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How well do you speak Yorkshire? Take our Yorkshire Day quiz to find out

Sat 1 Aug

We reckon he'd get everyone right. And the chap on the right too. Photograph © TJ Blackwell via Wikimedia Commons

Sat 1 Aug 2015  @ 7:23pm
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News, Quiz

As everyone who lives here knows, Yorkshire is really its own country, with separate traditions, its own flag – and a language all of its own.

Terry Deary has set us a York Horrible Histories quiz. How many can you answer?

But how well do you speak it? Try our quiz to find out.

Below are 13 words or expressions in Yorkshire dialect. But what do they mean in the Queen’s English?


Sources

The Dialect Dictionary

British Slang

How To Talk Like A Local by Susie Dent


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