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The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary is a collection of over 4,000 words, tracking the development of regional language in Yorkshire.
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In west Yorkshire this was the name given in the nineteenth...
- Places
Most words in the dictionary are associated with a specific...
- Sources
A. C. Cawley, George Meriton’s A Yorkshire Dialogue (1683)...
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Use this page to submit new information to the dictionary,...
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The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary was compiled from his...
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Yorkshire Historical Dictionary. Words; Places; Sources;...
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Dates: When the word was used; generally, the date of the...
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Dates: When the word was used; generally, the date of the...
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- Tracking The Development of Regional Language
- Yorkshire Dictionary Development
- Changing Dialect Reflects Societal Shifts
- From Shoe Box to Published Document
- Yorkshire Dialectal Terms
The idea behind the Yorkshire Historical Dictionaryis that it tracks the development of regional language in Yorkshire and provides a useful reference guide for historians studying medieval manuscripts. The dictionary is also a fascinating reference for anyone interested in learning more about the dialect of this English county. Yorkshire has a poe...
The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary links each word or expression to a historical document dated from 1100 to 1750. The terms originate from many different industries and include words related to agriculture, farming, plants, animals, the Church, coal mining, specialist crafts, clothing and the textile industry. The Borthwick Institute for Archives...
When industries change over time, the words associated with those industries also change. Terms die out if they are no longer used and needed. The Yorkshire-born poet Ian McMillan and the self-styled ‘Bard of Barnsley’, who helped to publish the dictionary, said: “I’m always excited and keen to do anything to do with dialect. [These dictionaries] i...
Dr Redmonds had begun transcribing his collection of Yorkshire words to take them from postcard notes gathered in shoe boxes to a structured document ready for others to read. After his death in August 2018, the digital project began. Funded by the Marc Fitch Fund and managed by the Borthwick Institute for Archives, the work has now been published ...
The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary is full of interesting expressions and terms. Many of these will be recognised by people today, such as ‘ginnel’ and ‘brass’ while others will be obscure to the modern Yorkshire ear. Some Yorkshire dialectal terms included in the dictionary include: day gate – sunset ware – worse wrangwise – incorrectly reins – k...
Jan 17, 2019 · More than 4,000 words have been collated in a newly published dictionary of Yorkshire dialect terms. From abbeystead to yower - a term for a sheep's udder - it features words that were in use...
We thought it might be useful to have a Yorkshire dictionary for those not familiar with our language. It isn’t meant to be patronising – even our northern brethren across the Pennines in Lancashire need a translation guide to some of our words.
Yorkshire Dialect. Background. How did English happen? How do dialects differ? Yorkshire dialect – an explanation; Test your knowledge. Anglo Saxon place names; Viking place names; Word recognition; Dialect writing. Summer bulletin reprints; Christmas crackers; A whiff o’ t’ past; Bath Neet; Listen; Events; News; Store; Research. Dialect ...
Established in 1897, the Yorkshire Dialect Society is the world's oldest surviving dialect society. It grew out of a committee formed nearly three years earlier by Professor Joseph Wright, which was set up to collect additional Yorkshire material for the English Dialect Dictionary.
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Mar 25, 2018 · From chincough to quissing, Alexandra Medcalf tells Sarah Freeman why she is hard at work trawling the archives to compile a new dictionary of Yorkshire dialect.
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