Ahoy, me hearties! As you may know, tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. The celebration was founded over twenty years ago in 1995 and is a fun way to raise money for charities by dressing up and talking like pirates. While participants are certainly not advised to take part in any of the gruesome aspects of piracy (no pillaging or plundering, please!), toy sword fights and elaborate costumes are widely encouraged. As well as, of course, showing off your best pirate lingo. While historically, there have been many different pirate dialects, children’s’ stories and franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean have promoted certain words and stereotypes – ...
My home county, the green and historic county of Yorkshire seems to have an inexhaustible repertoire of wonderful phrases, idioms words and expressions. If the dialect weren't tricky enough to comprehend, (in certain parts of Yorkshire the intricacies of their vocabulary might warrant a separate language!) the accents across Yorkshire vary incredibly. My mother grew up in West Yorkshire, where some of the most wonderfully exaggerated idiolects can be discovered and so my sister and I have visited our family there throughout our childhoods. I remember one day browsing the comic book shelves of a newsagents with my Mum, the kindly shop-owner wanted to advise me on which comic book...
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