Posts by ydsmaster
The “National” back in Yorkshire
Once again, Yorkshire hosts the National Dialect festival at an event in Bradford.The Midland Hotel will be the centre of all things dialectogical on October 16th and over the weekend.…
Read MoreBBC Publicises Accent Bias
July 16th 2026 and the BBC website publicises MP’s comments about dialect discrimination. Here’s the link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2d2mnmqg3o Worth noting that several MP’s added a voice to the growing clamour for…
Read More“Words Matter” podcast by YDS
The Bloomsbury Institute podcast ‘Words Matter’ for May 13th featured a discussion about accents and dialects, Led by Irene Lofthouse, it featured our own Rod Dimbleby and Richard Wilson in…
Read MoreBBC CountryFile & Yorkshire Dialect
On John Craven’s ‘personal’ episode broadcast on 24th August 2025 Yorkshire Dialect Society Chairman Rod Dimbleby gives John some background to how the dialect works The full episode is available…
Read MoreJonnie Robinson Presidential lecture “A Triumph”
The first lecture to be given by Jonnie Robinson following his appointment as President of the YDS took place at the Bradford Mechanics Institute. As Lead Curator of Spoken English…
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