In Your Words is letting people compare how they speak with Dales residents from the 1950s.
Kevin Frea from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, said people were connecting with their roots through dialect gathered by University of Leeds researchers in the 1950s and 1960s
Kevin Frea from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said language had changed over the last 70 years. Helen Guy from the Keld Resource Centre in Upper Swaledale said sharing dialect with visitors had become an important part of her work. "People just think it's fascinating that up here a ram is not just a tup it's a 'tupe' and a ewe is a 'yow', things like that."
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