I can honestly say from my personal experience of 1, yes. I no longer talk with an ‘uddersfax’ accent.
Simply answer is no it’s not. Lot’s of people still speak with a Yorkshire dialect even the younger ones. I just think it depends on where you are from. There’s a huge difference of dialect within Yorkshire. Those from the South Yorkshire are different from North and West but similar to East.
You can usually tell where they are from in Yorkshire by asking them to say door, water, baby, there, told, mum or ginnel.
It would be a blessing. I switch off any and every sound of t Yorkshire. Also American female and Polish.
People from parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire used to say “tha” for “you”, a nice old word from “thou” that you could still hear in old films from the 60s, such as Kes “tha’ll be late”. It’s sad how even this really interesting word seems to be all but dead now.
It’s not dying out. My thick Leeds accent is alive and well.
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I can honestly say from my personal experience of 1, yes. I no longer talk with an ‘uddersfax’ accent.
Simply answer is no it’s not. Lot’s of people still speak with a Yorkshire dialect even the younger ones. I just think it depends on where you are from. There’s a huge difference of dialect within Yorkshire. Those from the South Yorkshire are different from North and West but similar to East.
You can usually tell where they are from in Yorkshire by asking them to say door, water, baby, there, told, mum or ginnel.
It would be a blessing. I switch off any and every sound of t Yorkshire. Also American female and Polish.
People from parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire used to say “tha” for “you”, a nice old word from “thou” that you could still hear in old films from the 60s, such as Kes “tha’ll be late”. It’s sad how even this really interesting word seems to be all but dead now.
It’s not dying out. My thick Leeds accent is alive and well.