Re: YAEDT? Syntax in dialects of English (was: Of accents & dialects (was: Azurian phonology))

Just so!
"Thou" and "thy" are still heard, all over the North of England, especially
in phrases like "Tha knows" /Da nOz/ or "I'll sithee" for "see you (later)"
/al siDi/
but I'd suggest that "them their days" is "them there days", i.e., those
days there (in the past)! Some years ago, there was a daytime TV programme
called "Indoor League" which featured pub games like darts, arm-wrestling
and so on, presented by former England star cricketer Fred Trueman - very
Yorkshire! He always ended the programme by saying "I'll sithee!", and
there's the famous folk song (and unofficial national anthem of Yorkshire)
Ilkley Moor bah't 'at - "On Ilkley Moor without a hat"
Certainly here in Norfolk, both my parents always said "five-and-twenty"
when referring to time, never "twenty-five". I say it occasionally, and
still hear it from time to time, predominantly though not exclusively among
older people.
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Subject: Re: YAEDT? Syntax in dialects of English (was: Of accents &
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Hi Eliott,

I’d say, rather than a generally British thing the “I was sat in the pub”
construction is predominantly northern.