How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10

Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by pjc50 on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:58AM (#9678082)

Tha = thee, the familiar form of "you". "Only thee-thou's them as thee-thou's you": family and close friends only. This is dying out. I recall my Yorkshire grandmother using it, but only intermittently.

wain't = won't nar = now

These are both on the other side of a vowel shift.

Nowt = nothing. This is a bit of dialect that's still alive, partly due to its use in the TV advertising slogan "Bread wi' Nowt Taken Out".

TV and the class system have long worked against UK regional accents and dialect.

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Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by rahoulb on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:23AM (#9678275)

I live in Leeds now, but grew up in Nottingham (70 miles south, also coal-mining country) and we said "owt" and "nowt" - but pronounced like "oat", not "out".

Also your stereotypical Yorkshire would shorten "the" to "t'" (going down t'pit) - we would drop it completely "guin' dahn pit".

Sometimes I reckon Yorkshire folks think I'm taking the piss the way I say things.

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Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by tragomaskhalos on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:55AM (#9678367)

I was at Uni with a bloke from Burnley, and he used to say "obbat" and "nobbat" (for "owt" and "nowt" respectively), although I've never heard them since.

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Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by raverbashing on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:15AM (#9678118)

Just a quick note, I thought this was all the same thing, as it was on the same line, but now I see the split

"wain't = won't nar = now"

wain't = won't

nar = now

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Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by psykovsky on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:12AM (#9678242)

I only got it after reading your comment. Thanks.

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Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by topynate on Monday June 08, 2015 @06:20AM (#9678132)

The idea that the old thou/you distinction is finally dying out for good at the start of the 21st century genuinely upsets me.

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Re:How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10 by kps on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:26AM (#9679253)

nowt = naught

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