The 'purest' Yorkshire is that from the County Town, York and apart from the glottal stop which changes I to ar, is very similar to Hull. The micro-variations in villages and smaller groups are the natural variations as language evolves further from the source. To the North east of York, the blend changes to the more Dane based Geordie twang from Boro upwards. To the West of York, the accent picks up more of it's norms from Lancashire and it's Welsh/scots origins. As you go south, the Derbyshire/Nottingshamshire influence heard in Sheffield, is stronger. The sterotypical Yorkshire accent used in comedy sketches tends to be Barnsley village area and is possibly the most corrupted from the more pure originals.
Oh of course, geographic location has alot to do with accents. The theory of ELA depends on a controlled environment.
I'm working in the Barnsley area and if that's the most intelligent!! I feel like I'm in a Ripping Yarns sketch most of the time. Flat caps and whippets everywhere- It'll be reet.
I think that's probably right. That's where the main Viking influence would come from, along that East Coast and the capital city of Jorvik. Although changing nine to naan isn't a glottal stop (that's "bu'er" instead of "butter"), it's simply making the vowel (or diphthong) more open to make it easier to pronounce. Not a Germanic feature. If you did put a glottal stop in every time you pronounced 'ai'/'aa', you'd sound like you were talking Arabic!
I'm not sure why they need a vote, I would have thought it obvious that the most intelligent people would have the most intelligent accent.
Isn't a lot of old Yorkshire slang actually almost identical to the old Norse/Danish, I can't think of any words off hand. I'm sure I read an article about it on the internet a few years ago.
Cheers for that on the glottals, your answer sounds more complete than what I put. That'll teach me to check before I post instead of working from memory. I'll have to have another look up of it all as it's a while since I read about it.
It's odd that, I'd have said I sound more like mi dad than mi mam. But I may have to have a think about it. Mam's from Garforth and Dad from Horsfroth but I definitely sound like a west Leeds lad, got a tiny bit of a Bradford twang in there somewhere but I couldn't identify where.
ive also thought it would be such fun to get a room full of many and varied broad accents. ie.scotsman, welshman, irishman, yorkieman, manc, scouser, cockney, north east-ener.
You should have gone to university. It's like a bloody Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman joke half the time.
