TEST YOUR DIALECT KNOWLEDGE

ANSWERS

1.               b) to earn

2.               a) to smear

3.               b) fist

4.               c) to stare

5.               a) to tear

6.               c) an earwig

7.               a) full of food (but in some parts can mean ‘pompous’, ‘self-important’)

8.               b) iron pan grid

9.               a) wobbly

10.            c) troublesome, painful

11.            a) delicate, squeamish

12.            c) crouched, huddled up

13.            b) illness

14.            a) perhaps, maybe

15.            a) to set, stiffen

12 or over:  a true man or woman of God’s own county!

8-11: Mm, perhaps you need to buy some YDS publications to expand your word power

4-7: You DEFINITELY need to buy some YDS books, tapes or CDs!

Less than 4: Perhaps you come from ‘dahn sarf’ and need to join the YDS to become properly ‘eddicated’!