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=**Yorkshire**=

[|Flag of Yorkshire]

//Yorkshire within England, showing [|ancient extent]//

=Geography= = =

Physical and geological
=**Geology of Yorkshire**=

Historically, the northern boundary of Yorkshire was the river tees, the eastern boundary was the __ north sea __ coast and the southern boundary was the humber estuary and __ river don __and __ river shef __. The western boundary meandered along the western slopes of the pennine hills to again meet the River TeesIt is bordered by several other historic counties in the form of county durham, lincolnshire, nottinghamshire, derbyshire,cheshire, lancashire and westmorland Yorkshire there is a very close relationship between the major topographical areas and the geological period in which they were formed.The Pennine chain of hills in the west is of carboniferous origin. The central vale is __ permo-triassic __. The north york moors in the north-east of the county are jurassic in age while the __ youkshire wolds __ to the south east are __ cretaceous __ chalk uplands

=Yorkshire= __ historic kingdom __ of northern england and the largest in the united kingdom Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to [|periodic reform]. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographical territory and [|cultural region]The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the mility and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration, such as [|Yorkshire and the Humber] and [|West Yorkshire]

= Toponymy =

The county of was so named as it is the shire (administrative area or county) of the City of york( pronounced locally or York's Shire. "York" comes from the Viking name for the city, [|Jórvík]. "Shire" is from old english scir, and appears to be allied to shear as it is a division of the land. The "shire" suffix is locally pronounced /-ʃər/ "shur", or occasionally /-ʃɪər/, a homophone of "sheer = History = = Celtic tribes = Early inhabitants of Yorkshire were celts, who formed two separate tribes, the brigantes and the parisii. The Brigantes controlled territory which would later become all of the north riding of yorkshire and the west riding of yorkshire. The tribe controlled most of __ northern england __ and more territory than any other Celtic tribe in England that they had the Yorkshire area as their heartland is evident in that isurium brigantum(now known as aldborough) was the capital town of their civitas under Roman rule. Six of the nine Brigantian poleis described by claudius in the geographia fall within the historic county.[|[] The Parisii who controlled the area that would become the east riding, may have been related to the __ parisii __ of //[|Lutetia parisiorum]gaul// (known today as, France).] Their capital was at petuaria close to the Humber estuary.

= Yorkshire today =

[|Lister's Mill], [|Manningham], [|Bradford]. The 19th century saw Yorkshire's continued growth, with the population growing and the industrial rovolution continuing with prominent industries in coal __ textile __ and steel(especially in sheffield). However, despite the booming industry, living conditions declined in the industrial towns due to overcrowding, this saw bouts of __ cholra __ in both 1832 and 1848.[|[]Fortunately for the county, advances were made by the end of the century with the introduction of modern sewers and [|water supplies]. Several yorkshire railway networks were introduced as railway spread across the country to reach remote areas.__ county councils __ were created for the three ridings in 1889, but their area of control did not include the large towns, which became county boroughs and included an increasing large part of the population.[|[] During the [|Second World War]

Pronunciation

 * ~ [|RP English] ||~ Hull ||~ Sheffield ||
 * /ɑː/ as in 'bath' || [a] || [a] ||
 * /ɑː/ as in 'palm' || [aː] || [aː] ||
 * /eɪ/ as in 'face' || [ɛː] || [eː] ||
 * /eə/ as in 'square' || [ɛː] || [ɛə] ||
 * /ɜː/ as in 'nurse' || [ɛː] || [əː] ||
 * /ɪə/ as in 'near' || [eɛ] || [ɪə] ||
 * /aɪ/ as in 'price' || [aɪ] or [aː] || [ɑɪ] ||
 * /əʊ/ as in 'goat' || [ɔː] or [əː] || [ɔː] ||
 * /aʊ/ as in 'mouth' || [aʊ] or [ɑʊ] || [aː] ||
 * /ʌ/ as in 'strut' || [ʊ] || [ʊ] ||
 * /ʊə/ as in 'cure' || [jʊɛ] || [jʊəː] ||
 * /ə/ as in 'comm**a'** || [ɛ] || [ə] ||
 * /ɪ/ as in 'hors**e**s' || [ɪ] || [ə] ||

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 * **Standard English** || **West Riding** || **East Riding** || **North Riding** ||
 * **About** || abaht || aboot || aboot ||
 * **Down** || dahn || doon || doon ||
 * **House** || 'ahse || 'oose || 'oose ||
 * **Boot** || booit || beeat || beeat ||
 * **Fool** || fooil || feeal || feeal ||
 * **Door** || dooar || deear || dooar ||
 * **Floor** || flooar || fleear || flooar ||
 * **Speak** || speyk || speeak || speeak ||
 * **Coal** || coil || cooal || cooal ||
 * **Home** || 'ooam || 'eeam, 'ooam or yam || 'eeam, 'ooam or yam ||
 * **Father** || fatther || feyther or faather || feyther or faather ||

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"Ay up!" says Arthur. "Ay up!" replies Bill. "Ows ta bin?" "Middlin"

What does "middlin" mean? Well actually it means pretty good. If Bill had been feeling down, he would have said "nobbut middlin", or if just OK, then maybe "fair t' middlin", but the unqualified "middlin" is only one step below "Can't complain"! One day my mother met an old lady outside the village shop. "Hello Mrs. Dyson," says mother, "looks like rain.". "Ee love," comes the reply, "we shall atter let it.". The other day I overheard two old ladies as they passed each other in Morrisons. Without any preamble, without stopping, and without any subsequent conversation the exchange went like this - "Int it dreadful?" "It is!"