"Twerk: Where a Yorkshireman goes as employment."
Lancastrians tend to add the "t" to the beginning of words and actually pronounce it whereas in Yorkshire the "t" is usually silent, depending on context, and used as a spacer or almost a pause before saying the body of the following word.
We pronounce work as wurk said quickly and with an extremely short almost silent "r", .
There is a long running soap on ITV over here that has been running since 1972, supposedly set in the heart of the Yorkshire dales and based around the farming community. All the characters are supposedly Yorkshire people however every single "Yorkshire" actor is from bloody Lancashire! Complete with a most definite Lancastrian twang when speaking their lines, which I suppose southern types think the two dialects are the same.
Akin I suppose to Tommy lee Jones trying to emulate Danny De Vito's New York lingo.
As for dialects in general I find them fascinating and love hearing the speaking voices of the locals when visiting their home towns/counties.
People talk of say a "Scouse" or a "Birmingham" accent when in reality the Midlands or Black country, for example, has quite a few dialects each subtlety different and I for one can detect at least three variations of dialect in the Liverpool voice.
In my part of the world the county is split into the four points of the compass, Ie N. Yorks, E. Yorks etc whereas some of us old dinosaurs still refer to the county being split into thirds or "Ridings" as per the old Norse designation (N-E_W no South), my back yard being the West Riding.
The change in the manner of speech is very different in each of these thirds and some of those who live a ten minute drive of my home may as well be speaking Dutch!
My late mother had family who lived around Swaledale in the North Riding and their way of communicating bordered on incomprehensible.
An example being the counting system some older types used when counting sheep, 1 to 10 being...
1 Yan
2 Tan
3 Tether
4 Mether
5 Pip
6 Azer
7 Sezar
8 Akker
9 Conter
10 Dick
All but dead now but music to my ears at least.
All joking aside the south's view of us "OOP north" what ever the hell that's supposed to sound like does get a bit wearing after a time and is largely class based whereas my perception of your country is that how you speak doesn't define an individual in quite the same way as over here, apologies if I'm in error on that count.
A quick example being actors from a certain era who were forced to drop their regional twang if they wanted to work, actors such as Patrick Stewart whose dulcet tones are usually put forward as being the epitome of the upper class English gent when in reality and before the drama school knocked it out of him spoke a broader West Riding dialect than my own.
James Mason being another such from the same Riding and Ian McKellen although Lancashire in his case.
One curious result of all this was when these said actors were put into a regional production of some sort and chosen for the part because of their birthplace couldn't do it to save their lives having had all the dialect knocked out of them by the likes of RADA!
Somehow I cannot imagine the average American actor complying with such a request if desiring of work, not that such a request would made in the first place I would think.
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