A boy at the Grammar School came up to one of the masters and said, 'I've brought you a toarthre sums.' 'Oh, two or three. Very well; let me look.' 'No, sir, not two or three; a toarthre.' 'Well, how many then ?' 'Perhaps six or seven.' From A glossary of the dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield

west riding dialect word of the day: toorthry /ˈtuəθɾɪ/

a few (of something), doesn't mean 2-3 in particular.

from "two or three"

"It wor a toorthry year sin."
"Sho nobbut axed for toorthry paand, but they din't gie her noan."

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I'm surprised to find out that bavarian (austro-bavarian) dialects are considered "vulnerable" according to wikipedia.
Uhmm what?
How many millions of speakers does a dialect need to be considered "safe"?

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west riding dialect word of the day: tooast /tuəst/, older form toist /tɔɪst/.

west riding equivalent to standard "toast"

from old french toster.

"Aw've tooasted few slices o breead."
"He likes his toist reight under-done."
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west riding dialect word of the day: lop /lɒp/.

(n.) a flea.

from old english loppe.

"that poor dog wor covered wi lops."
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west riding dialect word of the day: chaunge /tʃɔ:ndʒ/.

v. to change.
n. change. (alt. choinge).

from old french changier, change

"can yo chaunge me a sovereign? aw'm badly wantin some choinge."
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west riding dialect word of the day: cha /tʃa:/.

tea; the drink, not the meal or time of day. as far as i know, it doesn't show up in older dialect, but it's currently common at least here.

from chinese 茶 through hindustani and cantonese.

"gie's a nice cup o cha."
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Last week we stayed in the village of Wark, Northumberland, which reminded me of an old #dialect gag. Geordie breaks his leg, and when the plaster comes off the doctor says 'can you wark?' to which Geordie replies 'Wark? I canna even waak!'

(work? I can't even walk!)

#accent #geordie #joke

west riding dialect word of the day: maath /ma:θ/.

mouth. the proper word for a mouth; words like gob and cakehoil are less serious and more used for effect.

from old english múþ.

"when I wor little, I once got claated i' mi maath, an one o mi teeth fell aat."
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ottawa-valley wotd:
dictionar(e)
/dɪkɕ(j)ənər, -ɛr/

Noun
- dictionary

> dats hou et's spellt i' d Vally dictionar!

celebratin oor 50t WOTD 🥳

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ottawa-valley wotd
peihol /pejhɔl/
• dialectal form of 'pie+hole'

Noun
- mouth. mostly informal /conveying unserious attitude to the discussion. affectionate unlike general 'piehole', the derogatory term being 'beak'

> stick att i' yer peihol!
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west riding dialect word of the day: loin /lɔɪn/.

a lane.

from old english lanu. cognate with standard english lane

"when's t' caancil gunno fix all t' hoils i t' loin?"
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#British people may scoff at NA #math but really, it makes just as much sense as #maths . And the two dialects aren't even consistent about whether it's singular or plural.

#English #linguistics #language #dialect

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ottawa-valley wotd:
baenk/bynk/boink
/bajnk, bɔjnk, bæːnk/

• post-palatalisation of 'bank'. compare the development of 'yank' > 'yoink' and 'bang, bonk' > 'boink'

> i needs te gòa tu de baenk

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west riding dialect word of the day: hullet /ˈʊlɪt/.

owl, a small owl.

either borrowed from french hulotte or formed from Middle English howle + -et. Compare standard owlet.

"there aren't mony hullets raand here".
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#British and North #American #English have different usages of "have". NAE prefers it as a main verb while BE has more auxiliary leading to constructions we've got much less frequently.

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ottawa-valley wotd:
bogaman
/bóəgə·man/, /-mən/

• dialectal form of 'bo(o)geyman'

Noun
- a violent or sinister ghost or monster who terrifies or kidnaps children.
- a fictitious threat

> he swore he'd sint de bogaman

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ottawa-valley wotd:
gruamach
/grú(ː)əməx/, /-max/

• from Gaelic 'gruamach'

Adjective, Adverb
- moody, depressive, gloomy, drab
- (of weather or atmosphere) overcast, dim, dull

> gruamach oot der, et is

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The stereotypical "bo'le o' wa'er" in #British #English is the result of T-glottalization. But it's not only Brits, North Americans do it too!

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west riding dialect word of the day: lass /las/.

a lass, girl. this is the main word for girl in this dialect, see the map.

perhaps from old norse lǫskr, but unclear.

"I suppoort lasses as likes other lasses."
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west riding dialect word of the day: hafe /e:f/, alternatively hauf /ɔ:f/.

half.

from old english healf. "hafe" is an unusual development, but more common where I live. "hauf" is the expected reflex, common in other places.

"I've on'y hafe enough to afoord that".
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west riding dialect word of the day: theck/thack /θɛk, θak/.

n. a thatch, roof.
v. to thatch.

from old english þæc, þeccan.

"It wor a one-stooary buildin wi a straw thack."
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"Jupyter walked so my kludgepile of dockerized task specific react dashboards could run"

*Hmm, that was the most Agentic sentence I've yet seen here on Bluesky. #jargon #dialect

*There will be more

‪west riding dialect word of the day: lee /lɪj/.

v. to lie, tell an untruth.
n. a lie.

from old english léogan, lyge

"why is he leein abaat this?"
"it's proper funny to tell lees on t'tinternet."
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A robin

Meanwhile in the Cumbrian dialect group on Facebook, the names for birds are being discussed: Spuggie (sparrow); Dykie (dunnock); Scoppie (chaffinch); Stuckie or Shepster (starling) #Cumbria #dialect

west riding dialect word of the day: gawm /gɔ:m/.

v. to take heed, notice, recognise.
n. heed, care, attention.

from old norse gaumr.

"do yo gawm me?"
"dun't tek no gawm on it."
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west riding dialect word of the day: thrang /'θraŋ/, alternatively throng.

adj. busy, crowded.
n. a throng or crowd.

from old english (ġe)þrang.

"yo're fair thrang like."
"look at that gawmless thrang paintin t' raandabaats"
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‪west riding dialect word of the day: maungy /'mɔ:ndʒɪ/

sulky and bad tempered. (similar to "mardy" and "got t' monk on")
idle.
having a skin infection, itchy; now rare I think.

from old french manjue + -y.

"gie o'er beein so maungy."
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