On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:15:27 +0000, "Darren Burnhill" <darrenburnhill@hotmail.com> wrote: |Hi, | |> There never was and never will be grammar or dictionaries for Yorkshire |> dialect, | |Forgive me for pointing you toward things you already know; | |There are a few others (A grammar of the dialect of Windhill by Joseph |Wright, etc.), but Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire by |Richard Blakeborough is probably right up your street as it contains a |substantial glossary. As I explained, but you snipped there are massive differences between the dialects of the three Ridings. :-( not to mention the changes with time. I would not consider any of the existing glossaries definitive. I generally use Kellett's The Yorkshire Dictionary. |I do have a (reprint) copy that I will get round to |OCRing, but i'm working my way through the 'Old Yorkshire' series first. |Meanwhile there are a few copies in the Bradford system; |http://www.biskit.yorks.com/ Great, let me know what else you are considering doing, so we do not start the same things. I have almost finished Ben Preston's "Dialect and other poems". I have partially done Yorksher Puddin' by John Hartley, Yorkshire Folk Talk, By Morris harvested from http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Books/FolkTalk/ I hope eventually to do all John Hartley's work, but I doubt I will ever finish it. |>From sunny Shipley ;) From windy Shelf ;-) -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> 17,000 free e-books at Project Gutenberg! http://www.gutenberg.net For Yorkshire Dialect go to www.hyphenologist.co.uk/songs/