Yorkshirism

plural Yorkshirisms

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Yorkshireism.

   Her voice was pleasant, quite devoid of Yorkshirisms, and the words she used were interesting and well chosen.

   1962, Phyllis Bentley, “Operation Rescue”, in “O Dreams, O Destinations”: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, section I, page 56

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   [W]e may yet hope to rejoice with our favourites in the brightness of a July noon, and find ourselves, to use a Yorkshirism, ‘in clover.’

   1886 December 9, Black Bee [pseudonym], “Yorkshire Association”, in Thomas William Cowan, editor, The British Bee Journal, and Bee-keeper’s Adviser, volume XIV, number 233, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire: John Huckle; London: Kent and Co., […], →OCLC, page 576, column 2

   As for names, we spell Richard (Dick) Eccles as Dic, because he is at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. It is a Yorkshirism. When he is outside Yorkshire we spell it Dick!

   1978, The Publishers, “Introduction”, in Local Church Practice, Haywards Heath, West Sussex: Carey Publications, →ISBN, page 10