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I love all of the different dialects and terminology. It would be boring if we all sounded the same.

There was a time when gay meant happy and pants were something you wore.

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In fact I always call my mother 'Mam' - I really only slip back into my true Yorkshire tongue when I am with family or close friends. If I did it at work, I suppose I would not be understood.

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Some of us native Yorkshire folk still do use thee and thou (pronounced tha)

`appen,I`ll si thee`

`thas reet there`

Not prying but what part of Yorkshire? When I worked /fished up there there were so many dialects/phrases. From the Dearne valley,to Todmorden,taking in Hull and Catterick.

My `patch` as a lowly civil servant was Yorks and Humberside and fishing was mostly the Wharfe,Ouse and Swale

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'appen tha will OG - West Yorkshire - on the Calder . I remember when I returned home to my village one time and went to the local Chinese takeaway, someone said to me:

'Tha's not from round here is tha?' because I had started to modify my accent so all the overseas docs could understand me. I had to smile.

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I have lived in Cumbria for 39yrs and people say you have not lost your accent. I do not want to, I am a born and bred Lancastrian and have the lingo to go with it and I am proud of it. I love tinternet.
Should'nt the war of the roses still be going on?
People have said that I sound just like Fred Dibnah, wrong, he sounded like me.
ps,
I do not like drivers who park on the pavement making pedestrians walk in the road.

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Red, the sign of true blood.
White the sign of weakness.

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Kings of England
Henry VI (Lancastrian)
Edward IV (Yorkist)
Edward V (Yorkist)
Richard III (Yorkist)

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You missed out Henry IV and Henry V.
Who won the war of the roses?
Which rose became the Rose of England.? Answer:-The Tudor Rose with the Red of Lancaster encircling ( controlling)the White of Yorkshire.

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Bloody Tescos car parks . . . why is it every stupid unskilled driver in the UK uses them . . . cars going up, cars going down . . . and all the wrong bloody way . . . from now on I shall move to avoid nobody . . . the Jeep weighs 2 ton and is built like a tank . . anyone hitting it will be worse off than me . . . I've got a steel girder for a front bumper and steel girder steps on each side . . . . soddem all . . . . gerroutta the way ya pelican.