The English language has an abundance of dialects, all with interesting features with a variety of etymologies. In this article, I investigate some of the features of Yorkshire dialect.

We have fun poked at us for using our north Georgia mountain dialect and actually it’s seldom used anymore but I still like the sound of it. Many people dont know that it is the old Elizabethan English brought to the mountains with the Scotch-Irish, English, Huguenots, Quakers, and Germans.

The modern literary dialect of “text speak” is under constant bombardment but this development of English is being battered because of a misunderstanding of its purpose. When we look at how and why it has arisen, we can see why it is a useful tool, not the harbinger of written English’s demise.

Anybody going to Scotland should know about some commonly used Scottish dialects.