North York Moors dialect changes every eight miles, says expert
Submitting... “For the past 25 years, I have been out three or four times a week during spring and summer, reciting poems and recounting stories that involve the Yorkshire dialect and its people. “But since last year’s first lockdown in March, I have created a series of videos through Facebook that have had audiences of more than 5,000 and have been watched around the world.” Adam said his first dabble in the world of dialect poetry came when he was seven-years-old as part of a troupe reciting Marriott Edgar’s The Lion & Albert poem made famous by Stanley Holloway in the 1930s. But...
Source: yorkshirepost.co.uk