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Songs of the Ridings

By FW Mooorman

2019-04-16 13:44:45

In reading this one must remember that these poems were written about 1900. Moorman is describing a world which is long forgotten and totally alien to a modern reader. His peasants no longer exist. Modern farmers would consider the word an insult. ... Read more
In reading this one must remember that these poems were written about 1900. Moorman is describing a world which is long forgotten and totally alien to a modern reader. His peasants no longer exist. Modern farmers would consider the word an insult. I can think of no acquaintance who would consider him/her self an artisan. In the hundred years which have passed since then the Yorkshire dialect has changed quite dramatically. Even the English language has changed so much that I had to look up several footnotes in the dictionary. It has been noted, rightly, by several people from uk.local.yorkshire that many words and pronunciations used are now only found in the Geordie, Cumbrian, or Lowland Scots dialects. Prof Moorman clearly used the dialect as he heard it in about 1900, These must have been lost in Yorkshire over the last one hundred years. Less

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