Are you from Yorkshire?

[Siderite]

On more than one occasion recently I have been asked if I am from Yorkshire, based off my accent. It got me thinking. I know Scunthorpe is Lincolnshire and many fly the Lincs flag. However, culturally we do seem more Yorkshire. Hull and Donny seem more like us than Spalding or Boston. Lincoln in between.

[TwoWrights]

Oh dear.

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Northumbiron

[Siderite]

It may pain you as a Hullensian, but my formative memories are more of going into Yorkshire than into anywhere south of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. Shopping – we’d go to Meadowhell or the Yorkshire outlet in Donny. Holidays for me were to Cleethorpes (Lincs, I know) or Brid.

The people who ask if I am from Yorkshire make my eyebrows raise a bit, but it has happened a lot. A few years ago I was in Folkestone and got asked it from someone born in Leeds. When I said no, North Lincolnshire, they said “might as well be Yorkshire.”

[Deereyme66]

Can’t say I have tbh. I remember living in London many years ago at least one southerner said I had a Manc accent. Heaven forbid.

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Siderite

[Iron-awe]

I do like Yorkshire, our daughter lives in Leeds and I have been asked about my accent being Yorkshireish more Donny than west or north Yorkshire. When I travelled down South Lincolnshire in my old job, I’m talking Sleaford and further South than that, the Lincolnshire accent does become more ” carrot cruncher ” bit like North Norfolk. I’m very proud to be from Lincolnshire and I guess the accent thing is always a topic of conversation, I would say Lincoln area is probably the more accurate version of a Lincolnshire accent, always thought the Cods sounded a bit Hully Gully particularly the word work which a lot of Cods pronounce werk.

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Siderite

[Siderite]

Indeed. I have no desire for a Yorkshire absorption, we are Lincs, but in terms of accent and people, I find Scunthonians more like Donny people than the south of the county in particular.

[TwoWrights]

Anyone that thinks a Grimbarian accent is like my Hullensian one isn’t listening. Years ago I was talking to a copper* in Hull, who wasn’t from here, he said he could tell the difference between a west Hull/east Hull accent.

* I’ve never been arrested.

[Northumbiron]

I’ve been told I don’t have an accent until at least three pints of 4.2% abv beer, and then I converse in true North Lincs.

I find the whole accents thing fascinating, even now in the 21st century when movement of the population is commonplace.

Middlesbrough is in the ceremonial county of Yorkshire but a smoggie from the Boro sounds nowt like t’old lad fromt Leyds.

And as for the Darlo accent: it’s got to be one of the worst in England.

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TwoWrights

[TwoWrights]

4.2%, shandy. ;-)

[Northumbiron]

Discovered those Belgian tripels Two?

[TwoWrights]

Northumbiron wrote:

Discovered those Belgian tripels Two?

Nah, Madri from exotic Burton on Trent! ;-)

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Northumbiron

[Northumbiron]

Aye, more Burton on Trent than Trent Alexander-Arnold!

[Iron-awe]

TwoWrights wrote:

Anyone that thinks a Grimbarian accent is like my Hullensian one isn’t listening. Years ago I was talking to a copper* in Hull, who wasn’t from here, he said he could tell the difference between a west Hull/east Hull accent.

* I’ve never been arrested.

I find that hard to believe, I thought it was compulsory that anyone from Hull had to be arrested at least twice in their lifetime.

[Deereyme66]

Some of my best friends are from Hull.

[Iron-awe]

Deereyme66 wrote:

Some of my best friends are from Hull.

Had some great workmates from there back in the day, always up for a laugh.

[TwoWrights]

Iron-awe wrote:

TwoWrights wrote:

Anyone that thinks a Grimbarian accent is like my Hullensian one isn’t listening. Years ago I was talking to a copper* in Hull, who wasn’t from here, he said he could tell the difference between a west Hull/east Hull accent.

* I’ve never been arrested.

I find that hard to believe, I thought it was compulsory that anyone from Hull had to be arrested at least twice in their lifetime.

Patience.

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