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- The Yorkshire dialect
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he dialect is distinguishable from other Northern English dialects. A major feature of the Mancu- 118 nian accent is the over-enunciation of vowel sounds when com- pared to the flattened sounds of neighbouring areas. This is also noticeable with words ending in ally, the Manchester area was known for glottal reinforcement of the consonants /k/, /p/ and /t/, similar to modern speech in the north-east of England. John C. Wells observed the accents of Leeds and Manches- ter. He found them to be similar despite the historic divide be- tween the two sides of the Pennines. His proposed criteria for distinguishing the two are that Mancunians avoid Ng- coalescence, so singer rhymes with finger / ˈ s ɪ ŋ ɡə / and king, ring, sing, etc. all end with a hard ɡ sound, and also that Leeds resi- dents employ "Yorkshire assimilation", by which voiced conso- nants change into voiceless consonants in words such as Brad- ford / ˈ bratf ə d/, subcommittee /s ʊ pk əˈ m ɪ t ɪ / and frogspawn / ˈ fr ɒ ksp ɔː n/. The Mancunian dialect may have originally developed from the old Lancastrian dialects and could have been affected by the vast influx of immigrants introduced to the city during the Indus- trial Revolution, when the cities of Salford and Manchester be- came a port due to the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. Immigrants moved to the city for work opportunities from many parts of Europe, most notably Ireland. /http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_dialect/ The Yorkshire dialect refers to the varieties of English used in the Northern England historic county of Yorkshire. Those varieties are often referred to as Broad Yorkshire or Tyke. The dialect has roots in older languages such as Old Eng- lish and Old Norse; it should not be confused with modern slang. The Yorkshire Dialect Society exists to promote use of the dialect in both humour and in serious linguistics; there is also an East Riding Dialect Society. Yorkshire is generally not as stigmatised as other dialects, and has been used in classic works of literature such as Wuther- ing Heights. Studies have shown that accents in the West Riding |