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Although, in a world of limited characters, "nowt" can actually be quite useful.

👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞@jacktindale.bsky.social

Minor point but I really hate this performative “y’all” people do to try and appear more folksy. I don’t type in a Yorkshire accent and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.

28/8/26, 8:18 pm1 repost11 likes

Ian Sudbery

@iansudbery.bsky.social

28 Aug

Not only that, but y'all is a perfectly valid pronoun in American English, that means something different from the other ones, and it's weird that modern British English lacks a second person plural pronoun.

Ian Sudbery

@iansudbery.bsky.social

28 Aug

Plus there is nowt wrong with nowt. And plenty of southerners will "write you" rather than "write to you".

Dr_Aust_PhD

@draustphd.bsky.social

29 Aug

Having worked for many years w a mate from Farsley near Leeds the saying that sums up the neighbours from East of the Pennine for me is: "Tha' can always tell a Yorkshireman. But tha can't tell him much."