Teach Yorkshire accent in’t’schools to prevent it dying out, pleads teacher

A retired teacher fighting to keep the ancient Yorkshire dialect alive has launched a campaign to stop it dying out – by teaching it ‘in t’schools.’

Rod Dimbleby, chairman of the the Yorkshire Dialect Society, is on a mission to save the county’s language as words dating back over 1,000 years are falling out of use.

And he believes it should be taught to young ‘uns the same way foreign languages are.