The Yorkshire Post

‘I hope Yorkshire dialect is taught like Welsh in schools,’ Campaign to get Yorkshire dialect recognised in schools

Alongside English and foreign language lessons, Yorkshire dialect could be on the school curriculum too if the oldest society of its kind in the world gets its way. Did you know with a Digital ...
Telegraph & Argus

Keeping Yorkshire dialect alive

These words, spoken by a ‘village dame’ entering a doctor’s waiting room, were penned in the latter half of the 19th century by author and collector of Yorkshire folklore Richard Blakeborough, who ...
The Guardian

‘Are we reyt?’: the course that aims to revive the Yorkshire dialect

The Guardian attends a session of the six-week course Let’s Talk Tyke! on a drizzly morning in Keighley “Mek thisen at ‘ome, lass,” says Rod Dimbleby, shortly after the Guardian arrives at his ...
The Press

Do you speak Yorkshire?

THE Gazette & Herald went in search of the origins of Yorkshire dialect. With the help of the Yorkshire Dialect Society's Dr Barrie Rhodes, reporter JAMES KILNER found remarkable similarities between ...
The Guardian

There’s more than one way to talk Yorkshire

Readers respond to a report about a course that aims to raise awareness of Yorkshire’s rich linguistic history I am puzzled as to how anyone can teach a West Riding version of the Yorkshire dialect ...