10 words you only hear in the NORTH of England
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Here we go with 10 proper northern words & phrases!
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How did Tom avoid saying " ye don't get owt fer nowt "
Up North, we say "I'm goin' to t'shop", not "I'm going t'ut shop"
There are also such phrases as "put t'wood i' t'oil!" (Yorks) "put th'wood i' th'oil!" (Lancs) - to close the door; "shintin" - "she isn't in"; "'t in't in t'tin" - "it isn't in the tin" and my Mother's favourite was always "shurrup!" - "be quiet".
The t' (t + apostrophe) is pronounced as a glottal stop, such as in the Southern pronunciation of "bottle"
In Scotland if you are out walking and you meet someone you don't know , and no one else is about , you just say " Aye" to them as you pass and they'll probably say it back - and all will be right with the world!
You also need to add a little nod/waggle of the head as you say , "aye" .
As an ESL Private Tutor do all of you realize how much we MUST know and understand for a correct knowledge sharing??? That's why after more than 40 years teaching, I keep on learning every single day. Thanks for sharing 😃 warm greetings from Veracruz Mexico.
Thanks for sharing!
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish it's been my passion since 42 years ago: sharing knowledge for a better world. Love you Teacher Tom.
My dad was a southerner but I grew up in the north. At school it was called dinner and was always a hot meal but at home it was called lunch and was always something cold like a sandwich. this meant that I had breakfast, dinner and then dinner.
I think I'm an American who has perhaps watched too many UK TV shows over my lifetime because I understand all this. "How do?" is also an old American Southern expression. Seeing as how the American South was originally settled by mainly Northern British people, it makes sense. You'll hear older Americans who were young during and right after WWII who are still alive use it at times. When you're talking about "Tea", do you have to distinguish it from "Tea Time" specifically or does everyone just go on time of day in a conversation?
Generally not a problem because you don't take 'afternoon tea' in the north!
For meals name we have the same shift in French : in Paris and in standard French it is: « petit-déjeuner / déjeuner / dîner » but in Province and in the other countries ( Belgium, Switzerland or Canada) it is : « déjeuner / dîner /souper ».if a parisian invites you for « dîner » never go at noon but in the evening.
It's basically a rural/urban divide, I suppose. Farmers eat their main meal in the middle of the day.
I'm from Yorkshire, one phrase I hear quite a lot particularly among older people is "ee by 'eck" or "ee by gum"
Mither is a word just used in the north. It means to pester or if something was a mither, it was a lot of fuss.
Great word!
That's a great word! Thanks Ness for sharing with us : )
More specific to Lancashire? Great word though.
@@djverre455 I'm in Cheshire, it's used here a lot too
I can confirm that differences between Liverpool and Manchester are massive. I used to live in Manchester, and when I travelled to Liverpool, it was a surreal experience not being able to understand Scousers (people from Liverpool). I also lived in Edinburgh (Scotland) and although there are various new words like aye, nay etc. It was much easier to understand them. The same applies to Glasgow & Newcastle.
Scouse accent is the most difficult to understand.
Cheers Daniel Great info!
Last season of the GBBO is airing in my country (Netherlands) at this moment and there’s this Scouse lady in it. I’m having some real difficulties understanding her without subtitles lol. I usually don’t have such difficulty with understanding, even Scottish I can understand quite well (I used have a Glaswegian colleague for a while, plus I ‘trained’ a bit binge watching Outlander lol). I also watched the series Time with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. I noticed Sean Bean with his Sheffield accent is way easier to understand than Stephen Graham with his Scouse accent. I do enjoy listening to it though.
You're all of irish descent lol not too dissimilar 😂
to me Manchester and Liverpool are the midlands, im in durham...but i know if i were in berwick id be a southerner...
When I was studying in Durham, my host mum used to call me “pet” all the time!
Summat usually refers to something
Priceless. Thank you, Tom!
My pleasure Viviana!
Interesting and entertaining, Tom!😊 Greetings from Sweden🇸🇪
Nice one Juana! Glad you enjoyed it : )
Super useful video, thanks!
American here. On my first visit to England, I went to a party in Northern England. Went to the party just a few hours after arriving in the country. Had a few pints, had a good buzz on, met an older gentleman (grandfather of the birthday girl), and he struck up a conversation. I understood about 2 percent of what he was saying. At one point, I thought he was just intentionally messing me because he knew I was American. Turns out, he was from Newcastle; his grandchildren told me that even they have a difficult time understanding him because of his accent. That made me feel slightly better.
I love your videos Tom! I would love to know more about the north
Yorkshuh': me sen, thee sen, tha's sen, mithering, baht, reet, loppy, mizzling, gumption, noddle 'use your noddle (head)' etc.
Sadly slowly dying out and being replaced by awful, generic Gen Y accentless standard (slightly posh) English punctuated by too many 'like's, which I can only assume is a US import as they say it a lot on the West Coast.
More power to the local/regional British accent/dialect! Don't let them die out!
Cheers for the great set of words mate!
I’m frm Yorkshire but being 17 a lot of me mates also from Yorkshire don’t understand what I’m saying because of how the accent is dying. Is very sad
My favourite word from the North is "gurt" & my favourite idiomatic phrase is "I think nowt to [whatever]". Love your channel!
Thanks for that Starry Wizdom : )
Gert is a Bristolian/West Country word, I’ve never heard it used in the north!
Great video- Brazil
Make a video about the Irish accent plzzz
Im currently living in Lancaster which is north west the accent here is just like the one you demonstrate 😮
Hell yeah Lancaster gang rise up
I’m a big Anglophile and love the Yorkshire accent (eg Fiona Hill, Mel B). I’ve heard it’s looked down upon though. Mick Ronson was from Hull and had quite a distinctive accent too. I recall speakers from the Lake District being virtually incomprehensible! Great videos, thanks man!
I think Fiona Hill is from the North East. I don't recognise her accent as a Yorkshire one....🙂
Cheers Tobin, really glad you enjoyed the video and love the accents here : )
Fiona Hill is from Durham which is between Scotland and Newcastle, definitely not Yorkshire but she will definitely share a few characteristics with us in Yorkshire. In England there is essentially two main accent groups. North and South. The midlands is its own group but has more in common with the north. The north is split by county and town, the south is a bit more generic. Notable major Southern exceptions being Cockney and the West Country. Mel B is from Leeds, West Yorkshire so for me from Sheffield, South Yorkshire is instantly recognisable as being from West Yorkshire. You are forgiven for labelling her as generic ‘Yorkshire’ but labelling someone from Durham as Yorkshire is not acceptable. She’s essentially a wildling. Or Freefolk to be PC. 😀
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish Great video by the way. Almost (TBH can still tell you’re a southerner) spot on Northern accents and the reverence you have for different accents is very refreshing. Much love from Sheffield. Tha’s not a complete daft ‘un thee pal.
It can be looked down upon as a sign of low intelligence in the south, which obviously is a load of bollocks. The stigma is becoming less and less though - I can't imagine having a northerner read out the news fifty years ago!
Pot o’ tea instead of cup of tea sometimes phrased around Bradford area & probably elsewhere in the north
Just bought the Kindle version of A Really British Guide . . . Thanks for writing it. BTW, I never thought about "owt" but I grew up hearing my Gran say "nowt" for nothing.
Awesome! Happy reading Daniel ☺️
Hello, thanks for the video! Hello from Moscow!
Blody best shot evar mate!
Glad you enjoyed it mate!
“I’m gannin yem” meaning going home in Geordie.
Would you do a particular northern Accent?
5:09 in AmE we have lunch, supper and dinner which are kind of confusing. Lunch always means midday, but to some people dinner is lunch and not supper. Supper is never lunch but could be dinner. Clear as mud?
In North Yorkshire we tend to say now then when we greet someone
My mate from Manchester says they greet each saying "you alright?"
I also like the way they call brothers or sisters, it's "our kid"
More like R'Kid not "our kid".
@@harag9 apparently
We say the first one in Yorkshire too but it’s pronounced more like “yallreyt” or “yallreet” following a word like love/sweetheart/cock(er)/duck/flower and a bunch of others some of which are different depending on which city/town you’re from in Yorkshire.
For example if you bumped into someone you knew in the street you’d greet them with “yallreyt duck?” but we greet strangers with the same petnames too.
Same in Liverpool. A perfectly acceptable conversation can go something like this:
"Alright lad"
"Alright"
"Ya alright?"
"Yeah lad, sound. You?"
"Yeah sound. How's your brother getting on?"
"Alright, yeah".
How about pikelets vs crumpets?
Can you make a video about the accent of nottingham?
Ayup is really just Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, you wouldn't hear someone from Manchester or Liverpool saying, Ayup or a Geordie, maybe some people from these areas can correct me if I'm wrong. In Nottingham we say, Ayup me duck! English in England is so interesting, how everyone speaks differently, and they can be just 30 mins apart. Great video though and super helpful.
*Allus _ Always
*Brass _ Money 💰
*Brew _ Cup of tea ☕
we pronounce owt and nowt like oat and note, ay up me duck from Derbyshire
Alreyt kidda
@@TheExtremeLead orate mucker how ya diddling
Derbyshire talks more like Yorkshireman than people from the Midlands
It would be great to see an illustration of the different Scottish accents and dialects. Scottish is often wrongly considered as homogenous.
Owt and nowt are just aught an naught, which you get all the time in old poetry and whatnot
Diner and tea. They do the same in Norwich.It used to confuse me.
My arguments with southerners usually hinge on 'School dinners' and 'Dinner Ladies'!
The Royal Navy, at least in the 18th and 19th centuries, had Dinner at 12 noon and Supper at 4pm. Interestingly, both words have roots in old French.
Is there any rule to when they drop their indirect & direct objects ("a" & "the")? Sometimes i hear it and other times its dropped.
0:40 England is a small country.
Me from Portugal: we are miniscule
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Do they say: 'Put wood in t'ole, was that born in a barn?' ?
Or: 'it's cracking the flags'?
"It's cracking t'flags" you do hear, meaning the weather is *very* hot, i.e. it's so hot, the paving slabs are breaking.
@@vilebrequin6923 I wouldn’t have guessed the meaning of that one! That’s great
"Aye" (yes) and "nay" (no) are also used in British parliament during a referendum vote.
❤Love the North
Pal is another word for Marra.
Aye, some o'ye think t'North starts@Watford.
Away lad! Brum's in t'deep Sooth.
Cumbria sez "How do?" & "What fettle?"
Mardi's nut frae Cummerland!
Brekfast - Dinner - Tea. Nee Supper. Nee Brunch.
So's a Sarney.
Aye, Ah'll giv him a coat o' lyukin at.
The north east can be more tricky to understand. I’m from St.Helens Town, myself.
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Love this. I could not understand a word when I first touched ground in Donny... :D But I had a very peculiar method to hone the Yorkshire accent. It only took 1 month. Seriously, 1 month. Wanna hear about it?
Ey up, lad! It's nesh in 'ere 'cos it's bloody brass monkeys outside, 'ckin' 'ell!. What cha been up ta? Stop faffin' about! Ya sittin' on yer lugs, eh?! Stop bein' gobby, jus' pack i' up, put t' wood int' 'ole, and don't be soddin' mardy, aye?! Smashin'!
Gerrout o’ t’ road, tha weren’t made in St. Helens!
Also - ‘Newt’ - meaning No. Ewt - meaning, Do you want anything?
But in fact I had already heard this 'aye' ...😂😂😂 ...
They use to say hallo that way...😂
It’ll either rain or go dark before nightfall.
Great video mate. Right, so aye is pronounced /ei/ in aye up but aye is also pronounced /ai/ when meaning yes? Did I get it right? Haha
Aye up is pronounced ‘Ay’ up but Aye (yes) is pronounced like the word ‘Eye’ as in what you look out of. Think of a sailer saying ‘aye aye captain’ to mean ‘yes captain’ and the Houses of Parliament, to this day, having a count on a vote of ‘the aye’s and the no’s’.
How Do sounds very similar to How do you do ?
Yeah except that the stress for 'How do' goes on the 'do' and you drop the /h/ : ) It's also much more informal than 'How do you do?'
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish Thanks for telling me about that Tom
I didn’t know that before
“What the bloody hell” at 0:32 has me in fits - we do all say it up north 😂 ‘What the bloody is that supposed to mean?!!’ 😭😂
Edit - just finished your video and am now craving a can of coke and a chip buttie😩
Do one?
Nice! I feel like we use that in London and the south too though but perhaps it originated in the north.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish heard it on Emmerdale. So I realised that the teaching from ER would not work in Yorkshire
Sheffieldish. Mash tea, not brew. Sylin dahn, raining heavily (related to sieve in Norse). In't steelwoks we mek neefs, in the steel works we make knives. Finally we call everyone luv, this can get men into trouble in other parts of the world especially if to recipient is female. With the advent of radio and tv since the 50's many of these words are no longer used as they are seen by southerners as uneducated. It strikes me as strange that educated southerners will applaud the preservation of a language used by the last 50 speakers in outer patagonia but put down the languages (not dialects) of the north.
owt = aught
You might not belive but we do use "Aye" here in sudan 😅😆
"Ay oop me owd duck, orr roight! 'Ow yer doin'?" "Ent sa bad. You?" Where's that from? "Carrnt be doin' wi' it me."
didn't know that Roger Federer is teaching English now XD
Dafoe?!
Have you ever heard anyone say "anyroad"?
Y'can stuff yer Emmered Ale marra!
Ee bi gum
Funny
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Actually, it is 'Ey Up, not Aye Up! Aye means yes - Hey means hello. Obviously, we drop the H...
Wrong. Brew means Tea or Coffee.
So now we know thats where HS2 stops 😂
why all these weird words are from germanic origin?
Anyone who has watched Corronation Street would get all of these. I've used most, if not all of them. Watching Traffic Cops you get to hear a lot of Yorkshire dialect.
Opposite if "Owt" is "Nowt".
Liverpudlian is almost as difficult as Glaswegian.
T'ut 😂
Jus goin t’toilet
He is a handsome ^_^ content creator thanks a lot my youthful friend
‘Pack it in’, Tom, tha dunt need no disclaimer
Stop it Thomas, you do not need a disclaimer
I have seen patronising videos regarding the North and English dialects on CZcams from ESL tutors of RP and they deservedly get booed of the stage. Tom’s presentations are not patronising at all and show skill and importantly an infectious enthusiasm for the English language, including its quirks and foibles.
I was raised/educated in Castleford/Leeds in West Yorkshire. I’m now living in Germany and raising my daughter bilingual… German and Yorkshire. Here are a few examples of her dialect…
A Tyke - A Yorkshire person. “I’m/Daddy’s a Tyke”
Katie, sling ye uk. - “Katie, go away”
Thes nowt so queer as folk - “Mummy’s behaving in a strange way.”
Waint - will not/won’t - “I/he/she will not…”
Tarra, luv - ‘bye. “Bye”
Spanish - liquorice. “Why do they put Spanish in haribo?”
Snap - Packed lunch. “I’ve made your snap, Katie”
To lake (out) - to play. “Are you going out (leaving the house) with your friends to play”
Narky - moody. “She’s a bit narky, again”
n.b. Mardy is a South Yorkshire/Derbyshire adjective. In West Yorkshire we would say sb’s narky.
Owt - anything
Nowt - nothing
Summat - something
Alles - everything
Bloody love this comment! Thank you for the kind words AND for the fantastic A-Z of northern vocab. Ta Familie Cole!
Maungy/Morngy is also used in West Yorkshire for someone who is whingeing a lot :)
Oh, they say pal in the North?
Do British people use phrases like for ya instead of for you and words like gonna and i’ma?
We say 'for ya/yer' and 'gonna' but imma isn't very common. I think I'm more likely to say something like, ' 'm g'na '.
@@Emmet_Moore I think that imma is from America..
Anyway. Thanks 😊
For ya, ‘for ye’ is used more colloquially.
Gonna is used all over the U.K. and Ireland.
Imma is not used at all. More ‘I’m gonna’.
honestly hate when people from manchester say they are northerners..... to me the middle of the uk as in the area thats in the middle is the midlands... kind of obvious.. manchester is northern midlands... yorkshire is what it says it is... then county durham and northumberland are the north....