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The patterns show up in comparisons between countries (such as Spain and Switzerland) and in comparisons between regions within countries (such as East Anglia and Yorkshire, or Iowa and Nevada), and they show up whether you look at snapshots in time or at trends that span decades.
A Mountain bike or a Hackney cab could be used to go to Cumberland for a sausage, passing through Barnsley for a chop with, of course, Yorkshire pudding .
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.
The Loyalists joined earlier settlers from New England, Pennsylvania, and Yorkshire, and French Acadians who had trickled back after their deportation during the Anglo-French wars.
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).