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Over on

verlaine's journal yesterday, a thread after my own heart sprung up. And during the course of it, I remembered the Yorkshire language test which I found in the back of a drawer last summer when we were clearing my great-aunt's house in Sheffield.

The original is typed (remember typewriters?), on a single sheet of yellowing foolscap (remember foolscap?), with holes developing along the folds. In itself, it's clearly an artefact of a long-gone time. However, for anyone interested, here it is recreated in LJ-poll format.

(Anyone who wants to play and doesn't have an LJ can mail me their answers. No cheating, where cheating includes but is not limited to: googling for answers, asking Gemma.)

Newcomers to Sheffield might like to test their understanding of the language spoken by some of the local people, and students who will have to on teaching before long will find it an invaluable introduction to the way many of their pupils communicate with each other.

Time allowed:- 20 minutes.

10 correct answer: On your way to being a settler.
40 correct answers: Presumably your (sic) from Doncaster.
All correct: It's time your brushed up your Queen's English.

TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH

(N.B. the 'g' is always hard as in 'got')

[I should point out that I don't have any definitive answers to this, only what I think's correct. I apologise for any typos in the poll; I copied it out in a hurry. And since you can't edit polls, I've copied it out twice already :(]

[Poll #282191]

Update: As suggested below, something else should be taken into account, so can participants post a comment here indicating their Yorkshire credentials ? (ie born-and-bred, lived there a bit, lived somewhere near there, southern pansy, etc).