Andy
Happy Yorkshire Day :)

August 1st is Yorkshire Day. This is a video of Yorkshire's anthem sung in local dialect :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtrdqTKBNA

 

And a video showing the beauty of this, the largest county of England.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-nH3DN-ubE

Aug 1, 2015 9:39 AM
Comments · 4

@Dan Smith, I'm not aware of anybody having "one or t'other" as a catchphrase but it's definitely a commonly used phrase around these parts, as is "it's ne'er (neither) one thing nor t'other"

August 2, 2015

@Learner SC, haha he's always been a smooth talker.

August 2, 2015

Here's a little mystery... I grew up in a suburb of New York City, my parent traced their ancestry back to Ellis Island, and as far as I know there wasn't a trace of anything British in our family... and yet... they always used the phrase "one or t'other." And nobody else I've known ever did. Alas, they are no longer alive so I can't ask them about it. I wonder if there were any popular radio comedy stars who used that phrase, or anything like that?

At summer camp, "On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at" was part of the repertoire of campfire songs, but not one of our favorites because none of us knew the words or what they meant... any more than we understood "Ach, Du Lieber Augustin" or "Alouette, Gentille Alouette." And I had no idea it was inYorkshire dialect, because nobody ever bothered to mention it and none of us ever asked.

August 2, 2015

Nice stuff. I was up there at Ilkley few weeks back at that notoriously expensive teashop :-)

 

Here's one of Yorkshire's icons.

 

https://youtu.be/50qT3lbDpVA

 

"He's bowling rubbish. He's bowling like my Auntie Annie when she's had too much sherry to drink" Great stuff.

August 1, 2015