"I'm from Yorkshire" : anyone else notice this?

[Odilla]

Why do people from Yorkshire feel the need to tell you that? It is fairly unremarkable given that the collective Yorkshire counties form a large part of England so lots of people are from there.

Yet still they do. Repeatedly. And will shoe-horn this revelation into any given conversation. Eg "I'm from Yorkshire so I don't like spending money on heating". Well yes I'm sure this is true; nevertheless this is not a special circumstance given that most people do not enjoy spending money on heating. Or they take something that is particular to them and still gas on about Yorkshire eg "I'm from Yorkshire so I don't wear blue shoes".

Never have I met a crowd of people so keen to assert common identity yet so unaware as to how common identity actually works. Although ironically that's an identity of sorts.

@Ozgirl75

I’m from Sussex but I can’t really think of any specific defining feature that ties us Sussexians together - otherwise I’m sure I’d be using it. When I was young I went on a 20s holiday and they did this skit taking the piss in a funny way out of where the different airports are (so they had the “mad” Manchester lot, the “why aye” geordies etc) and when they got to Gatwick they had them coming out in white stilettos, dolled up and in short skirts and we were like “they’ve done it again, mixed us up with Essex”

I'm from Sussex and we have our own dialect!

I'm a ¼ Yorkshire!

Hope to move there one day.

Bloody Nora, i had to comment on this thread as my username says everything you need to know. I'll tell yer this for nowt, I am reet chuffed to be Yorkshire, born and bred. Eeh by gum, i tell everyone who will listen. This post is funny, nowt so queer as folk

Of course they want to tell you…it’s the best county

I’m Yorkshire born and bred..very proud of it but I’ve never made an issue of it. Find it weird that anyone would. I find those in the tourist resorts down south much more affected by where they live and the need to tell people.

It's a separate country isn't it

I'm from Lancashire, my friend is from Yorkshire, she constantly tells me and calls me a foreigner even though she now lives in Lancashire 🤣

This describes a colleague to a (Yorkshire, of course) T.

Anyone who brings up Emmerdale, or more accurately Emmerdale Farm as something to be proud of has lost the plot.

Sarf London ( I never left) Dbro is now apparently 'Yorkshire'.

He's welcome.

I am from Yorkshire however would never say it out loud. I identify as being from a particular place, not the region.

You clearly haven’t met someone from Liverpool. They’re worse in that respect than Yorkshire folk.

This is my most favourite thread EVER! :-)
Yorkshire lass, obviously, but I married a furriner from Deryshire. He called me a dee dah. (So those of you from Yorks also will know where I'm from!)

Do any of you do your family tree?
I found a lot of my ancestors were from the Dark Side.. Lancs!! God Bless 'em, I presume they just went where the work was in those days. Pits, steel, flying their whippets..

Every town even in South Yorks has it's own accent - and even those are nothing compared to the way my Grandad & his generation spoke. I used to love hearing old men chat.. I love all the accents in the UK.. I hope the day never comes when we all speak like BBC presenters!

Erm, I only do it when I meet someone else from
there as I live in the South West. If I do, more than I realise - as I constantly get my accent mimicked or copied maybe I’m trying to get in first!

Favorite. thread. ever.
And I’ve no vested interest as I’ve never come across this, but too funny

I think it's that Yorkshire is both a region and a county with the four separate counties in it too (north, west etc). I could be wrong though, I grew up in East Yorkshire (soz lol) and my Yorkshireman grandpa always told me that's how it was.

Yes, James Martin is very bad (boring) on this subject. Yawn, as if we care. Also one of my exes who wasn't born there but claimed to be from there. Again, who gives a ××××

I don’t know, but I have been waiting to meet mine very own Dickon all my life so I personally appreciate it when a lad announces his ties to t’county right from the get go. Tha’ munnot waste no time.

One of my friends is married to a fervent Yorkshire man. He corrects my pronunciation of words and walks out in anger if I say something in Estuary English. I'm not giving up my heritage to avoid annoying him!

Live in Yorkshire. Have done for most of my life.
You can see the tea towels and phrase books with Yorkshire sayings on them. Yet I rarely hear them in real life....

You can hear some people with strong accents - but not many to be honest.

This thread is full of stereotypes.

But Yorkshire is still the place in the UK that I love living in. For its variety, history, landscape and the fact that it's Yorkshire....

Originally from York, but now live a bit further north, though still in North Yorkshire. Just. I am also proud to be a reet Yorkshire lass.

This thread has made me wonder if I do this. I don't think I do, only if asked. Though where I say depends on whose asking. If it benefits me to be from NE then I'm in Darlington, but mostly its North Yorkshire.

I did laugh when I read a PP "What's the best thing to come out of Yorkshire? The M62" Even though its wrong

@Pixiedust1234 I live in North Yorkshire and have done for 38 years. I can abundantly confirm they are indeed separate counties! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

@meloncolic

I really, really want to go to Yorkshire now! Where would you go on your hols if you’ve never been and have a DH and various primary DC?

I live in North Yorkshire and highly, highly recommend York & Knaresborough

I cannot explain why, but I have a natural, bursting exuberant pride in my county. Its natural beauty, good cooking, earthy humour, direct dialect. Don't live there anymore and the politics can get up my nose: but the identity is unassailable.
I'm glad that folk from outside Yorkshire can laugh at us too, because it's funny. From the inside, I think we have the best of England.

Yes, I've noticed Jane Mcdonald announcing she's from Yorkshire on her TV shows when she's on her travels in different parts of the world lol.