England:Yorkshire East Riding, Female70s, recorded 2003 EJS

Reading phrases and definitions from the book, “Learn to Speak ‘Ull” by the Remould Theatre Company in Hull. A member of the East Riding Dialect Society.  Not the Yorkshire most of us think of.  From the Eastern coastal town Withernsea.  Loves pigs.  Literally has piggie figurines in every corner of her home. She reads in Olde English.  90 minute immersion files available.

Dialect, Hull, Yorkshire, humor, translation, slang, colloquialism, phrases: East Riding: Olde English,

Dialects and accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom, as well as within the countries themselves.

The major divisions are normally classified as English English (or English as spoken in England, which encompasses Southern English dialects, West Country dialects, East and West Midlands English dialects and Northern English dialects), Ulster English in Northern Ireland, Welsh English (not to be confused with the Welsh language), and Scottish English (not to be confused with the Scots language). The various British dialects also differ in the words that they have borrowed from other languages. Around the middle of the 15th century, there were points where within the 5 major dialects there were almost 500 ways to spell the word though.