The Guardian attends a session of the six-week course Let’s Talk Tyke! on adrizzly morning in Keighley

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    1 year ago

    I was aware that the further north one goes in Great Britain, the more Norse there is in the local dialect. (Coming from Australia, I grew up speaking an English that has absorbed various Northern words like “dear” for expensive and “ta” (from the Norse “takk”, still used in Swedish/Danish/Norwegian/Icelandic) for thanks, and was surprised that these were uncommon in London.) I didn’t know that Yorkshire eschewed Romance loanwords in favour of a very Germanic practice of building longer words from smaller ones.