Letters: Greg Brooks, Michael Pyke and Jem Whiteley on why the use of the glottal stop is a mystery to many outsiders
The presence or absence of any realisation of the definite article in Yorkshire dialects depends on which part of the county you’re talking about. An article in Leeds Studies in English in 1952 was the first to map the fact that in the local dialect of Hull and surrounding areas there is no definite article at all. A friend who grew up in Hull said that, when learning to read, she was intrigued by this little word “the” that didn’t exist in her speech.
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