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Paul, Eva and Doreen have lived all or most of their
lives in small farming villages near Helmsley. They're really proud of
their Yorkshire heritage and dialect, and keen to preserve it. Paul is
even a member of the Yorkshire Dialect Society.
In the audio clip we've featured, Doreen describes a
scenario familiar to everyone. The moment when you're with visitors and
you slip back into your own accent, instead of the slightly proper one
you've been using.
When Doreen did this, the Swedish tourists must have
been very confused!
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| Doreen from
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Doreen: "we..I do guided tours you know at Duncombe
Park...stately home round 'ere...and I've often slipped sometimes...we
had some foreigners one day and I sort of talkin' posh..and they looked
out..they were swedes I were talkin' to, an' 'e said "what a lot
of lovely sheep and cattle you have out there...does Lord Fevisham know
how many he has"...I said "I should think not cos they daven't
belang ter 'im"...well poor bloke looked at me...and he just c...it
just came out like that...and you know it does now an' then.
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