tis grand to hear a song in the old dialect, you can hear the old Germanic and and Danish, Yorkshire and Lancashire retaining the historical vocabulary well, taa lad, its a grand listen
What I find very interesting about this tune is the similarities between Yorkshire English and German! I'm not from Yorkshire, but on my mother's side of the family all of the Englishmen were from Yorkshire and Lancashire. I also live in a place named after York, or as the Norsemen we hail from would say, Jorvik.
You are most correct. there is a superb documentary on you tube [but I cannot remember its name] regarding accents. The presenter is a very talented expert on regional dialect, she also plays the WW1 recordings made by a German Officer from a POW camp. These are the earliest recordings of English regional dialects. The Yorkshireman says FAHTER for Father just like German. My Dad used to say WATTER for water [until my Mum would tell him off]. The similarities with North German and Norse are evident. I guess we are all more closely intermingled than is first thought. Southern England came under The French influence more than the north, but even the Normans had Viking roots. I am not clued up on the history of Irish accents, but I used to bank with the Irish bank and what a joy it was to speak with those people on the phone. It was such a beautiful sound , soft melodic and lovely. Little wonder they make such marvelous singers. Also what a magical place York is I suspect you are pleased to live there [although it isn't charmed with the best of weather].
@@piontybird Im from Hull and what happened is the Humber was a natural barrier to the South or if you where travelling North you would go through Leeds people wouldnt venture into the East Riding or the North Riding as much. So the dialect remained for much longer and there is a book on the language of people of Yorkshire back in the 1800s called Yorkshire Folk Talk. Its a vicars accounts of language of Yorkshire folk and Danish folk and I found it a very good read, I also listened to a BBC sounds episode of people from East Riding and they where talking about what it used to be like. If I go to Holland they cant understand a word of how I speak I think the villages have become to middle class that they dont have a Yorkshire accent anymore very posh sounding, being from working class Hull I think a lot of the old accent lives on here more than in the villages now.
I watched a Frisian language video though and we still say Frisian words but their meaning is slightly different its like Frisian is the mother language to Dutch and English the further you go back in time.
The pictures are my relatives in Victorian and early Edwardian times. Sadly none were called Robin and I guess very few people would understand their accent. It is sad that regional accents are dying out rapidly, replaced with a most dire and laughable one. The Yorkshire and Lancashire dialect is the true language from the Viking influence. The Queens English is a corruption of our native tongue
John Dean it's the same in the Kent and south, our accent have completely died out for Queen English , and in midland , potteries accent , black country all dying out
@Danny M I would say its the trend of the young to sound like American TV or pop idols. Most of the Asians and Chinese where I live all still speak with a broad Lancashire accent. I have to turn off the radio and tv at times when someone starts talking in this new ridiculous fashion where everything sounds like a question and its all a screeching whine. Thank god for radio 4 .
i remember as a lad being in school we spoke our parents tongue keeping the old way of saying sommat but our teachers attempted to correct us on our talk, it was something not sommat, it was nothing not nout, speaking in a more dictionary way, but we kept saying it all till they stopped, being from hull we lost our yorkshire tongue in place of a hullish one, loosing old words for a plain way of talk to make the old jobs on thee boats and factories easier and faster, tiss a loss but atleast we kept some old identity, being that most are being wiped out
Thanks for the comment, I remember the same, but was lucky to have a teacher who said most of these dielects were Norse which got me interested at an early age in Dialect.
@@TP-mv6en Thi fuustep's sadly awter't,- Aw used to know it weel,- Neaw, arto fairy-stricken, lad; Or, arto gradely ill? Or, hasto bin wi' th' witches I'th cloof, at deep o'th neet? Come, tell mo, Robin, tell mo,― For summat is not reet! Your footsteps sadly altered I used to know it well Now are you fairy stricken [means taken in with something, love or similar] Or are you very ill Or have you been with the witches In the woods in depth of night Tell Mother For something isn't right
My Dads family were farmers from Yorkshire and my Mums from Lancashire, so the same dilemma but in reverse. Yorkshire has to be one of the most beautiful places on Earth but by eck its cewd.
@@joshfinch9022 I favour Wensleydale & Cranberry . The Yorkshire habit of having it in large amounts with a huge slice of fruit cake tends to do the trick.
Aw used to know it weel,- Neaw, arto fairy-stricken, lad; Or, arto gradely ill? Or, hasto bin wi' th' witches I'th cloof, at deep o'th neet? Come, tell mo, Robin, tell mo,― For summat is not reet! Your footsteps sadly altered I used to know it well Now are you fairy stricken [means taken in with something, love or similar] Or are you very ill Or have you been with the witches In the woods in depth of night Tell your Mother For something isn't right
Gloop I Implore thee, take heed the shoe horn. Periscopal rings of jam shall not pass. Utterly and Zestfull were they queezed. A pinging ensued slowly at first but later it stopped. Snial force 10 and rising. Scrotes and Trones weighed in balance doth sneeze to its call but bellow when wapped up to 7.
tis grand to hear a song in the old dialect, you can hear the old Germanic and and Danish, Yorkshire and Lancashire retaining the historical vocabulary well, taa lad, its a grand listen
Many thanks
What I find very interesting about this tune is the similarities between Yorkshire English and German! I'm not from Yorkshire, but on my mother's side of the family all of the Englishmen were from Yorkshire and Lancashire. I also live in a place named after York, or as the Norsemen we hail from would say, Jorvik.
You are most correct. there is a superb documentary on you tube [but I cannot remember its name] regarding accents. The presenter is a very talented expert on regional dialect, she also plays the WW1 recordings made by a German Officer from a POW camp. These are the earliest recordings of English regional dialects. The Yorkshireman says FAHTER for Father just like German. My Dad used to say WATTER for water [until my Mum would tell him off]. The similarities with North German and Norse are evident. I guess we are all more closely intermingled than is first thought. Southern England came under The French influence more than the north, but even the Normans had Viking roots. I am not clued up on the history of Irish accents, but I used to bank with the Irish bank and what a joy it was to speak with those people on the phone. It was such a beautiful sound , soft melodic and lovely. Little wonder they make such marvelous singers. Also what a magical place York is I suspect you are pleased to live there [although it isn't charmed with the best of weather].
@@piontybird Im from Hull and what happened is the Humber was a natural barrier to the South or if you where travelling North you would go through Leeds people wouldnt venture into the East Riding or the North Riding as much. So the dialect remained for much longer and there is a book on the language of people of Yorkshire back in the 1800s called Yorkshire Folk Talk. Its a vicars accounts of language of Yorkshire folk and Danish folk and I found it a very good read, I also listened to a BBC sounds episode of people from East Riding and they where talking about what it used to be like. If I go to Holland they cant understand a word of how I speak I think the villages have become to middle class that they dont have a Yorkshire accent anymore very posh sounding, being from working class Hull I think a lot of the old accent lives on here more than in the villages now.
I watched a Frisian language video though and we still say Frisian words but their meaning is slightly different its like Frisian is the mother language to Dutch and English the further you go back in time.
England beautiful
No the north is extremely beautiful
@Bmt2216
The North of England, yes.
the north is gorgeous
The pictures are my relatives in Victorian and early Edwardian times. Sadly none were called Robin and I guess very few people would understand their accent. It is sad that regional accents are dying out rapidly, replaced with a most dire and laughable one. The Yorkshire and Lancashire dialect is the true language from the Viking influence. The Queens English is a corruption of our native tongue
John Dean it's the same in the Kent and south, our accent have completely died out for Queen English , and in midland , potteries accent , black country all dying out
@@jameskoziol8508 You are most correct and its a real shame.
@Captinius Blarius Not sure to be honest but I do like the south American accent
@Danny M I would say its the trend of the young to sound like American TV or pop idols. Most of the Asians and Chinese where I live all still speak with a broad Lancashire accent. I have to turn off the radio and tv at times when someone starts talking in this new ridiculous fashion where everything sounds like a question and its all a screeching whine. Thank god for radio 4 .
i'm from Lancaster and you bearly find anyone talking like that but i do understand what they are saying as some people from church speak like that
Like the pictures , song sounds great
+Big Jim Was a worm . Thanks Big Jim
i remember as a lad being in school we spoke our parents tongue keeping the old way of saying sommat but our teachers attempted to correct us on our talk, it was something not sommat, it was nothing not nout, speaking in a more dictionary way, but we kept saying it all till they stopped, being from hull we lost our yorkshire tongue in place of a hullish one, loosing old words for a plain way of talk to make the old jobs on thee boats and factories easier and faster, tiss a loss but atleast we kept some old identity, being that most are being wiped out
Thanks for the comment, I remember the same, but was lucky to have a teacher who said most of these dielects were Norse which got me interested at an early age in Dialect.
My family is still in Yorkshire, wonder if that’s why my Ma named my brother Robin.🤔
YORKSHIRE!!
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Yorkshire till I die, I'm Yorkshire till I die 🎶
wow
I agree with John dean
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@@TP-mv6en Thi fuustep's sadly awter't,-
Aw used to know it weel,-
Neaw, arto fairy-stricken, lad;
Or, arto gradely ill?
Or, hasto bin wi' th' witches
I'th cloof, at deep o'th neet?
Come, tell mo, Robin, tell mo,―
For summat is not reet!
Your footsteps sadly altered
I used to know it well
Now are you fairy stricken [means taken in with something, love or similar]
Or are you very ill
Or have you been with the witches
In the woods in depth of night
Tell Mother
For something isn't right
@@piontybird 😂😂😂 what’s this?
Mum from Scarborough Yorkshire and dad from Lancashire, which side do I choose? Lol
My Dads family were farmers from Yorkshire and my Mums from Lancashire, so the same dilemma but in reverse. Yorkshire has to be one of the most beautiful places on Earth but by eck its cewd.
Crumbly Lancashire cheese or Wensleydale ?
@@piontybird think its gotta wensleydale
@@joshfinch9022 I favour Wensleydale & Cranberry . The Yorkshire habit of having it in large amounts with a huge slice of fruit cake tends to do the trick.
@@piontybird without a doubt
Eggssellnnnnnt
Thank you
Aw used to know it weel,-
Neaw, arto fairy-stricken, lad;
Or, arto gradely ill?
Or, hasto bin wi' th' witches
I'th cloof, at deep o'th neet?
Come, tell mo, Robin, tell mo,―
For summat is not reet!
Your footsteps sadly altered
I used to know it well
Now are you fairy stricken [means taken in with something, love or similar]
Or are you very ill
Or have you been with the witches
In the woods in depth of night
Tell your Mother
For something isn't right
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Gloop I Implore thee, take heed the shoe horn. Periscopal rings of jam shall not pass. Utterly and Zestfull were they queezed. A pinging ensued slowly at first but later it stopped. Snial force 10 and rising. Scrotes and Trones weighed in balance doth sneeze to its call but bellow when wapped up to 7.