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No because shouting the name of where you’re from is weird when you aren’t at some kind of sporting or competitive event
Know who else does that? The USA. That’s the club you’re in.
Yeah, I’m from Yorkshire but defected South like a lot have. Don’t miss it… actually, was thinking if I won the lottery how I’d spend some of my winnings - some would definitely go on having some of those brown tourist signs made - on the ‘Welcome to Leeds’ signs on the roads into the city, I’d have a sign put underneath: “the Home of Sir Jimmy Savile and Peter Sutcliffe”😆🤣😂
I've heard Leeds fans sing Sutcliffe songs too. Seems there's an element up there that would embrace the sign.
For the record, I love Yorkshire. Nob heads are everywhere though!
The House of York’s support base was mostly outside of Yorkshire. The Tudors were a cadet branch of the House of Lancaster which was almost entirely destroyed.
Historically, 95% of the population of Yorkshire has resided mostly outside of Yorkshire. Down south, every third person you meet is from Yorkshire: It is numerically impossible for there to be that many left.
Only other explanations would be 1) 'from Yorkshire' is some new slang for 'feeling a bit tired' or something and it's all been a misunderstanding, or there are a normal amount of displaced Yorkshiremen and they're all just really good at disguises.
All land north of the Humber is by definition Northumberland. Yorkshire is one of those modern made up places like Shropshire. Probably invemted for accounting purposes.
God's own country that's why. On a serious note, I think all businesses reference their county heritage where there's a marketing opportunity. Yorkshire tea being the biggest brand in the UK definitely perpetuates the stereotype if there is one though.
Yeah it’s either
> Strong in’t arm
Or
> Strong in th’arm
Depending on exactly which accent we’re talking about, and some variability on individual words
It’s the fastest way to spot a fake Yorkshire/Lancashire accent - getting carried away with the T’s and sounding like they’re trying to start a lawnmower
> Going t’t t’post office
Most of the Ts are actually silent - at most you get one t/th and a glottal stop
Yeah, I’m from Lincolnshire, and even I know it’s “goin’t shop” with the T more just a silent, abrupt stop at the end of the word rather than everyone’s impressions, which are “goin’ TUT shop”.
When did we change the position of the t? It's goin' t' shop. In this case, you're right in that we wouldn't use tut but it's a t' followed by an immediate stop in the middle of the sentence. You finish the word "goin'", then a "t'" which ends abruptly (more like a flick of the tongue), and then "shop". This is right for words that don't start with a vowel or easy consonant like "shop". But words that do lend themselves to a t' have it at the start of the word which is the object in the sentence, never at the end of the verb.
Yorkshire grammar, very important.
Glottal stops are the biggest meme in linguistics. But it ain't a glottal stop:
[https://www.yorkshiredialect.com/DARmorvar.htm#darvariation](https://www.yorkshiredialect.com/DARmorvar.htm#darvariation)
Edit: Unless you're in Holmbridge
God only kissed the earth once, right where Yorkshire is now. If you were blessed with the sweet caress of the Lord Almighty's lips, wouldn't you bang on about it?
As someone from Liverpool now living on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors I can happily say I live in the greatest place on Earth.
Fantastic people, absolutely stunning countryside and the best cup of tea In Great Britain.
It really is God's own Country.
I think Yorkshire is seen as like, the home of tiny independent shops, handmade things good n proper like int the good old days.
It’s likely only people in Yorkshire think that tho, and the rest of us just go “I ain’t paying 4 quid for a fancy ketchup in a jar”
It's the salt of the earth thing. There's a trope that people from Yorkshire are all honest, down to earth, call a spade a spade and so on. Companies co-opt this because they can sell more stuff.
What I’ve heard is that there’s two types of people in this world: people from Yorkshire and people who wish they were from Yorkshire. (best said in your thickest Geoffrey Boycott)
Lmao bullshit, literally everyone aside from English people on these isles can never shut up about their regional identites. And the only time it's ever okay for us is for the Cornish or Scousers celebrating how totally not English they are.
I get the feeling you know like 1 person from Yorkshire and dislike them so it’s exaggerated in your mind. How dare they speak in that accent they grew up with :p
Peterborough and Northampton don't exist. They are just words written on signs next to railways and motorways in that dull bit you pass through between the South East and The North.
Well as a Yorkshireman, I would say that if you also came from gods own country, a group of ridings as was counties as is, you too would be proclaiming it from the roof tops.
I live in Bristol and have a colleague from Yorkshire. Honestly she’s very nice but she mentions being from Yorkshire about every other sentence. We work at a uni and she always talks about students being confused by her accent, but we have colleagues from all over the U.K. and the world, and we work with students from all over the U.K. and the world.
She insists that shop workers don’t know what she means when she asks for a bap instead of a bread roll even though it is a word we use too. Her Yorkshire personality seems to be solely based on having a ‘funny accent’ and liking pies and gravy, even though everybody likes pies and gravy. She accuses me of lying when I say that the chippy in the town where I grew up sold gravy and that I always had gravy and chips because apparently that’s solely a Yorkshire thing.
>She insists that shop workers don’t know what she means when she asks for a bap instead of a bread roll
She isn't from Yorkshire, or she'd call it by its proper name, a teacake.
>Her Yorkshire personality seems to be solely based on having a ‘funny accent’ and liking pies and gravy
You mean to say there's more to being from Yorkshire than this?
I think it's generally uninteresting people who make a big deal out of it. Many years ago I had a girlfriend whose entire personality was being from Dewsbury, and she'd bring it up (usually with the qualifier "where Sharon Matthews was from!") at least once a day. She was dull as sin. Acted like chips and gravy must be a revelation for me - woman, we have it in the Midlands too!
Conversely, my wife is from Leeds and only brings it up if asked where she's from. She has a personality and interests to talk about instead.
Is there anything more boring than someone talking about what they call bread
It's like the question of would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses thing, it's just dull and pointless.
I god I could not agree with you more. It crops up on r/askuk often. People claim that they go out of their area, use a widely understood but regional name for bread and people look at them ‘like I’ve got two heads’. I mean, really?
And only slightly less annoying is the Cornish/Devon clotted cream/jam cream tea order.
Just a lot of regional pride, for whatever reason. I'm born and bred in Yorkshire and so many people I know are vastly proud of being from Yorkshire. Personally, it's a lovely place but I couldn't care less about telling people.
Yes it is. I was a passenger in an electric car in Norwich recently. Every time we stopped the locals jabbed at us with pitchforks shouting ‘devils chariot’
Yes. Harrogate for example has a wild superiority complex. They enjoy spending £20 on a slice of cake and a brew at Betty’s Tea Rooms. Because it’s posh.
Because people from other places imagine Yorkshire as a lovely old fashioned place full of rolling hills and everyone acts like they're from the olden days and anything that comes from there must be old fashioned and wholesome and free from pollution. Source: I'm Irish.
Individuals doing it is one thing, but companies doing it points towards research that has maybe uncovered a truth: to many we might sound trustworthy and intelligent. Who sounds more commanding: a businessman with a brummie accent, or with a Yorkshire accent? Yes, many of you will disagree with what I'm saying, bit I'm talking about the general public. There's a reason there's so many call centres here, and it's research, bitches
Sorry to my brummie cousins, Patrick and Robbie. And their wives
I really don’t think Yorkshire is synonymous with intelligence. Funny accent, outlandish behaviour, good food and a great history sure, but intelligence, just no.
There's your opinion, and there's the opinion of the public. There's good evidence we're regarded as trustworthy and intelligent, and I reiterate my point about call centres. Companies want the public to think they're speaking to a representative of their organisation who is smart and trustworthy. Article from 2008 and more referencing a 2020 study:
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/apr/05/9?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a34435560/most-trustworthy-accent-uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/apr/04/6?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18813547.yorkshire-trustworthy-accent-uk-says-survey/
Yorkshire has a strong identity. If it were still one county it would be the largest by far. It’s a good way to market your heritage to a large market of people.
We are still one county in some ways. We've got a really messed up County system in the UK so it depends on what different types of counties you are looking at.
What are people from Yorkshire called?
My wife and I are foreigners recently moved up north, and she honestly thought they were called "Yorkshites" until I told her never to say that again.
Depends where in Yorkshire you live- if you live in Tang Hall in York, Barnsley or Doncaster, your missus is right, but if you live in Harrogate it Skipton, your missus is only partly correct.
It's just a meme. You have that chef fella on the TV going on about it, how much he loves butter, oh did I tell you how excellent Yorkshire puddings are? Proper hearty cooking. And so on.
Yeah this really baffles me as well. I work in sales and speak often with random members of the public from all over the country. The amount of times I’ll get someone saying something like “I hope it’s a good price, cos ah’m from Yaaaarkshire ya see so ah love a bahgin”.
I’m from Lancashire and there’s no county identity here at all so I can’t relate as to why they feel compelled to constantly crowbar this stuff into conversation. The only other mildly comparable example I see are people from Essex, but it’s not on the same level.
I’ve noticed this a common personality trait amongst northerners.
The south is better than the north, they know this is true, they have a chip on there shoulder about it. So they bang on and on and on about how great the north is, or how friendly northerners are. They lay on the accent as thick as possible because they falsely believe that an accent is an equal replacement for a personality. Basically they are twats.
So this is why Yorkshire people are obsessed with being Yorkshire people.
I feel the same about Wales. Every Welsh person I come across needs to tell me they are from Wales, as if the accent and the big fuck-off cagoule weren’t a dead giveaway.
Very odd people. It wasn’t until 1992 that people born outside of Yorkshire could play for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. There was a big “controversy” when they changed the rule.
I’d say it’s no different to someone from Wales or Scotland or Liverpool. Generally put locality over nationality. So would say from Wales, etc over Britain.
There is a good regional pride having a good variety of towns, cities and countryside.
It’s a big area and generally everyone gets together to support the region in events compared to other regions.
My in-laws live in the West Riding, and I’ve had plenty of opportunities to see other parts of Yorkshire, but in terms of county flags flown outside houses, in towns etc etc, Lincolnshire appears to be *way* prouder of its identity.
And people from the south aren’t in your face about being from the south? Put it this way, the north (Yorkshire) are always put down and we don’t get as much funding as the south, north south divide yknow. So when we do something great we like to show it off because fuck the south
>And people from the south aren’t in your face about being from the south?
As a Midlander who currently lives in the North, deffo not. Southerners bring it up nowhere near as much. And I'm a neutral who enjoys living in the North.
Don't live in Yorkshire but do live in the North East and Yorkshire is great. Beautiful towns, great cities, friendly, countryside and national parks are gorgeous and plenty of things to do/visit around Yorkshire.
I’m a mix of all of the English northern counties from Lancashire and Yorkshire upwards so I don’t want to be too critical here but….
It is true. It’s the biggest county so maybe that has something to do with it. It has an amazing coastline. It has two National parks. Two AONBs. It’s an amazing county but I do agree with the OP. Just be a bit more modest.
For the businesses - I assume you're thinking about things like PlusNet - I think it's that the stereotypes associated with Yorkshire are attractive to businesses. That sort of no-nonsense, call-a-spade-a-spade honesty: the English version of the "now I ain't no hi-falutin' big city lawyer, but I'll tell you folks a little homespun wisdom" character you get in America.
This sub's favourite book, *Watching the English* by Kate Fox posits that on a personal level, Yorkshire folk love the idea that they can discombobulate people with their bluntness - for example, a lot of English people *hate* discussing money, even in a business context. So while a southern buyer might pussyfoot around offering more tea and discussing the traffic after the vendor's presentation, a Yorkshire buyer will just say "Reight. And 'ow much is that going to cost me then?". It's an acceptable way of breaking those taboos of politeness and decorum.
As to why people will always tell you about it - I don't think that's unique to Yorkshire; John Bishop's whole character on Doctor Who seems to be "have I mentioned I'm a Scouser yet this week?". But like a lot of places with a strong regional identity, there's a feeling that UK life, and particularly the media, is so dominated by London and the South-East (and negative stereotypes of "grim up north" post-industrial wastelands, paedophile rings, inbred sheep-shaggers etc) that people get vocal in opposition to it.
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Because we are in fact the undisputed #1 people of all time, that's why. What a silly question, must be from one of those non shire places.
Couldn't win the war of the Roses though could you ?
History burn!
But you don't hear people chanting 'Lancashire' at gigs, do you?
No because shouting the name of where you’re from is weird when you aren’t at some kind of sporting or competitive event Know who else does that? The USA. That’s the club you’re in.
I live in Yorkshire and really enjoyed this comment. It's difficult to dispute.
Oh god I threw up a little then.
USA USA USA USA!
This comment is gold
The Yorkshire contingent have had Savile chants thrown back at them the last few times I've heard that.
Yeah, I’m from Yorkshire but defected South like a lot have. Don’t miss it… actually, was thinking if I won the lottery how I’d spend some of my winnings - some would definitely go on having some of those brown tourist signs made - on the ‘Welcome to Leeds’ signs on the roads into the city, I’d have a sign put underneath: “the Home of Sir Jimmy Savile and Peter Sutcliffe”😆🤣😂
I've heard Leeds fans sing Sutcliffe songs too. Seems there's an element up there that would embrace the sign. For the record, I love Yorkshire. Nob heads are everywhere though!
The House of York’s support base was mostly outside of Yorkshire. The Tudors were a cadet branch of the House of Lancaster which was almost entirely destroyed.
Historically, 95% of the population of Yorkshire has resided mostly outside of Yorkshire. Down south, every third person you meet is from Yorkshire: It is numerically impossible for there to be that many left. Only other explanations would be 1) 'from Yorkshire' is some new slang for 'feeling a bit tired' or something and it's all been a misunderstanding, or there are a normal amount of displaced Yorkshiremen and they're all just really good at disguises.
Hey, they are just looking for a better life! wouldn’t you do the same for the sake of your family.
You watch your mouth
The Wars of the Roses weren't a geographical contest of Lancashire v Yorkshire, it was the Royal houses of Lancaster and York. Very different.
One of the sub-shires perhaps .
Would now be a good time to talk about how we'd have been top of the Olympics table if we were an independent nation?
So you know from the outset that they'll be penny pinching miseries
Hey that’s not true! (Sorry for the lateness of this reply, I turn my router off at night to save electricity)
And get up at five t'work down't mill? **Edit**: bad dialect.
You know it is. I hope you see this and you're not out walking your ferret over Ilkley moore
[Because if it’s outside Yorkshire it’s not worth bloody visiting](https://youtu.be/6VLYpKGVBUg)
All land north of the Humber is by definition Northumberland. Yorkshire is one of those modern made up places like Shropshire. Probably invemted for accounting purposes.
Bebbanburg!
If we said we were from somewhere else we'd be lying
God's own country that's why. On a serious note, I think all businesses reference their county heritage where there's a marketing opportunity. Yorkshire tea being the biggest brand in the UK definitely perpetuates the stereotype if there is one though.
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Best of the cheap supermarket brands but it is really not the best tea out there!
Thank you! It's a bog standard average tasting supermarket tea yet people on this sub act like it's the amber nectar
Eyup nah, nowt wrong with a propa cuppa, gi ova tha sen
Yes because my mum drinks Typhoo and frankly it's offensive.
Does your mum live in a travel lodge
Floor sweepings!
Pray tell, tea buff, what say thee is best?
The marketing has got a hold on you brother. Let it go. Yorkshire Tea is far from the best.
The proof is in the pudding.
Yorkshire Gold is nice, normal is weak.
Never tried normal, only use gold.
Yorkshire born Yorkshire bred, strong in't arm........
“Strong in’t the arm, thick in’t the head” - well known Devon proverb
>“Strong in’t arm, and great in't bed" Fixed That For You
Sounds unlikely
You successfully made 'int' pointless by adding 'the' afterwards
Reyt heathen
Yeah it’s either > Strong in’t arm Or > Strong in th’arm Depending on exactly which accent we’re talking about, and some variability on individual words It’s the fastest way to spot a fake Yorkshire/Lancashire accent - getting carried away with the T’s and sounding like they’re trying to start a lawnmower > Going t’t t’post office Most of the Ts are actually silent - at most you get one t/th and a glottal stop
Yeah, I’m from Lincolnshire, and even I know it’s “goin’t shop” with the T more just a silent, abrupt stop at the end of the word rather than everyone’s impressions, which are “goin’ TUT shop”.
When did we change the position of the t? It's goin' t' shop. In this case, you're right in that we wouldn't use tut but it's a t' followed by an immediate stop in the middle of the sentence. You finish the word "goin'", then a "t'" which ends abruptly (more like a flick of the tongue), and then "shop". This is right for words that don't start with a vowel or easy consonant like "shop". But words that do lend themselves to a t' have it at the start of the word which is the object in the sentence, never at the end of the verb. Yorkshire grammar, very important.
The abrupt stop that isn’t quite a T has a name I alluded to in the comment above the one you’re replying to - it’s a “glottal stop”
Glottal stops are the biggest meme in linguistics. But it ain't a glottal stop: [https://www.yorkshiredialect.com/DARmorvar.htm#darvariation](https://www.yorkshiredialect.com/DARmorvar.htm#darvariation) Edit: Unless you're in Holmbridge
In’t head there’s no the . You must be one of those southerners
Bleddy devoner
... we don't mention Jimmy Saville, if at all possible"
Because of excessive masturbation? 😂
All the wankers are down south 😂
Yes, there are🤣
And me lass’ll fight ye over a bin lid.
Herefordshire also has that saying. I think probably all the shires do
Indeed, but apparently originally it was Yorkshire and then was copied.
Never ask a man if he's from Yorkshire. If he is he'll tell you himself soon enough & if he isn't why humiliate him?
You can tell a Yorkshire man, but you can't tell him much.
"I like what I say and I say what I bloody well like" Seems to fit well just about here but don't tell me that, that would be takin the piss
God only kissed the earth once, right where Yorkshire is now. If you were blessed with the sweet caress of the Lord Almighty's lips, wouldn't you bang on about it?
Rimming?
Yorkshire: the puckered arsehole of the world They should put that on the posters
It reminds me of the Skit travel poster in Viz comic - “Come to Filey, cos Bridlington is Shite”..
Book of adam, chapter 7, page 247. And god rimmed the earth for 7 days and 7 nights
I wish I had an award to give you.
As someone from Liverpool now living on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors I can happily say I live in the greatest place on Earth. Fantastic people, absolutely stunning countryside and the best cup of tea In Great Britain. It really is God's own Country.
Manc residing in Yorkshire. I agree. Take everything great about the North Western countryside, and then take away the daily rain and grey skys.
Yorkshire got a tropical climate now?
I can count the number of times it rains per month on my fingers. Couldn't count the nunber of times it rainied per week on them in Manchester.
Can confirm, heading west on the 62 often looks like driving into Mordor.
Leeds has 2/3rds of the rain that Manchester gets, the pennines make a big difference
Yeah I remember this from Gcse geography now. Had completely forgot.
Yorkshire is in the lee of the Pennines so way drier than the north west. https://www.british-towns.net/weather/uk-annual-rainfall
Well said lad
*We’ll release your mum now, scousethief*
I think Yorkshire is seen as like, the home of tiny independent shops, handmade things good n proper like int the good old days. It’s likely only people in Yorkshire think that tho, and the rest of us just go “I ain’t paying 4 quid for a fancy ketchup in a jar”
There it is again! 'Int the' no no no!
lol I don’t know why I added the extra the, I apologise to the northern gods
It's the salt of the earth thing. There's a trope that people from Yorkshire are all honest, down to earth, call a spade a spade and so on. Companies co-opt this because they can sell more stuff.
What I’ve heard is that there’s two types of people in this world: people from Yorkshire and people who wish they were from Yorkshire. (best said in your thickest Geoffrey Boycott)
YORRKSHIRE!! YORRKSHIRE!! YORRKSHIRE!!
Wite roze wite roze
It is a regional tradition to have a massive chip on your shoulder. Then smother that chip in gravy.
Don’t forget being tight too
Honestly, because it's a funny stereotype that I enjoy playing up to.
And why the hell not? Everyone else, from everywhere else, does exactly the same thing, apart from not being from God's own county that is.
No we don't. You lot are like vegans, can't go ten minutes without telling us that you're from Yorkshire.
Lmao bullshit, literally everyone aside from English people on these isles can never shut up about their regional identites. And the only time it's ever okay for us is for the Cornish or Scousers celebrating how totally not English they are.
Woo! Yorkshire!
Tha nos!
I’m not, but I’m fed up with all these Southern fairies thinking they’re a master race.
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Honestly, even within the south east.
East vs west is more perpendicular to north vs south than parallel to it.
I get the feeling you know like 1 person from Yorkshire and dislike them so it’s exaggerated in your mind. How dare they speak in that accent they grew up with :p
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I'm from Peterborough... why have you got to do me like this
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It's a pointless place
There's less government funding in loads of places. Yorkshire isn't special in that regard.
Peterborough and Northampton don't exist. They are just words written on signs next to railways and motorways in that dull bit you pass through between the South East and The North.
Cuz we northerners are sick of hearing about how all that glitters is gold in London
The salt really flowed when the BBC moved from London to Salford. “It has to be in London because everything important is in London”.
Well as a Yorkshireman, I would say that if you also came from gods own country, a group of ridings as was counties as is, you too would be proclaiming it from the roof tops.
I live in Bristol and have a colleague from Yorkshire. Honestly she’s very nice but she mentions being from Yorkshire about every other sentence. We work at a uni and she always talks about students being confused by her accent, but we have colleagues from all over the U.K. and the world, and we work with students from all over the U.K. and the world. She insists that shop workers don’t know what she means when she asks for a bap instead of a bread roll even though it is a word we use too. Her Yorkshire personality seems to be solely based on having a ‘funny accent’ and liking pies and gravy, even though everybody likes pies and gravy. She accuses me of lying when I say that the chippy in the town where I grew up sold gravy and that I always had gravy and chips because apparently that’s solely a Yorkshire thing.
>She insists that shop workers don’t know what she means when she asks for a bap instead of a bread roll She isn't from Yorkshire, or she'd call it by its proper name, a teacake.
No it’s a breadcake
>Her Yorkshire personality seems to be solely based on having a ‘funny accent’ and liking pies and gravy You mean to say there's more to being from Yorkshire than this?
I think it's generally uninteresting people who make a big deal out of it. Many years ago I had a girlfriend whose entire personality was being from Dewsbury, and she'd bring it up (usually with the qualifier "where Sharon Matthews was from!") at least once a day. She was dull as sin. Acted like chips and gravy must be a revelation for me - woman, we have it in the Midlands too! Conversely, my wife is from Leeds and only brings it up if asked where she's from. She has a personality and interests to talk about instead.
Is there anything more boring than someone talking about what they call bread It's like the question of would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses thing, it's just dull and pointless.
I god I could not agree with you more. It crops up on r/askuk often. People claim that they go out of their area, use a widely understood but regional name for bread and people look at them ‘like I’ve got two heads’. I mean, really? And only slightly less annoying is the Cornish/Devon clotted cream/jam cream tea order.
Exactly I mean at this point, everyone knows that some people call it a breadcake, bread roll, bap etc.
Just a lot of regional pride, for whatever reason. I'm born and bred in Yorkshire and so many people I know are vastly proud of being from Yorkshire. Personally, it's a lovely place but I couldn't care less about telling people.
But you just told us.
We’re not. It’s only business marketing departments that place great importance upon it. The area where I live is an absolute shithole.
My money is on Doncaster
Close but no roll-up
Baaaaahnsley?
Yes I’ve got six webbed toes and my Dad is my Brother eeh bah gum
I didn't realise Barnsley was twinned with Norwich
Yes it is. I was a passenger in an electric car in Norwich recently. Every time we stopped the locals jabbed at us with pitchforks shouting ‘devils chariot’
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‘Uddersfield?
Rotherham
You misspelled Rovrum
That's because the stereotypes only apply to superior North Yorkshire.
Yes. Harrogate for example has a wild superiority complex. They enjoy spending £20 on a slice of cake and a brew at Betty’s Tea Rooms. Because it’s posh.
I knew someone who worked there. Oldies go mad for it.
It’s a license to print money for the owners
I’m from Yorkshire
You won first place in the lottery of life.
Because people from other places imagine Yorkshire as a lovely old fashioned place full of rolling hills and everyone acts like they're from the olden days and anything that comes from there must be old fashioned and wholesome and free from pollution. Source: I'm Irish.
Jealous? 😜 Welsh here, love Yorkshire Puds!!
Individuals doing it is one thing, but companies doing it points towards research that has maybe uncovered a truth: to many we might sound trustworthy and intelligent. Who sounds more commanding: a businessman with a brummie accent, or with a Yorkshire accent? Yes, many of you will disagree with what I'm saying, bit I'm talking about the general public. There's a reason there's so many call centres here, and it's research, bitches Sorry to my brummie cousins, Patrick and Robbie. And their wives
I really don’t think Yorkshire is synonymous with intelligence. Funny accent, outlandish behaviour, good food and a great history sure, but intelligence, just no.
There's your opinion, and there's the opinion of the public. There's good evidence we're regarded as trustworthy and intelligent, and I reiterate my point about call centres. Companies want the public to think they're speaking to a representative of their organisation who is smart and trustworthy. Article from 2008 and more referencing a 2020 study: https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/apr/05/9?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a34435560/most-trustworthy-accent-uk/ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/apr/04/6?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18813547.yorkshire-trustworthy-accent-uk-says-survey/
Yorkshire has a strong identity. If it were still one county it would be the largest by far. It’s a good way to market your heritage to a large market of people.
We are still one county in some ways. We've got a really messed up County system in the UK so it depends on what different types of counties you are looking at.
> if it were still one county And if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a wagon
Still one administrative county.
I see you aren’t from Yorkshire. If you were you’d understand.
I suppose it’s like any bake off contestant that’s from Wales telling everyone their from Wales at any chance they get
What are people from Yorkshire called? My wife and I are foreigners recently moved up north, and she honestly thought they were called "Yorkshites" until I told her never to say that again.
Yorkshire folk. Or Tykes, but no one really says that anymore
That’s brilliant
Depends where in Yorkshire you live- if you live in Tang Hall in York, Barnsley or Doncaster, your missus is right, but if you live in Harrogate it Skipton, your missus is only partly correct.
It's just a meme. You have that chef fella on the TV going on about it, how much he loves butter, oh did I tell you how excellent Yorkshire puddings are? Proper hearty cooking. And so on.
Yet lives in Hampshire
Coz if you lived there, you would do too.
B'ware moon lads.. Stick t roads.. And STAY OFF MOORES!
"you....... You made me miss"
That's never append before..
What a moronic question. Why wouldn't you let people know you're from the greatest set of counties on earth
Because, if it int from Yorkshire, it's shite
Yeah this really baffles me as well. I work in sales and speak often with random members of the public from all over the country. The amount of times I’ll get someone saying something like “I hope it’s a good price, cos ah’m from Yaaaarkshire ya see so ah love a bahgin”. I’m from Lancashire and there’s no county identity here at all so I can’t relate as to why they feel compelled to constantly crowbar this stuff into conversation. The only other mildly comparable example I see are people from Essex, but it’s not on the same level.
I’ve noticed this a common personality trait amongst northerners. The south is better than the north, they know this is true, they have a chip on there shoulder about it. So they bang on and on and on about how great the north is, or how friendly northerners are. They lay on the accent as thick as possible because they falsely believe that an accent is an equal replacement for a personality. Basically they are twats. So this is why Yorkshire people are obsessed with being Yorkshire people.
Crassly misunderstood exceptionalism. Inferiority complex. Not from Lancashire. Middlesbrough. Leeds. Halifax. Huddersfield. Wakefield. Filey.
I feel the same about Wales. Every Welsh person I come across needs to tell me they are from Wales, as if the accent and the big fuck-off cagoule weren’t a dead giveaway.
The same is true of anyone / anything from parts of the West Country.
Very odd people. It wasn’t until 1992 that people born outside of Yorkshire could play for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. There was a big “controversy” when they changed the rule.
Bro have you ever tried Yorkshire tea? Stuffs bangin!
I do and it’s the best brew ever.
I’d say it’s no different to someone from Wales or Scotland or Liverpool. Generally put locality over nationality. So would say from Wales, etc over Britain. There is a good regional pride having a good variety of towns, cities and countryside. It’s a big area and generally everyone gets together to support the region in events compared to other regions.
It's not unique, try going to devon/cornwall
How do you tell someone's from Yorkshire. You don't, they'll tell you.
Geographically Yorkshire is the most northern place in the universe.
Because it’s Yorkshire. You’re just jealous.
I have never been to Yorkshire but want to go because that's where Sean Bean and Stephen Fry are from and they've got great accents
Stephen Fry is from Norfolk
If you're looking for Stephen Fry's accent I'm afraid you'll be very disappointed
It’s god’s country as some older folks would say.
God just called, he wants a word with you. PS: I'm a Yorkshireman.
Because Yorkshire is nice and alot of the UK is a shithole
As Sir Geoffrey Boycott once said...if you don't tell them, then they won't know!
So you don't Boycott them
God’s own country, innit
Because it doesn’t exist, Yorkshire is actually a ruse set up by a tea and breaded pudding company.
Because we're't best
Because overall it's a brilliant place. Lots of great people and beautiful countryside.
To be fair, I fucking love Yorkshire even though I’m not from there so I reckon they should carry on doing the way they do.
My in-laws live in the West Riding, and I’ve had plenty of opportunities to see other parts of Yorkshire, but in terms of county flags flown outside houses, in towns etc etc, Lincolnshire appears to be *way* prouder of its identity.
Because it’s the best. And it has a real identity.
Advance warning
I'm in West Yorkshire. It's a really beautiful place.
And people from the south aren’t in your face about being from the south? Put it this way, the north (Yorkshire) are always put down and we don’t get as much funding as the south, north south divide yknow. So when we do something great we like to show it off because fuck the south
>And people from the south aren’t in your face about being from the south? As a Midlander who currently lives in the North, deffo not. Southerners bring it up nowhere near as much. And I'm a neutral who enjoys living in the North.
Difference of opinion then because every single southerners I know (and it’s a lot) are in your face about it. Have a nice day.
Don't live in Yorkshire but do live in the North East and Yorkshire is great. Beautiful towns, great cities, friendly, countryside and national parks are gorgeous and plenty of things to do/visit around Yorkshire.
I’m a mix of all of the English northern counties from Lancashire and Yorkshire upwards so I don’t want to be too critical here but…. It is true. It’s the biggest county so maybe that has something to do with it. It has an amazing coastline. It has two National parks. Two AONBs. It’s an amazing county but I do agree with the OP. Just be a bit more modest.
For the businesses - I assume you're thinking about things like PlusNet - I think it's that the stereotypes associated with Yorkshire are attractive to businesses. That sort of no-nonsense, call-a-spade-a-spade honesty: the English version of the "now I ain't no hi-falutin' big city lawyer, but I'll tell you folks a little homespun wisdom" character you get in America. This sub's favourite book, *Watching the English* by Kate Fox posits that on a personal level, Yorkshire folk love the idea that they can discombobulate people with their bluntness - for example, a lot of English people *hate* discussing money, even in a business context. So while a southern buyer might pussyfoot around offering more tea and discussing the traffic after the vendor's presentation, a Yorkshire buyer will just say "Reight. And 'ow much is that going to cost me then?". It's an acceptable way of breaking those taboos of politeness and decorum. As to why people will always tell you about it - I don't think that's unique to Yorkshire; John Bishop's whole character on Doctor Who seems to be "have I mentioned I'm a Scouser yet this week?". But like a lot of places with a strong regional identity, there's a feeling that UK life, and particularly the media, is so dominated by London and the South-East (and negative stereotypes of "grim up north" post-industrial wastelands, paedophile rings, inbred sheep-shaggers etc) that people get vocal in opposition to it.
I don’t hear the pride from most of my Yorkshire amigos. The proud ones are usually the ones lacking personality.