this is the variety from the west riding of yorkshire (where i'm from).
here are the vowels:
| vowel | examples |
|---|---|
| /ɪ/ | kit, pit, mich, sich, gradely. |
| /ɛ/ | bet, mek, dress, hev, say (sometimes). |
| /ä/ | cat, babby, lass, want, watter. |
| /ɒ/ | oppen, cop, nobbut, frozzen. |
| /ʊ/ | strut, put, up, some, fun. |
| /ə/ | ageän, windo, o, yorkshire, chimla. |
| /ə/, /ɔ/ (hudders.), /ə̟ː/ (windhill) | burd, wurk, church, wurth. |
| /iː~ɪj/ | meet, see, neeght, lee. |
| /eː~e̞ː/, /ɛə/ (windhill) | day, way, age, wait. |
| /aː/, /ɛə/ (hudders.) | baat, aat, haase, aar, saath. |
| /ɔː~oː/, /ɔə/ (windhill) | law, knaw, pause, yaw, awn. |
| same as above, /ɔʊ/ (shef.) | cawm, pawm, all, call. (sometimes written eg. "pome, ole" in shef). |
| /uː~ʊw/, /ɪʊ/ (windhill) | book, look, shoen, shoo (when stressed). |
| same as above, /uː/ (windhill) | stoop, aboon. |
| /ɛɪ/ | reight, meyt, eight, speyk. |
| /äːɪ/, /ɑɪ/ (shef.), /ɑː/ (hudders.) | price, kite, write, rise. |
| /ɔɪ/ | point, coit, coil, hoil, goit. |
| /u.ɪ~ʊwɪ/ | booit, vooice, mooin, blooid, gooid. |
| /ɪʊ/ | chuse, mule, use, futur. |
| /ɪʊ/, /əʊ~eʊ/ (hudders., may have fully merged into /ɪʊ/) | new, few, mew, rule. |
| /ɔʊ/ | tow, thowght, bowght, owght. |
| /i.ə~ɪjə/ | heäd, eärth, cleän, leäve. |
| /eə~ɛː/ | hair, care, ware, bairn. |
| /ɔə~ɔː/ | gorst, born, worn, or (when stressed). |
| /uə~ʊə~ʊwə/ | poärk, stoän, boän, toä. |
the north of the riding has a short /ɪ/ in words like find, wind (both the noun and the verb), and blind, whereas they have the vowel of write in the southern part.
of course my own poems on this site are in it. john hartley was a pretty good writer from halifax who wrote a lot of poetry and prose in dialect; some of it is on project gutenberg.
some videos:
the huddersfield glossary is one of the best resources for looking up words in this dialect. i'm working on making a proper digital transcription, though it'll take a bit. huddersfield dialect has a few differences from the rest of the west riding, so it doesn't fully represent the whole district.
a grammar of the dialect of windhill is a useful description of its unique variety of the dialect. it explains its historical phonology and grammar, and has some transcribed example texts.