live in Maui. He recently passed. I just missed his voice so i popped over to this. Thanks.

im mexican married to an english yorkshire man and love the accent and yorkshire words alreyt love haha

I'm from Scunthorpe in north Lincolnshire.we speak very much the same but with a posher accent.we say tenny,or ten foot for a ginnel as it's ten foot wide.did you know a Yorkshireman has won a gold medal in every Olympic sport apart from one.under water swimming,as they can't keep their mouths shut long enough.😂🍺

I live in Cambridgeshire, but my grandad was from Leeds, I didn't realise I've been using Yorkshirisms all my life. Ow do lads 😊

I'm Italian and I understood 90% of what was said. I am very proud of myself 👍✨🇮🇹

In the North Riding, we don't say ay-up as a greeting, we say "now then" often shortned to just "now" or "naahh".... A greeting exchange would go something like: *Jack:* Nah then Fred, 'ow is't? (hello Fred, how are you? - lit: how is thee). *Fred:* Aye, just grand, an' 'ow's thee? (Yeah, good thanks, how're you?) *Jack:* Ahh, ah'm reet, it's t'uthers! (Ahh, I'm alright, it's everyone else that's wrong!) a common dark-humour Dales comeback that allows a cheerful greeting to become a complaint, which is a sure sign that a Dalesman is happy enough.

this is why i love being from yorkshire

I'm from Yorkshire why am I watching this

Yorkshire. Best blood'eh count'eh in't countr'eh! (That's right folks, better than all the other 47 counties in the UK which includes national beauty spots such as the Lake district, the Brecon beacons, the Highlands, Dartmoor, Snowdonia, Norfolk Broads, Black Country, the Welsh valleys, Cornish coast, the Cotswolds. Also better than Cardiff, Birmingham, Brighton, Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester, Durham, London, Bristol, Newcastle, Southampton etc.) If there's one thing that you can't say Yorkshireman have too much of.... it's modesty.

My Mothers family is from Yorkshire, loving 🥰 this lol 😂

Yorkshire man's motto Eat all, sup all, pay nowt, Hear all, see all, say nowt. And if ever tha does owt for nowt, Allus do it for thi sen. And, to cap it all, if it's not from Yorkshire it's shite.

I'm a dony boy so seeing tha do that I'm proud. Thart did a great job.

Love it. After living in North Yorkshire for a dozen years I have to get used to being back in the States.

A Brazilian here learning a Yorkshire accent...

I'm yorkshire proud

Yikes a Ginnel is a passage between two houses a snicket is a path with bushes and a hedge

the fact we still use "thou" and "thee" (though pronounced differently these days) is so cool

Please don't let it die out. Unfortunately many others the world over are choosing to speak Californian San Fernando Valley Uptalk. That is spreading all over due to American television and film, music etc. If you are not familiar with uptalk basically you put a question mark at the end of every sentence thus grown people talking like 13 year old girls from L.A. or even worst "Kim Kartrashians" and all her sisters very annoying.

I'm from the southern US, and all the debates about breadcake vs teacake reminds me of how we southerners debate about shopping cart vs buggy (what Brits call a trolley), and whether bless your heart is a disguised insult or genuine sympathy (can be either depending on context). I really enjoy hearing the Yorkshire dialect. These videos are good to help us understand the various Yorkshire words and slang. Steel City Man from Sheffield has some interesting videos, as does Harrison Fletcher from Rotherham. Thanks for posting!

Oreyt = Alright. Owt = Anything, these words are from old Norse, its clear just by looking at them they are Norwegian

Loved it lads dad's side of family are from Sheffield South Yorkshire

Cheers for this. Up at Headingley at the end of the month.. This lesson will definitely come in handy.

Auditioning for harold wilson in made in dagenham and needed to learn a yorkshire accent, thanks a ton

Chips wi bits for me. We say ginnel and snicket. I think one is between the houses and the other is a little shortcut. We drop our Hs and say ‘ows tha?’ And ‘me sen’. This is all old West Riding. My favourite word was laking as in playing or lecking as we’d pronounce it.

Love you guys!!!!

great job guys

When in doubt, say nowt. That was the guiding rule in Yorkshire during WWII. One of my friends with the RCAF was stationed in Tholethorpe.

growing up in rotherham i heard everyone pronounce it as jennel but when i worked at barnsley hospital they called it a ginnel but in rotherham we also said snicket. also called it a bread cake but stick some chips on it and its a chip buttie

It’s NOT bread cake it’s a TEACAKE 🤣👍🏻

Been living in Yorkshire for a few months. I notice you all cut off words but the statements still carry a full and robust context. For example I was taking a taxi from the train station and the driver said something like, "Had fun?" So I assume he was asking me "Did you go out of town and have fun?". I responded, "Yes. I went to Newcastle for the weekend. It was great." We continued the conversation for a few minutes.

Ey up friends!! 😁😁

Crazy how Middlesbrough is North Yorkshire, but also North-East specifically (Teeside). So our accents is a mixture, like i use them phrases, the thing between houses i call an alley way, the breadcake i call a bun for anything else unless it's wi chips then it's a chip butty. I say owt and now, but i rarely say ey-up, i say ey sometimes when i'm informally speaking, getting someone's attention. I say ai'ght/ight for greetings. But a difference in us is the words Work being Werk, Shirt being Shert, Dirt being Dert, Purple being Pairple/Perple. I struggle pronouncing the propa way if people tell me too. The Ck at the end can be a bit harsh, lil like Liverpool's but not as harsh. Sometimes i miss "the"out of sentences or "h" out of words like Ouses Houses, Arry Harry and so on.

Like all those words but my favourite is (mesen) my buddy and mesen are flooding Lancashire with it 😀

When's Yorkshire Day? I'd love to celebrate it wi some puddings and raising my Yorkshire flag

TinTinTin! ... Tiz! ...no Tint... Tintin? Nar TinTinTin T’ellin Yer.

Thank you. Brilliant! My mum brought us up to say ‘snicket’ - which part of Yorkshire uses snicket over ginnel?

I live in Doncaster but I never heard most of these. Maybe even if I did then I just didn't understand it, but I could understand these three guys just fine despite really strong accent which isn't really common

I'm from Sheffield and I call it a gennel

As a kid I recall both snicket and ginnel used in Wetherby. I sound all bland now, having lived in Toronto since aged 9. :)

This is amazing 😂

We used to call a 'ginnel' a 'twitchel'. I'm from from down south in 'Ertfordshire.

Im from The West Riding of Yorkshire then they buggerd up the county Ridings in the 1970s

omg prettiest dialect i.ve ever heard

I've hear both snicket and ginnel being used. I'm gonna disagree with breadcake. I know it as a teacake. I was born and brought up in Bradford and we called them scraps. I now live in Halifax where they call them bits (as in fish bits). Somebody said that Tom is from Bolton (he's definitely Yorkshire!). If you want the Bolton accent just listen to the late great Fred Dibnah!

My teachere is making us watch this in ELA rn 😻

We are from Yorkshire

In Dewsbury the breadcake is called a teacake.... and a teacake with fruit is a ... yes you got it ...a fruit teacake

snicket in Halifax

We always pronounce it ! Jennel ! And when my dad said " think on " … that meant " Beware "

I find it interesting that word like"Party " the Yorkies omitted there R

Ay up dook, how we go? Ay? What are you daft! Turn off the bloody lights, it's like damn Blackpool illuminations in here! My family from Sheffield, I know them all 😂

I'm an American who can (generally) pick up a Yorkshire accent if the speaker sounds like someone in the downstairs staff at Downton Abbey. But that's all I have to go on.

I already know Yorkshire because usually in school me and my classmates usually say "I didn't do nowt" and "you can't say nowt"

I'm about to move from the West Midlands to Yorkshire with my missus (she's a Yorkshire lass) and our two kids...this could be interesting 🤣

My child's English teacher sent me this video. 😊

Cheers to all my mates in Ponte

I need English subtitles, please!

Nar then this wa a reyt gud video thy need t mor

Think on means think about it...so my gran would say (if she was scolding me) 'think on'. I probably heard this a lot from her and if i was beginning to annoy her it would be 'yerl get me vexed'

It's a Snicket in Scarborough.

This is me such a Yorkshire lass

I always want to ask for scraps but never do as I think about blood pressure heart attacks ECT. From sunderland.

In Hull (East Yorkshire) they call em 10 foots...!!

An example for thee

I'm from south yorkshire and i pronounce ginnel with a "Guh" instead of a J sound, im from barnsley, do other places in South yorkshire say it differently?

You Brits and your insanely diverse regional accents!

You sound like you're from Manchester or Bolton and you're very much putting it on.

Barnsleys best yorkshire accent its the most broad and differant to rest! Baaarnsley born & Bred! a think ponti accents they elongate there letter "o" to "ow" so road is rowd or polo is powlow 🤣

Pat testing!!!😂

'Think on' no, no and thrice no. 'Nwa listen err, if tha dus that agin thall get a clip round thy ear--so think on'

No idea what part of Yorkshire these guys are meant to be from but as someone from leeds west yorkshire i have never heard anyone use the letter T so much. we lose it in words like matter or letter, its more a feeling then a letter when we pronounce it. we dont use our tongue to say 'T' and we dont use the typical yorkshire 't' as a word unless its an abbreviation of 'to the' so half of what they said didnt even make sense to me. the guy in the middle almost had the french 'R' going on as well which makes even less sense. because we drop that letter half the time as well. the accent varies by location but seeing as this channel has a lot of focus in leeds i dont really know what happened here.

It's a breadbun tom!

I agree with most but it's not a Breadcake it's a Teacake. And it's bits on your Fish and Chips not scraps.

hahaha "Pat Tested". 'kinell lads

Ee, lads. Appen ya wor in mi'ome town fer Yorksher day, all them year ago. Champion, by 'eck

ok, whats this bread cake thing? you said something about putting a mate on it, and then something else. I have no idea what those two things you put on there are. If it helps, I'm from the NY, US. Edit: so I just went to google turns out they are buns. Hope this helps someone else!

Bradford an proud

Ravenfield Bramley and sunnyside it’s a snicket

Wessies gi'in it all that. Gerragriponthisen! ;)

Which area of Yorkshire are these guys from? The Leeds accent sounds different.

How do they say in Yarkshire, Yerkshire, yorkshire ?.

I see that captions aren't available for this. I recon they just gave it up as a bad idea.

I was born and bred in Yorkshire i agree with that person why am i watching this

Isn't the word you pronounced the in Yorkshire?

Tha' s reight theear lad......deffo a breadcake tha knows.

That middle un is mi old English teacher i wa a rate laf

Don't forget about Setheying , e.g., a good Setheying, Setheying around, off for a Sethey

Ast thi gorra T-cacke a cud reyt do wi a chip buttie

Helps to be cute like a yorkshireman to pull it off

breadcakes is about 9 inches across, teacakes is about 6 inches, buns is about 4 inches. I Spen Valley onny ruad!

E Yorks represent!

0:58 I say Jennal (South Yorks)

We used to call em Alleys ... or Alley ways

I'm from Yorkshire, I don't say the L in alreet.

By’eck !

Bit difficult for me.. I'm from london gonna move to Yorkshire on next monday.. may be I need a private English teacher for this.. lol..