# What to call a resident of Yorkshire? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 5, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865 "2009-06-05T18:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/1 "2009-06-05T18:46:31Z")
What would you call someone who resides in the Yorkshire area of England? Is there a generally accepted term? Yorkshirian? Yorkshiran? Yorkie? 😉 If there’s really not a term used, let me know that too. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/2 "2009-06-05T18:49:26Z")
Miserable. Or, more seriously, a Yorkshireman. Or a Tyke. If you are talking about a man, that is. Tyke is much more colloquial, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/3 "2009-06-05T18:53:14Z")
Yorkshireman. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/4 "2009-06-05T18:58:24Z")
Yorkworchesterdorsetshireminsterman. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/5 "2009-06-05T18:59:34Z")
Sir ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/6 "2009-06-05T19:09:16Z")
Yorkshirite/Yorkshireite, however you want to spell it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/7 "2009-06-05T19:11:05Z")
I’ve heard Yorkie used, but I think it was intended to be derogatory. . . ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/8 "2009-06-05T19:12:32Z")
Back in the day when I lived in the West Riding of Yorkshire (more than half a century) ago, it was “Yorkshireman”. (Or “Yorkshirewoman” if you were missing a Y chromosome). ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/9 "2009-06-05T19:36:45Z")
Well, I wanted to describe the rouge elderly ‘Yorshireites’ who have misadventures in _Last of the Summer Wine_. I think I’ll just say Yorkshire villagers. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/10 "2009-06-05T19:42:49Z")
They are definitely Tykes. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/11 "2009-06-05T20:35:00Z")
We would be called tykes by foreigners (anyone living outside of Yorkshire), however, one thing that bewilders Americans is that differant areas of Yorkshire have their own names, accents can change markedly in only 10 miles, even less if you consider Pontefract and Castleford, only 4 miles apart but with differant ways of speaking… You may need to specify whereabout in Yorkshire. From Leeds, you’ll be a ‘Loiner’ - from Sheffield, you’ll be ‘dee-daa’ - from around Featherstone, you’d be a ‘flatcapper’.Those from Hull are often called ‘codhead’s’ If you live in Sheffield you may well call someone from nearby Barnsley a Dingle. You would only use the term Yorkie for someone from York. Donny for someone from Doncaster Some local nickmanes are derived from the nicknames of local football clubs, Spireites are from Chesterfield ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire\_dialect\_and\_accent [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense\_of\_place/dialect\_11.shtml](http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/dialect_11.shtml) There’s a fair few nordic words used around some parts ---
**Author:** ![MrFloppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@MrFloppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFloppy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/12 "2009-06-05T20:43:59Z")
Cloth cap wearing ferret raising black pudding eating northern git! I have cousins in Thirsk and Tad so don’t flame me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/13 "2009-06-05T22:02:00Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > We would be called tykes by foreigners (anyone living outside of Yorkshire), however, one thing that bewilders Americans is that differant areas of Yorkshire have their own names, accents can change markedly in only 10 miles, even less if you consider Pontefract and Castleford, only 4 miles apart but with differant ways of speaking. Localised surnames, too. I’ve got a friend who has a name originating from the Yorkshire Dales - there’s only two entries for that name in my non-Yorkshire phone book, but in her parents’ north Leeds one there’s two pages. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/14 "2009-06-08T16:42:05Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > We would be called tykes by foreigners (anyone living outside of Yorkshire), however, one thing that bewilders Americans is that differant areas of Yorkshire have their own names, accents can change markedly in only 10 miles, even less if you consider Pontefract and Castleford, only 4 miles apart but with differant ways of speaking.. > > You may need to specify whereabout in Yorkshire. > > From Leeds, you’ll be a ‘Loiner’ - from Sheffield, you’ll be ‘dee-daa’ - from around Featherstone, you’d be a ‘flatcapper’.Those from Hull are often called ‘codhead’s’ > > If you live in Sheffield you may well call someone from nearby Barnsley a Dingle. > > You would only use the term Yorkie for someone from York. > > Donny for someone from Doncaster > > Some local nickmanes are derived from the nicknames of local football clubs, Spireites are from Chesterfield > > ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire\_dialect\_and\_accent > > [BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - A Sense of Place - Dialect - 2](http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/dialect_11.shtml) > > There’s a fair few nordic words used around some parts This is completely fascinating. Dee-daa? Codhead? Wow! As an aside, I love everyone from the Yorkshire Dales, based on having read James Herriot’s books 65,492 times when I was a girl. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/15 "2009-06-08T17:29:16Z")
Yorkshiremen, like these rather amusing fellows: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/16 "2009-06-08T19:00:23Z")
You mean these don’t you, [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sfR-6NKCsxU/hqdefault.jpg "yorkshire news") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR-6NKCsxU) This is my favourite, Yorkshire Airlines [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6VLYpKGVBUg/hqdefault.jpg "Yorkshire Airlines") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKGVBUg) The Geoffrey Trueman studio if frghteningly accurate, the Look North studios were exactly like that during the 1970’s. Which bring me to the old joke about time travel, its easy, but you can only go back 30 years, just come up to Yorkshire. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnt9US0j4S8) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ZPHw-vfkc) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Av22axxQ0) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eITWnM_7HM) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mF-JQxkKs0w/hqdefault.jpg "Soccer AM Yorkshire News - Coffee") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF-JQxkKs0w) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hFSi5ZacIQ) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRWoFu1EbI) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z7DpteDKfaQ/hqdefault.jpg "Soccer AM Yorkshire News") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7DpteDKfaQ) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NDEkJcnCC9Y/hqdefault.jpg "Soccer AM Yorkshire News Love joy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDEkJcnCC9Y) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TcvFQFsyZQA/hqdefault.jpg "Soccer AM Yorkshire News") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcvFQFsyZQA) If you want to see other regions, they do sketches in other local variations, the Mancs are among the best. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/17 "2009-06-08T19:16:22Z")
[Henry Higgins] _Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse, Hear a Cornishman converse –_ I’d rather hear a choir singing flat [/HH] ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/18 "2009-06-08T20:46:35Z")
Yorkshite. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-call-a-resident-of-yorkshire/498865/19 "2009-06-08T21:46:01Z")
Now that we’ve had some serious responses, my first thought was: Puddin’