A SURVEY OF YORKSHIRE DIALECT ON THE INTERNET
compiled by Gerald England
based on an article published in the Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, 2002.
| Yorkshire Dialect Society "Unofficial site" | Part of a larger site known as David's Digital Domicile this has rather more information than the Pudsey site and appears to be updated more regularly. |
| Yorkshire and around |
This Pudsey-based site produced the first "official" YDS site in 1997. Recently updated
it still has a page devoted to the Yorkshire Dialect Society |
| Yorkshire Dialect | Barry Rawling's dialect site, hosted by the College of York St. John, contains a description of Yorkshire dialect and details of its historical development. Additionally, there are resource pages (providing bibliographies and useful archive links) for students and researchers of the dialect, including details of Orton's Survey of English Dialects. It was updated in January 2003 to include samples of dialect texts from the 19th to the 21st century including The Lyke Wake Dirge, On Ilkla Moor Baht'at and John Waddington-Feather's Wedding Blessing. |
| The Vikings |
This site includes The Yorkshire-Normandy Linguistic Connection an article by Barrie M. Rhodes and Arnaud Le Fèvre Yorkshire dialect words of Old Norse origin by Barrie Rhodes. |
| Teesspeak | The site is based around a survey whose purpose is to examine the dialect spoken in the Tees Valley and ascertain how it relates to the North Yorkshire Dialects to the south and the North Eastern Dialects to the north. It is constantly being updated as questionnaires are returned. The site also includes some articles discussing dialect and, perhaps of particular interest from the Yorkshire perspective, a discussion of the differences between the urban Teesside Dialect and rural Cleveland Dialect. |
| Genuki Yorkshire |
The Yorkshire Genealogy Site run by Colin Hinson and Angela Petyt
has a number of pages relating to dialect
including a copy of Yorkshire Folk Talk by the Rev. M. C. F. Morris, Vicar of Newton-on-Ouse, 1892. A glossary of old Yorkshire words compiled from a number of sources. Our Venacular about East Riding dialect, being chapter 8 of The British Workman by Rev. M. C. F. Morris, (OUP, 1928) |
| Computer Hyphenologist |
This site run by Dave Fawthrop of Shelf
includes etexts of various dialect publications
including Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) edited by F. W. Moorman. Dialect and Other Poems by Ben Preston, 1881 Yorkshire Ditties by John Hartley. |
| Greenhow | Malcolm Street's Greenhow village website includes extracts from T'ill an' T'Oade Uns upuv Greenho': An Account of the Traditions, Life and Work of The Old Lead Miners of Greenhow Hill in Yorkshire by Harald John Lexow Bruff (1920). |
| Yorkshire-Dialect.org | A site devoted to dialect verse. Run by Kevin Wilde and others from Wakefield U3A, as well as verse from contemporary writers, they also reproduce F.W. Moorman's Songs of the Ridings (1918) and poems by Thomas Blackah. |
| Zimmerzine | This ezine edited by Martin Grampound reproduces Euclid's Childer by Fred Brown. |
| Silsden.net | This site has a biography of Silsden dialect poet Edwin Bottomley (1924-97) and reproduces four of his poems. |
| Waddy's Web | John Waddington-Feather's site reproduces Come, Nivver Dee i' Thi Shell by William Wright. |
| Knaresborough OnLine | This Knaresborough site has a page with details of Arnold Kellett and his books including The Yorkshire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore and others. |
| NHI Review OnLine |
This site has reviews of dialect publications including Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 2001; 2002; 2004 Summer Bulletin ##45-48 Summer Bulletin ##49-51 Haworth Rhymes & Writings by Smith Midgley Yorksher Pride by Cathryn Elsey Yorkshire Dialect by John Waddington-Feather |
| Collect Britain | This British Library site in its English Accents and Dialects collection has 31 extracts from Yorkshire taken from the Survey of English Dialects and 29 taken from the Millennium Memory Bank archive. Each extract lasts between five and ten minutes. The four-minute sample — baking bread in Welwick — is the curator's choice. The other samples of Yorkshire speech can be found by browsing through the collection. |
| A new domain name has now been established at
http://www.geraldengland.org.uk/. Much of the work
presently found here will be transferred to the new site over the next few months.
The following sections will NOT be transferred:
|| Aabye's Baby || Arrabella the Arachnid || Harold Fred Shipman || Purple Patch Convention || Tameside on the Internet || Yorkshire Dialect || Zimmer-zine || It is expected that this site will close down around the end of 2005. |
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