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Example sentences for: yorkshire

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An Austrian lady of my acquaintance was interned in Yorkshire during the Second World War.
The use of v instead of f (It's a vine day) is almost enough on its own to indicate a speaker from southwest England; repeated t in place of the (It's in t' house) suggests a Yorkshire dialect; the use of e instead of a indicates a South African speaker (Shell I give you e hend); a long drawn-out aw rather than a shorter o suggests a southern US speaker (He's gawn fishin' with his dawg).
My Yorkshire friend looked inquiringly into my face.
Halifax (West Yorkshire) does not mean holy hair, traditionally referring to some martyred maiden, but probably nook of land with coarse grass, the first part of the name representing Old English halh (related to modern hole and hollow ), and the hair in this case being long, straggly grass.
You spread jelly on bread, like that piece of bread the English call by the misnomer Yorkshire pudding.