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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Pronunciation" 2009.01.16 (06) [E]

Lowlanders,

I wonder if anyone could enlighten me on the distribution of glottal
stops in Yorkshire dialects?

I have Arnold Kellett's "Yorkshire Dialect Classics" and "Yorkshire
Dialect Dictionary" but sometimes he says the glottal stop is ubiquitous
and other times he talks as if it were just restricted to things like
the definite article. Wikipedia is even less helpful.

I do know Yorkshire people and they seem to me to pronounce their 't's
quite clearly. But this could be because they're trying to speak a
different sort of English to me, or because they're younger than the
generation Kellet is representing. They don't have the necessary
linguistic perspicuity to answer my questions!

Here's a sample from Kellett's "Yorkshire Dialect Classics" (spelling
and punctuation inconsistencies are the original writer's):

T' Moos i' t' Vat

Ther wer yance a moos 'at had gitten it hoal just agaan a greeat vat iv
a brewery. T' vat were full o' liquor iv a gen'ral waay, an yah day t'
lahtle moos chanced ti tumm'l in, an' were leyke ti be dhroonded.

"An' seea', says t' moos tiv itsen, "What mun Ah deea? T' sahds is seea
slaap an' brant Ah doot Ah sa'll 'a' ti gan roond an' roond whahl Ah's
dhroonded."

Bud eftther a bit t' cat pops it heead ower t' top o' t' vat, an' sha
leeaks at t' moos an' says, "What wilt tha gie ma if Ah git tha oot o't'
vat?

"Whya," says t' moos, 'thoo s'all 'a' ma."

"Varry weel," says t' cat, an' seea sha hings hersen doon o' t' insahd;
t' moos varry seean ran up t' cat back and lowp'd reet fra t' top o' t'
vat intiv it hooal, an' t' cat eftther it.

Bud t' moos were ower sharp an' gat fo'st ti t' hooal, an' then to'ns
roond an starts ti laff at t' cat. T' cat wer ommost wahld at that, an'
shoots oot, "Did'nt thoo saay 'at if Ah gat tha oot o' t' vat Ah sud 'a'
tha?"

"Aw," says t' moos, "Aw", shoo says, "Bud fowks'll say owt when the're
i' dhrink!"

Glossary (Yorkshire; East Lothian Scots/Standard Scots; Standard
English)

t'; the; the
moos; moose; mouse
chanced; chanced; happened
yance; yince/aince; once
yah; yae/ae; one
whahl; til; until (cf English "while")
dhroonded; drooned; drowned
seea; sae; so
deea; dae; do
slaap; slippy; slippery
brant; stey; steep
itsen; itsel; itself
mun; maun; must
gan; gaun/gae; go
doot; doot; expect (cf French "je dout")
eftther; efter; after
laff; laff/lauch; laugh
hing; hing; hang
ower; ower; too
sharp; sherp; sharp
lowp; lowp; leap, jump
shoot; shout; shout
reet; richt; right
owt; ocht; anything
fowks; folk; people

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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