What's a dee-dar ?

[S8 Blade 10]

Think Chesterfield-ers call it us too

[pinklady 10]

its what people call 'broad yorkshire accent ' folk isnt it?

 

huwershiwi, wershiwehersen (who was she with, was she with herself)

[Draggletail 58]

its what people call 'broad yorkshire accent ' folk isnt it?

 

huwershiwi, wershiwehersen (who was she with, was she with herself)

Once heard two women talking on the bus. It went:

 

Oo washiwi? Shiwantwashi?

[the_rudeboy 12]

its what people call 'broad yorkshire accent ' folk isnt it?

It's a term aimed at Sheffielders. It's supposedly how we talk.

[Blue Monday 10]

They say we speak like " Naden dee, what dar doing". Total rubbish of course !

[SSS6 10]

My husband says 'da's been shaggin me cat. Dee daa ****'

 

Don't ask me....

[banjodeano 31]

its true...im from rotherham, and sheffield people do talk dee daa...they pronounce the leters th........witha a D

so if they ...say now then

it sound like Naa Den

[kblade 10]

Yep it's true. Look Sheffield up on Wikipedia and it's explained there too

[melthebell 862]

lol just found it on the wiki

"are also colloquially known to people in the surrounding towns of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Chesterfield as "dee-dars" (which derives from the traditional pronunciation of the "th" in the dialectal words "thee" and "thou", which is now extremely rare to hear).[26] Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse[27] due to the Viking influence in this region."

[minty 69 10]

whats tha mean deedar thee go to spain an order a pint yorkshire style they don't understand us but mancurians they do weigh that one up if tha can.

[DUFFEMS 55]

We moved to Barnsley (but not for long!) when we were first married in 1970, we bought a newly built bungalow where most of the residents were Barnsley people, naturally.

Unkown to us, we were commonly known as the "deedars", something I discovered from a neighbour who explained that Barnsley people considered that Sheffielders couldn't pronounce their "th's". That was bad enough until I embarrassed myself by asking a bus driver if his bus went to CudWorth, the passengers were in uproar as they only know it as Cud'orth! They thought I was very posh, their term for me so I became a "posh deedar", but still a "deedar".

Eventually, the locals came to realise that we Sheffielders also have a sense of humour and can laugh at ourselves, consequently,even though we no longer live there we have remained good friends with them but, they still call us "deedars".

 

Duffems

[Merry_Legs 10]

My OH's colleague said to him once

"Da knows dee mate? all favours I've done dee, dye ought to let me shag dar lass da knows"

I turned him down.