That this House is concerned at the recently published research indicating that words are disappearing from the Yorkshire dialect because of the influence of the internet, social mobility and globalisation; and furthermore supports the work of the Yorkshire Dialect Society in continuing to promote what is, after all, the best English regional accent in the world.Bloody northern monkeys!*
* Said with the same amount of love present as when I get called a "suthen nancy"
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The beauty of English is its flexibility. Not for us an Institute Anglaise, please.
I think the biggest influence on accents is probably Eastenders.
The most glorious thing about the internet is that although language will continue to grow and develop in English - as it has from time immemorial. However now although people may not speak certain dialects anymore, or in the case of Cornish, whole languages but the internet will have records of them there forever.
This is why I am so against the Welsh language board - if a language is going to die let it die. Don't waste tax payers money on keeping it artificially alive.
Ed, you slaaaag! Gerroutamypuuub!
What about the loss of jobs in the Yorkshire Puddings Mines?
Just how can the internet be blamed for words disappearing? I still use words such as thrawl, mash and mardy which I learnt growing up in Leicester. I have lived in Reading for the last eighteen years and that hasn't stopped me. Not reading those words on the internet hasn't stopped me. In fact my two children who were born in Reading also use these words.
If you speak yorkshire does it mean that you don't use all those thrilling racist and sexist words that ordinary folk use at home.
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