Just for the Americans amongst us - Translation of the Yorkshire language

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Our lass - term of endearment, wife, girlfriend, partner
Put wood in't ol - shut the door
Eat thee snap - eat your tea
Was thee born in a barn - shut the door
I'm reet nithered - I'm very cold
I'll go t' fut of our stairs - oh my goodness
Gi ova ya daft hapeth - stop being so daft and be serious
I'm chuffed t' bits - I'm pleased
Nar thun - hello, how are you, good morning
I'll si thee - goodbye
Wata - water
What can thee do when thar boots let wata in - sometimes you just have to suck up the bad luck life throws at you
Aye - yes
Bray - to hit someone
Butty - sandwich
Cake oil - mouth
Push iron - bicycle
Shut thee neck before I gob thee - be quiet please or I will hit you in the mouth
Tha makes a beta door than t'winda - your stood in the way of the TV
I can't see wood f' trees - I know it's obvious to everyone else but I still don't understand it
Mardy bum - describes someone who is sulking
Gi ova yer to cack handed - let me do it before you break it
Think on soft lad - take my advice

It's a long time remember
from January to December
So hear all, see all, say nowt,
Eat all, sup all, pay nowt
And if ever thy does owt fer nowt
Always do it fer th'sen.

AiY

[kiloran]

Or you could use this: http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/yorkshire-translator.asp
Though some of the translations might be from a less well known little corner of Yorkshire (Barnsley??)

--kiloran

[Thruppennybit]

So hear all, see all, say nowt,
Eat all, sup all, pay nowt
And if ever thy does owt fer nowt
Always do it fer th'sen.

There's a song about that...

https://david-boulton.co.uk/songs/hear- ... -say-nowt/

[gryffron]

And remember - You should never ask a man if he is from Yorkshire.
If he is, he will tell you within 30 seconds of meeting you.
If not, you don't want to embarrass him by forcing him to admit he is from some inferior part of the country.

[jfgw]

Or you could use this: http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/yorkshire-translator.asp
Though some of the translations might be from a less well known little corner of Yorkshire (Barnsley??)

--kiloran

"AAA" translates as "Aaeur".


Julian F. G. W.

[AsleepInYorkshire]

And remember - You should never ask a man if he is from Yorkshire.
If he is, he will tell you within 30 seconds of meeting you.
If not, you don't want to embarrass him by forcing him to admit he is from some inferior part of the country.

Aye lad ... eat thee snap

AiY

[Sutch]

Communicating in Yorkshire

1. INTITOT?

2. GUIZIT

3. SUMMATSUPEER

4. GERRITETTEN

5. SUPWITHY?

6. SMARRERWEEIM?

7. ASSEEGEENITER?

8. IAMPT GORRIT

9. EES GOOINTCAR

10. ASTHAGORRIT REET?

11. ISTHEMUM?

12. ASTHAGORRIT WITHI?

13. PURREMINEER

14. AYAMPTEARED NOWT

15. THALAFTER GERRA NEWUN

16. SHUT THIGOB

17. OWZEENO?

18. ABBERRITINTERS

19. IT DUNT MARRER

20. EESEZEEANTADIT

21. TINTINTIN

22. MIDDADZ GORRAJAG

23. WHEERS GAFFER?

24. EENOSE NOWT ABBAATIT

25. ARTAWREET?

26. LERRER GERROATBUS

27. ASTHA SEENIM ONTELLLY?

28. THAMUN GERRIT LERNT

29. EES GORRIS ATOAM

30. EESESITINTIS BURRABERRITIZ

31. SUMONEMS GORRAGERROFF

32. WEEV GORRA GERRUS IMBUX

33. CORLERUS ARPASTATE INTMORNIN

34. EES GUNNA GERRA LORRA LOLLY FORRIT

35. EEDURINT PURRISSEID UNDERWATTER

36. OOWURREEWEE WURREE WEEISSEN?

37. ATELDIM BURREWUNT LISSEN

38. LERRIM PURRIZATON

39. ASTLE CLOWTETHEE IF THADUNT GIOWER

40. GERRARRY TERGITHI ANDWEEIT

41. THAWANTSTER WESH THIEEROILS AHT

42. THAKANIFTHAWANNTS

43. EES NOBBUTA BABBI

44. TANTADNOWT DUNNATIT AS A NOSE ON

45. AHM POGD

[stewamax]

For laladonny's benefit, Yorkshire is a large English county where although most native inhabitants speak English, their patois is impenetrable. They have despised everyone outside Yorkshire as soft tree-hugging pinkos almost as long as the English have despised the French - about 1000 years.
Archetypal resident: Alderman Jabez Foodbotham, the 25-stone, iron-watch-chained, crag-visaged, grim-booted Lord Mayor of Bradford and perpetual chairman of the Bradford City Tramways and Fine Arts Committee (a creation of the late lamented Peter Simple)

[stewamax]

Laladonny may not have immediate access to back issues of the UK’s Daily Telegraph*, so it worth noting that Peter Simple himself was a wealthy Yorkshireman who lived at Simpleham [Hall] and was a prominent proselytizer of the opinions of the Feudal Times and Reactionary Herald, some of which he repeated enthusiastically (with attribution and little redaction) in his column.
One of Simple’s colleagues had the misfortune to be born in Leicester but would nevertheless assist regularly with anecdotes of the locally renowned Squire Haggard who shot peasants when in season, single-handedly kept the importers of vintage port afloat, most sensibly detested Whigs, Jacobites, Papists, Frenchmen, Scotchmen and Johnny Foreigner in general but regularly relished the exquisite pleasures of Joanne Foreigner.

* - by Yorkshire standards a left-leaning newspaper for which Peter Simple wrote a regular column

[NeilW]

Yorkshire is a large English county

Correction: The largest. Also known as "God's own".

[monabri]

I summarise..."Jeremy Clarkson."

[Lootman]

Yorkshire is a large English county

Correction: The largest. Also known as "God's own".

Technically isn't it North Yorkshire that is the largest, since Yorkshire has been broken up into North and South? Followed by Lincolnshire, then Devon?

In area of course. In terms of population Yorkshire is well down the list.

For Americans I think the closest analogy might be somewhere like Wyoming or Montana. Or Texas if you want to focus on the personality of its denizens.

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Yorkshire is a large English county

Correction: The largest. Also known as "God's own".

Technically isn't it North Yorkshire that is the largest, since Yorkshire has been broken up into North and South? Followed by Lincolnshire, then Devon?

In area of course. In terms of population Yorkshire is well down the list.

For Americans I think the closest analogy might be somewhere like Wyoming or Montana. Or Texas if you want to focus on the personality of its denizens.

Can I just clarify please - unless there's been a boundary shuffle last night there are four civil administrative zones within Yorkshire

1. North Yorkshire
2. West Yorkshire
3. East Riding of Yorkshire
4. South Yorkshire

Yorkshire is the largest county in England with the third largest population outside of London and (iirc) Birmingham with I believe a population in the order of 5.6m people.

It is also well known that the denizens of Yorkshire tell some of the best jokes in the world and are amongst some of the most generous too

AiY

[NeilW]

Technically isn't it North Yorkshire that is the largest

That's not a county. That's a Whitehall concoction from the late 20th century.

[Lootman]

Correction: The largest. Also known as "God's own".

Technically isn't it North Yorkshire that is the largest, since Yorkshire has been broken up into North and South? Followed by Lincolnshire, then Devon?

In area of course. In terms of population Yorkshire is well down the list.

For Americans I think the closest analogy might be somewhere like Wyoming or Montana. Or Texas if you want to focus on the personality of its denizens.

Can I just clarify please - unless there's been a boundary shuffle last night there are four civil administrative zones within Yorkshire

1. North Yorkshire
2. West Yorkshire
3. East Riding of Yorkshire
4. South Yorkshire

Yorkshire is the largest county in England with the third largest population outside of London and (iirc) Birmingham with I believe a population in the order of 5.6m people.

It is also well known that the denizens of Yorkshire tell some of the best jokes in the world and are amongst some of the most generous too

OK, fair enough, but is that legally four jurisdictions or one?

I would not dream of contesting your final assertion.

[NeilW]

[
Can I just clarify please - unless there's been a boundary shuffle last night there are four civil administrative zones within Yorkshire

There are

West Riding

East Riding

North Riding

The Ainsty of York

And anybody who says different is a soft southern jessie.

[TUK020]

For Americans I think the closest analogy might be somewhere like Wyoming or Montana. Or Texas if you want to focus on the personality of its denizens.

They play cricket in Texas?

[Lootman]

For Americans I think the closest analogy might be somewhere like Wyoming or Montana. Or Texas if you want to focus on the personality of its denizens.

They play cricket in Texas?

Rounders.

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Technically isn't it North Yorkshire that is the largest, since Yorkshire has been broken up into North and South? Followed by Lincolnshire, then Devon?

In area of course. In terms of population Yorkshire is well down the list.

For Americans I think the closest analogy might be somewhere like Wyoming or Montana. Or Texas if you want to focus on the personality of its denizens.

Can I just clarify please - unless there's been a boundary shuffle last night there are four civil administrative zones within Yorkshire

1. North Yorkshire
2. West Yorkshire
3. East Riding of Yorkshire
4. South Yorkshire

Yorkshire is the largest county in England with the third largest population outside of London and (iirc) Birmingham with I believe a population in the order of 5.6m people.

It is also well known that the denizens of Yorkshire tell some of the best jokes in the world and are amongst some of the most generous too

OK, fair enough, but is that legally four jurisdictions or one?

I would not dream of contesting your final assertion.

Yorkshire is the county. The smaller are administrative zones. In 1974 central government removed the "ridings" and the East Riding became Humberside. We would have declared war at that time but were knee deep in the Cod War and also refurbing the pub. Both of which were long overdue. I can't recall when, as (luck would have it) I've slept since then but central government eventually got tired of the complaints from the population of "Humberside" and reinstated the original name of "East Riding of Yorkshire".

At the same time they arranged for our charisma and sense of humour to be reinstated too. Again this was fortunate as we had just completed the refurb of our pub and it was now necessary to drink there at night time too. I'm informed that we won the Cod war and promptly sold out to the EU.

Eeee ... what can thee do when thee boots let wata in

AiY

[tjh290633]

Yorkshire is the county. The smaller are administrative zones. In 1974 central government removed the "ridings" and the East Riding became Humberside. We would have declared war at that time but were knee deep in the Cod War and also refurbing the pub. Both of which were long overdue. I can't recall when, as (luck would have it) I've slept since then but central government eventually got tired of the complaints from the population of "Humberside" and reinstated the original name of "East Riding of Yorkshire".

Yer what? There niver were an East Riding, that were a book wot got televised.

TJH (Barnsley by marriage)