Think you know your 'Ey up' from you 'Nah then'? Yorkshire is famous not just for it's rolling hills, historic towns and strong cups of brew - it is also loved for it's distinctive dialect which has ...

Yorkshire dialect expert Dr Barrie Rhodes tells us about the fate of dialects and why we speak like we do. He also recites a poem for us. Grace Shaw talks to Dr Barrie M Rhodes, published linguist and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across Yorkshire, we have some weird and wonderful words we use in everyday conversation, but some bits of Yorkshire dialect are a ...

When was the last time you wore a raddy-doo? What about a bicker-bock? The answer to the first question probably depends on how fashionable you are, because in the traditional Holderness dialect, a ...

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When is a door a 'dower' or a 'deer'? That depends whether you're in Bilsdale or Helmsley according to Paul, Eva and Doreen, three of the people we talked to for BBC Voices. Paul is a member of the ...